June 9, 2026 • 42 mins
Andy Muir talks to James Edgar, Chris Giles, Don Morrison, Anna Ramsay, Riley Kennedy and Mark Calder.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Class.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Good afternoon and welcome to the muster on Hakanui Andy
meely here until two o'clock, and of course the show
is brought to you by Peter's Genetics. On a stunning
afternoon down here in Southland win Gore. In particular blue
sky it is called the crisp As you'd expect, we'll
look at the weather shortly.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Day one of National Field Days is underway.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
We go up there a couple of times during the hour,
but nonetheless we continue on no.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Real theme to the music today either.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
A couple of people requested their own songs, so that's
what they're going with. I thought a bit of barnsey
because we can for the intro damn.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Man Hakanui's five day forecast with twin farm teff from
and subtext.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
The proof is in the progeny teff from dot co
dot inze. This afternoon sunshine with calm, variable winds and
thirteen Thursday cloudy are like Northerleies. Five and thirteen Friday
sunny with calm, variable wins again, one and twelve Saturday
sunny with variable winds on the horizon yet again two
and ten and Sunday afternoon showers are breezing or westerly
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seven and fifteen. Jesus pretty warm for being towards the
middle of June, keep saying it so. Temperatures Clinton eight
point three, hearing at seven point seven, Northern south On
seven point five, Riverton ten point three, tian Now seven,
Titteroa nine, Winter and seven point three and Woodlands eight
point eight before we put the paper down. James Edgar
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of mar Flack cats off the show this afternoon, followed
up by Chris Gilds. He's on the ground up at
National Field Day, so we catch up to see how
things are going. Don Morrison, willow Bank farmer talking about
the positives for the red meat sector at the moment,
and you're interesting to get his sorts around how he
think thinks things are looking as we go into spring
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mode for prices anyway, because how he's always been pretty
reserved around this. We'll see if his thinking has changed.
Anna Ramsey from darien Z's on the show. Then Riley
Kennedy had a business desk on the ground up in
field Days, talking how everything's going there from the business
side of things. Mark calder A PGG writes and gives
a rundown about fleets sale. I'll take a breath before
(02:13):
a combust and we'll start the l Next to James ego,
this is the muster and we'll hear until two o'clock.
Thanks to Peters genetics.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
She cull me Lucien.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
James egg is farming at Mala Flat and joins us
once again on the muster. Good afternoon, James. Unfortunately the
tea pain song you requested wasn't there, so Blake shouting
was your backup choice.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Yeah, no, I have recording the clictic sort of music taste.
But yeah, apparently from my stuff on the more extreme
jor of Hockinoy, we can take from that what you will.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Welcome to my playlist, cheapers. I can't judge.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
No, absolutely, you've got to. It's actually been beautiful weather
this year. But some of the years, especially when you're
in the second or third day of wet, wet weather,
gear and muddy, muddy boots. You know you don't want
to be listening to something too slow, do you. Sometimes
you're just going to put a bit of dance music
on or something with a bit of pep and just
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rip into it, don't you. But I mean, you can't
can't argue this year, and yeah, well I don't even
know what to say about the autumn. And now we're
of course heading into middle or June and we haven't
even had a snowfall with mile Flat and that's quite incredible.
And to be frank, we're actually still growing grass, which
is currently six weeks longer than what i'd budget, you know,
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on any sort of conservative estimate. So yeah, yeah, can't, can't,
can't complain a rule.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Are you concerned about the lack of snowfall or is
it a case of it is what it is?
Speaker 5 (04:01):
No long Honestly, I don't waste a single second worrying
about the weather. We just play with what we can
do because I know there's absolutely zero I can do
to adjust it. So we went through a feed budget.
I think I touched it last time. So we've now
fed out about well, feeding out about ten tons of
grain at one of the farms. The other two. The
feed budgets looking really nice, which was great, and the
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stock are looking really good. They're loving it, so yeah,
we'll just enjoy it what happens. And look, we know
it's it's going to get wet and cold. That's what's
going to happen, and it's just a matter of when.
So we'll just enjoy the good times.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Well, you can go two or three weeks about taking
the leakings off and that's when it gets That is
when it gets frustrating.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Oh absolutely, And there's more more than likely that it's
going to happen again. But at least when you get
a nice start right at the start of the winter,
and you get that stock condition right at the start
of the winter and you have enough crop and yeah,
just work through from there and the rest of the
ones of the beef you can throw a lot at
you and you can handle it.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
So what's a plan of attack at the moment. Then
if the weather's like this, you just continue doing what
you're doing. But you've got shorts on.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Yeah, yeah, definitely, No, we just keep feeding the feeding
the animals, and yeah, just keep working through about every
week or so, we just keep looking at the feed budget,
double check it, see how we're tracking. Yeah, and try
and get those jobs out of the road. It's always nice,
I've always found, especially with the.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Fodder beat and the cattle, if you can get you know,
if you can get a third of the way through
the paddic before you're make any mud. It just seems
to make the whole season easy. But if you have
money up those first two or three breaks, sometimes it's
a long winter. You just you know, the animals are
just just don't really get on top and they don't
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have that back break that's nice and dry. And yeah, look, honestly,
the gone really well, so you can't argue.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Andy, it's speaking of kettle over in Texas, some outbreaks
of screw worm. It sounds as this is back on
the horizon, which is bad news for the Texas kettle industry.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Yeah, no, fascinating, we're talking about it off the air there.
It's one thing that I picked up. So the screw worm,
it must be a fly, which is larvae, which it
lays its eggs on either wounds or mucous membranes, so
like the nose and stuff of kettle. And then the
larvae they burrow into the skin and then basically eat
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you know, eat them until they're pupa and then hatch
themselves out of flies. So I can come over the
Mexican border from South America, so that's quite interesting, so
that it can actually kill a kettle beast. But what
they've got there. And I've had two or three cases
now in Texas, and it's interesting, Like I'm sure on
farm has got some ramifications, but it's a bit of
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I say, Canada and the other states of America have
blocked the kettle going anywhere going out of Texas and
then round the site where the screw where it was found.
They've got a twelve mile zone and every single animal
that goes in now that zone has to get checked
for screwworm, so even your dogs and cats and like
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any livestocks. I thought that was interesting, but they have.
Actually they thought they'd made it go extinct in America,
and what they did there was basically released a heap
of flies that were infertile, and then they bred with
the fertile flies, and basically then the offspring became infertile.
So right as we speak, right now, if you look
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it up, the US government is flying planes over with
teens and teens and millions of infertile flies screwworm flies,
and they're dumping them out of the back of a plane.
That's just crazy, isn't it. Andy.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
It's a bit like getting fly striking the hoggers, but
one hundred times worse than what you'd imagine.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Yeah, absolutely find it fascinating that that's the way they do.
Then apparently they have some sights on ground where they're
actually hatching in fertile lava from these flies. They're basically
going to put you know, hundreds of millions of flies
out that are infertile, and they're going to put them
out into the Texas environment because to try and breed
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with the wee few flies that are actually fertile at
the moment, causing all the trouble. And then, yeah, absolutely
absolutely fascinating. But I think it's certainly going to be
we watch in terms of cattle kettle price, maybe I know.
So Texas has got twelve point five million head of
breeding cows, which is the most of any state in America,
(08:41):
and interestingly, the next state, which is Arkansas, it's got
about one point nine two million breeding cows. So yeah,
Texas has has probably got a third of the breeding
cows in the whole United States.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
If you go and google it online, it's got the
makings of a horror movie.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
It's hideous.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Yeah, this could be quite quite major.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
And what they actually do a lot of the feeder
cattle in America because they have the industrial scale feed
lots and a lot of the kettle actually come from
Mexico and Kender, so they bring them over and then
put them into the big feed lots.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
So they've actually had the border closed in America with Mexico,
so they're big feed lots over there are actually struggling
to get carves to put on the feed, so it's
made their yea. Yeah, the price of feeder stairs and
heifers basically go ballistic, so this could be quite interesting
going forward.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Now. A bit a good news story that came out
from via the National Party this week or the government
they are is the doubling of the Q two National
Trust allocated baseline funding from four point two to eight
point five million.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Dollars, which is a real good news story as well.
This this needs to be celebrated.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Yeah, absolutely. I mean the arguments they are that eight
point two million dollars isn't all that much, but it
needs to be celebrated. Absolutely. But I didn't realize listening there.
I think the Kelly two Land Trust, which is on
private New Zealand farmland, it's something like the second biggest
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estate outside Dock. I think we conservation land because it's
all been yeah to say, one with the trustee you
sign it through to the conservation estate basically with the
Kelly two Trust here, So yeah, it sort of needs
to be celebrated. And yeah, I guess sometimes when farmers
are getting a bit of a hard time, probably does
need to be noted that just how much of the
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conservation estate and how much farmlands now being conserved by
the farmers in New Zealand. So yeah, congratulations to everyone
involved with that.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
The money's going towards surveying, legal work and fencing and
most other things. So, like we say, we've got to
celebrate the good stuff when it happens.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Oh, absolutely, And yeah, i'd argue I've seen I think,
as a generalization, the stuff in the ky two National
Trust would be of a lot higher standards in some
of the medium dockland that I've seen in my opinion,
being careful around those words of course, Andy, but I
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have seen a lot of dockland, and I've seen a
lot of I've seen a lot of corse and broom
would be more one comment.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Good only James, you enjoy this afternoon and Longmader's will
price keep continuing. I think Andy, I knew you had
to get a week.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Pop them there.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Absolutely good.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Only James, We'll see no telling. James Egger farming at
moa flat the screw where I'm in Texas. Like James
c what does it mean for the cattle price here
in New Zealand. We've seen great prices at the moment?
Was to say it doesn't continue? Time will tell on
that one. We're a wait a mystery creek next, all
going to plan. Chris Giles catches up. This is the Muster.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
Dragon drava me in Texas where the.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Welcome back to the Muster Sultan's a swing as a
song by dire straight swinging his way up to Auckland
and down the mystery creek as Chris Giles. We catch
up with Chris whenever It'll be normally up at field Days. Now,
good afternoon, mate. You're involved in Southern field Days. You're
gone up there in a personal capacity. Firstly ground conditions
and the likes. How does it compared to other seasons
or other years.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Would you say, oh, it's beautiful up here today, Marcross
this morning. Nothing in Hamilton back out at the field
days sort of went down into it a little bit frozen,
but what a cracker day. Not a not a cleven
sky as far as I can see.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
So you're not having to wear gun boots or anything
like that. All these politicians and one of these shiny
new red bands, they're not being seen.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
No, no, you can probably tell the town to where
the red bands that come out once a year. But
beautiful weather.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
It's not bad.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
It's a bit like Southern field days. The first day
is normally the busiest for a lot of sales.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Yeah, yeah, a lot of people out talking to a
few of the people, and Earon's having a lot of
people people around and good yarns so far.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
So you were saying before we came on near Chorus
that leads a strong South and condigent up there as well.
I mean when you go to mist recruit, you think
you'll be able to walk ten meters not bumped into anyone,
you know.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
No, no, that'd be very opposite. You walk ten meters
and it's always suppered to talk to. So we have
seen Bugal, we've done the big shed that talk about
in there and a half yet through that and every
other site was someone from Southam and uh made a
way into open country for lunch and a bit of
a cheese cheese tasting and haven't got much further.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
How would you describe the mood of what you've seen
so far? I mean, it's got ideas, so would have
to be positive, wouldn't it.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
It is it is every everyone that is pretty positive
down talk to and you can you can see it
as you walk around.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Now regarding technology, is that something you'd look at when
you go up there? I mean, is that something that
takes your eye when you go to an.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Event like this.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yeah, that's normally where I come up to see what's next,
what we could be doing in the next fifteen years.
For example, the place we went first was the Innovation
Tent and the first thing that caught our eye is
weighing calves using your phone. Basically just take a photo
and uses lighter and tells you other way to the calf.
(14:27):
So ah, some of the things, Yeah, are you amazing
during pasture with your cell phone? Now you just point
and tell you how much I mean weighing calves now
and everything all your other apps, resolutions and everything's done
off your phone these days.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
I think the other thing is is the innovations that
you have at field Days here at way move up there.
It's a real big deal and all the school kids
in particular, they embrace it.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Yeah, yeah, they do. Just a couple of schools that
get right behind it. And when you walk in, you
get to vote on your your favorite wealth and so
there's the winner of the categories, but then there's also
a crowd favorite, so that it's in a big marquee.
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And then there is an innovation trail, so you actually
make your way around the field Days using their interactive map,
and you can see all the different innovations on people's
sites too.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Is there anything in particularly you're looking at that you
can bring back to why murmi, would you say? Or
is it a case just comparing apples of apples?
Speaker 4 (15:36):
We're such completely different field days down there, some people
have you, aren't they We're just chill, be right, we'll
make it the best. And yeah, it was up here.
It's sort of a lot down there. It's more of a
farming one up here. It's sort of town and farming,
so very different.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Would you say it's a lot more structure up there
as such?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Yeah, you're definitely definitely there.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Any big purchases on the horizon for the Giles queen.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
No, if my wife's listening, but we'll see you never
have too many tractors, right.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Once again, I received I've been not saying that.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
But that's the barometer. That's how you measure the success
of these field days. Are the big ticket items and
what gets moved. Ch Us, that's just the reality.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
Yeah, it does.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
No, I'm sure they'll sell a few tractors over the
next couple of days.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
So how long are you up there for?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
We're coming back for Friday. So we're here today on
the Wednesday, and I'm allowed to Thursday. If we talked
too much and don't see.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Anything, sorry, but that's not going to happen.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Oh, I can see myself coming back tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yes, are you going to have to mate? Hey, we'll
let you carry on.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Good to catch up and you enjoy Mystery Creek.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Then Benny.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Chris Giles of course involved with the Southern Field Days
and he's up at National Field Days a mystery Creek
which is happening right through until Saturday. Back down south
next Don Morrison Farms at Willow Bank. Let's have a
chin wag in the corner.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
We hear the scene, feel all of this.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Come to me, went on, This is the muster ond
Hakanui just for Hallie Morrison, Don Morrison through the Barricades
by Spendale Ballet, a very popular group. But how are
you telling me it's the most popular song, and truth
be known as not one that you hear every day,
good afternoon.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
Oh god. You look, you don't hear it on main media.
But it was their last number one hurt and it
was their biggest selling single, so you know that big
killer voice to Tony Hedley. So yeah, thank you for
that as a leader and appreciate it. Well, here we go.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
It's getting grunty. That's a good power ballad. Power ballad.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
Yes, I just played a bit more on that radio station.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Andy Julie notes that I'll put that through to Aaron
Gardner if he's listening.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Look, you're based at willow Bag, not far from God.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Truth be known.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
You've been pretty spoilt with this weather though, Howie.
Speaker 8 (18:27):
And this has just been an outstanding, an outstanding lead
into the winter. You know, great great fun is to
the autumn in terms of just you condition for for
mating and hot mating, things like that. Just getting those
last lambs off the place and now the last week
in fact, today the last five US is going on
the fodder beat. I just find it quite a certifying season.
(18:50):
You've tidied up the whole the whole rest of your
year activities and it's now really the settling down and
the setup for next year and to be able to
go into the winter with us and really good condition
and got the final yields back and all the crops,
feed budgets done and things are looking positive. We've got
a surplus which is always important to our tea budgeteers,
(19:12):
so you've got to build up your sleeves at the
at the end of the winter. And yeah, they're just
seeing pretty good andy.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
So as far as those crops, you've got plenty of
eating by the sounds of it.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
Yeah, the some of the yields surprised me, but the
swedes are back. Of course they've planted of it later
in the season then the fire to beat, but they
were more thort around that fourteen ton, which is a
sort of an average crop of swedes, where some of
the other years we've had some pretty high yields up
to twenty but we've had fire to beat yields back
in you know, high high twenty twenty seven twenty eight
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ton and that that gives you a lot of eat
and come in the winter time. So we sit with
the swedes, then the fire beat because because while we've
recent years have had some pretty big, sweet yields, it
just shows you're having the combination of the trees, a
bit of insurance and and you know, one of our
biggest insurance is here is having that feed for the
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one heavily reliant on that winter feed for three months
for all the animals. So you put a piece of
mind when.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
You get there, and the yields are pretty.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Good, a good way to look at this time of year.
It's not just the transitioning of the animals onto the
winter crops, but like you alluded to, Howie, it's a
transitioning into winter moat on farm, just full stop.
Speaker 8 (20:25):
Yeah, you get up in the morning each day and
you know what your routine is. It takes us about
two hours to get everything see it here. So after
smoke o, we've actually got some time we can devote
to tiding things up. Still got a lot of strength
all work and fixing and tensing to do after that storm.
But we're just you know, we're getting some good afternoons
and days on that, and the place is just starting
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to look a bit tidy. It looked to you know,
I don't like things when they look a bit scruffy
and trees are down, but there just hasn't been the
time to clean it up till now. But I'm certainly
enjoying that a.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Lot of people have talked about that.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
How we the fact that they're getting the opportunity finally
to go and stop proof a few of these fences,
fence lines as such, because the number of trees that
came down, it's just been something you've had to put off.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Yeah, it has been, and you know with actually, you know,
to be fair, Andy, we've had to spend a lot
of money already on the excavators and the bigger diggers
that came in to also felled a few more trees,
and then the fencing, so you know, there was a
big sort of for I'd hope to say that there's
been a nice big slice and they're operating costs this
year which are hopefully not reoccurring, but the realities of farming,
(21:35):
you're always going to get something thrown at you. So
probably been a good, good financial year to be able
to you know, just sort of where that that extra
cost or with it?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
So how far above budget did your lamb cheat end up?
Speaker 8 (21:51):
Everything's above above, Like I think I budgeted one hundred
and fifty dollars the lambs andy where they've basically been
two hundred and two hundred plus. While I budgeted what
I got last year and I doubled what we got.
We got up to high sexes for for the you know,
six six sixty six seventy cleen for U fleece and
lamb fleece. That was outstanding. Ram sales were great. Crop
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yields came in bang on ever read and this is
the barley and slightly higher than I budgeted. So you know,
all in all, it was just a really good season.
I'd say my first really good season and probably thirty
odd years of farming Andy Well.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Used yesterday at Launviull cracked three hundred dollars.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
Yeah, pretty stunning. And you know what I'm hearing from
you know, both the meat and the milk companies is
that the world just looking for that quality save protein
and you know there seems to be you know a
little bit of a confidence around those prices. Certainly when
you see those winter contracts helped the lamb. There's obviously
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some confidence going forward. You know, I'm I've been farming
forbently thirty years on him time, Ok years, I've had
some pretty crap years, and this is the been the
one really good year, and we just fingers crossed we
can get another one.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Now, this is interesting coming from you, Howie, because you're
always just a little bit cynical about the lambschedel heading
into spring. But you're pretty well healed in the industry.
You'll have a bit of an idea of what's going on.
What are you hearing.
Speaker 8 (23:21):
I'm just I'm just having confidence, confidence tempered worth. Don't
make promises because you just look at that look, I
just go back to volatility world. You know, who knows
what's going to happen. We're looking at that launch of
you know, even us on the stock market, and from
what I'm hearing the S and P everything's back because
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a lot of a lot of other stocks are selling
out because people to having a stake in that. So
we're actually seeing a bit of a quite a downturn
in the market in the last few days, which people
perhaps wouldn't have expected. You know, seeing anything like that.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Impacts the US Market's an interesting one given all these
people are on these diets require them to eat a
lot of lamb and beef.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
And the life.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Considering that any of these hamburgers put themselves into this
situation in the first place.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
Yeah, look at me. They love their burghers and in
the States has no doubt about that, and certainly even
for the lamb meat outside of the beef, a really
really strong market. So I've actually been surprised with the
economic you know, hardship they've been tasting in the stakes
that that demand has held up so well. So I
guess you'd actually argue that this is actually quite a
(24:31):
good point, the fact that demand and pricing has still
been strong despite the uncertainty and the volatility. That one
can only hope if things settle down a little bit,
you know, that's why we're going to sustain those prices.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
How do you see will going?
Speaker 8 (24:47):
Look? Well, I hope the trend would continue. I've actually
said for quite a long time, Andy, it's the one
thing that I have been optimistic about that in the
I've said in the not necessarily the near future, that
media to long term. I think wall is going to
be a very viable product with a lot of end users.
So I see I see Wall only getting better.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
So it's fair to say the positives are outweighing the
negatives at the moment.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I mean just throughout the sector.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
Oh look, I think when you come off a season
like this, Andy, you can't help but be positive. And
that's right through the dairy and the red meat sector.
You know, if you're a great grower or a hops
growing telling a little bit of a different story. But certainly,
certainly for our sector and the primary industry, it's been
a good year, so we have to celebrate it. And
(25:36):
I guess you've got to be optimistic and hope things
are going to carry on. But the philosophy is, you know,
I'm not going to spend any money until I've got it,
So you know, you look at the budgets next year,
there's a lot of things we'd like to do that
you know, we're still going to have to wait until.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
We get there.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Tony Brown's been resigned by the end zed Arbor not
for two years time. This is a very positive thing
for New Zealand rugby moving.
Speaker 8 (25:59):
Forward, pertexally good foresight end Yeah, lockcom every time there's
been a change, his name pops up as how good
he would be in the mix or who he could
be in the max with. So no, I think that's
that's great foresight. And you know, I think the you know,
the Inded I refuse just probably doing a little bit
of a bit of job. You know, they've got some
(26:20):
new people in there, and I like a lot of
what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
There's always optimism when these change. How we will let
you carry on, always got to catch up.
Speaker 8 (26:28):
Yeah it is Indy, look forward to next time.
Speaker 9 (26:30):
We com and reve we were just in Howie Morrison
at Will They have been coincidentally as well, the South
and Staggs jersey has been launched for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
It's an absolute doozy.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
It's a throwback to nineteen ninety three and one thing
about working them with Peladin it's not one hundred bucks
to buy Stags gear, especially the playing.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Jersey or the replica jersey which is.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Really really cheap. So well under the Stags carrying on
that deliciative how next from Derry in zid Edna Ramsey.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
You're listening to these.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Welcome back to the Master Foo Fighters as the music
for a Wednesday, Mila, you'll appreciate that. And a Ramsey
of darien Z joins us next based in Belle Cloth
and a good afternoon and welcome to the master.
Speaker 10 (27:29):
Hi Andy, how are you getting on?
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yeah? Really good. Look I was speaking to you briefly
off here, and it turns out you were a lockdown
tourist who never left the country.
Speaker 10 (27:40):
Yes, yep, certainly. I arrived just six years ago, which
was two weeks before lockdown happened, And yeah, it certainly
changed my plans quite drastically. I'd only planned to stay
here for two months working holiday. I was fortunate to
have a job lined up, but yeah, the two months
is turned into six years and permanent residence.
Speaker 8 (27:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
So what was it like being a tourist when it
all kicked off and all the unknown was around the
COVID situation?
Speaker 10 (28:06):
Oh it was pretty weird time, to be honest, and
quite honest, I was quite oblivious to what was actually happening,
as all backpackers are. I certainly wasn't watching the news.
So yeah, all of a sudden it was lockdown and
a lot of people that I was traveling with had
to get flights home, which was pretty difficult, but I
was very lucky. I had a job lined up and
a friend to stay with, so yeah, I was in
(28:27):
a very fortunate position. And I was working up in
Canterbury at the time as a large animal vectech, so
I was still out in farms and just carrying on
as normal. But it certainly changed the pace of my
travels down that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Was that the catalyst for you remaining in New Zealand
like you have?
Speaker 10 (28:44):
Yeah, well, i'd certainly gave me the opportunity to explore
and hedal into a lot more, had a bit more
time on my hands, and yeah, I just fell in
love with the country and then my work, and one
thing's just led another into and.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Still hear well, congratulations it's going to be a plot
of it. I mean we think makes six years ago,
how and where we are now it is a lifetime agoy. Literally, Enna,
you're above Dairy and z statured there recently. What's your
all the such?
Speaker 8 (29:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (29:09):
Yeah, so I started there a month ago. So my
role is really I'm the middleman. So I'm the link
between Dairy and ZID and the farming community. So I'm
bringing together the research, research tools and resources that we
have available into the region in a way that's sort
of practical and useful on farm. This is done through
our field day events, discussion groups, and practical hands on workshops.
(29:30):
But it's also about listening and building relationships. So we're
responding to what farmers here actually need and helping them
navigate challenges whilst improving their farm performance.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
So all these events that are planned, that's your brain
child more or less, or you the link between the
events and the farmer.
Speaker 10 (29:48):
Yeah, yep, I'll be bringing the events the area. I'd
just like to say, actually, at the end of this month,
I will be bringing a few different events across South Icago,
sort of informal discussion groups. What our I really like
to do is bring together the farmers. One is a
social aspect, but also to allow farmers to bring their
ideas and thoughts to the table. I know Darien said,
(30:09):
we've had a wee bit of a gap in this
area for a while. So really I just want to
know what farmers would like to see, Darien said, bring
to this area, and then I can make that happen.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
So lots of events that are coming up before calving.
Is there anything on the horizon as such.
Speaker 10 (30:24):
Yeah, Well, actually have a very few busy weeks ahead.
Tomorrow we have our once a day discussion group in
Northern Southland that's kicking off at the wend Inside Hall
half as twelve tomorrow. Next week we have quite a
big field day event down in Brydon. That's our Sustainable
Dairy Growth so we're looking at a farm that's converted
to dairy, that got solar panels, feedpad and quite a
(30:47):
large wetlands area tooburdins. Yes, yep, yep, that's happening next
week nineteenth of June. And then the thirtieth of June.
We've got our people Expo events down at the Ascot
Hotel alongside the Dairy Women's Network and that's really aimed
at sort of farm owners looking at the succession planning
(31:09):
and then across doing in July we also have our
Calving Smart which are hands on workshops across the region
which everyone's welcome to come along to those.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Right, let's look at the succession planning because it's well,
just to be honest, it can be a basketcaset situation
or it can be i wouldn't say simeless, but a
lot easier than what you might anticipate what can people
expect from this workshop, for example, because it's a hell
of a subject it is.
Speaker 10 (31:35):
Yeah, And I think it's just it's bringing in some
guest speakers and some people that have been through it themselves,
and also Jane, you're who's our specialist people person guru,
I should say, and just bringing in ideas and it's
just getting people talking about it and putting thoughts and
ideas out there for them to think about.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
So are you wanting people to register for these events?
We just turn up? What's the best way to go
to bed Lena?
Speaker 10 (31:58):
Yeah, definitely a register if you can, but also just
turn up on the day. All the details are on
the website. Or if you'd like to know more, do
just give me a ring, Happy to discuss about it.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
So have you been back home since COVID or have
you just started in New Zealand as such?
Speaker 10 (32:13):
Oh yes, no, no, I've definitely been back home a
first dave here for about two and a half years,
and then once COVID all passed by, I did go
home for about a year's stint, had to get some
bees assorted and then came back. But I tried to
be at home about once a year. I'm heading back
at the end of July. Got three friends getting married,
so that'll be good time to catch up with everyone.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Where about in Scotland are you from?
Speaker 10 (32:35):
So I'm down in the Southwest Corner, which is actually
the largest staying area in Scotland. It's very similar to Santago,
very coastal hilly and we can grow a lot of
grass there too.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Is it warm with inself attaga?
Speaker 10 (32:49):
No, no, we probably get about double amount of bread.
So yeah, when people complain about rain here I can sympathize,
but also yeah, they haven't been to Scotland. I don't
think if complain of it here.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Anna Ramsey of Derry and Zed. Great to chat on
the Muster. You enjoyed this afternoon.
Speaker 10 (33:06):
Thanks Andy, you too, Anna Ramsey.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Of Derry and Zed. Back up to Mystery Creek.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Next from business Desk we catch up with Riley Kennedy.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
We're sol.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Welcome back to the Muster. We're a way back up
to Mystery Creek where we are catching up with Riley
Kennedy at a business desk. Righty, firstly, congratulations you've been
nominated for the Primary Industries New Zealand Awards regarding excellence
and agricultural journalisms. So yeah, firstly, that's a pretty good
accolade if you can go through and get the chocolates.
Speaker 11 (33:48):
Yeah, yes, good afternoon from mister Creek. Yeah, yes, yes
it is, and thank you. I was actually just saying
to someone this morning that I feel like if I
win it, I feel like I've picked it. Last night, tog,
I'm finding you career. Perhaps I'll go farming while they
returns are so good if I end up winning the support.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Have you contemplayed the milking Cows?
Speaker 11 (34:08):
I didn't and score holidays, but I live on the
north shore of Auckland and I have computer hands, so
you know, maybe I'm not quite cut out.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
For those towny hands aren't quite cut for it now, Riley,
from what you've seen. We spoke to Chris Charles earlier,
who's a panda from down South out there giving us
an update around the vibe. As far as the business
side of for your days, it's a massive messive thing.
Speaker 11 (34:31):
Oh, it is huge. I was just looking at some
figures this morning. There's just over eleven hundred exhibitors and
thirteen hundred sites or something around that it's sold out,
and that has never happened in recent history. There's never
ever been There's always been empty site, you know, But
about a month ago they sold out, And I think
there's a very clear reflection of the sentiment in the
(34:54):
sector at the moment. People have here, the our sellers
and supplies and retails are really trying to leverage the
fact that people just have a bit more cash to spend.
And you can see and I'm sitting up in the
media center now looking down on everyone, and there's just
people everywhere it is, and it's going to be a
mass of four days and're only we're only not even
(35:14):
halfway through the first one.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
So people are there to do sales. That's what it
comes down to.
Speaker 11 (35:19):
Trying to get a bargain. I might go shopping at
some point myself, but I've got a bit of work
to do between now and then.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
As far as it's India Free Trade Agreement, I've seen
Indian delegations there this week. What does that mean for
the FTA as such?
Speaker 11 (35:33):
Yeah, Actually I had lunch of that Indian delegation on
late last week and it's quite interesting. Actually were not
the only delegation, but delegation to you, I think there's
even u kmps. There's quite quite a lot in Brazil America. Actually,
just talking to an American, something like eleven hundred visas
(35:53):
were issued for people just to come to fields from
around the world. But this Indian delegation quite I would
say high power, not high pound. But you know it's
quite significant for them to turn up here and have
a look round. Given me was a month ago we
signd this FTA with them, and they're really down here
(36:14):
trying to look at I guess trying to get an
idea of what we do, how we do it, and
I'm sure we'll be sending people in the other direction.
I noticed just below the media center here there is
the Indian consulate and Auckland. They're here. You can go
down there and have a look and explore the India
from the boostoot in the pavilion, which is quite interesting.
But there is actually a very significant international prison here
(36:37):
that I don't think it's been here in recent years.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Why would you say that is Is that just because
of the mood of farming and all these FTAs and
the likes.
Speaker 11 (36:44):
Yeah, I'd say so. And also I think we're probably
just growing a little bit more prominently offshore We're quite
a stable country.
Speaker 9 (36:53):
If you look.
Speaker 11 (36:54):
You only need to pull over the Wall Street Journal
every morning, so again and say all the world is
and I think our reputation is has grown quite significantly,
just in Singapore two or three weeks ago, and it's
quite evident that we're we're not we're quite small, but
our presence is growing in the world. And when you've
got an event like Field Days and you want to
come to New Vielle and why not kill two birds
(37:15):
with one son, so to speak, and come to come
to Field Days and see what New Zealand has to offer.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Sixty six overseas exhibitors last year at must be create this.
She's seventy three, So there's a detail straight off the bat.
Speaker 11 (37:27):
Yeah, it's I do think she just walked past the
Germans that before. I think the Irish might be here again.
It's it's pretty big. And of course some of those
are you know, you've got overseas brands are they're actually
here trying to sell stuff. But you've also got you know,
ambassadors and it's going to there's a European lunch tomorrow
which I'm going to be interesting to see what New
(37:49):
Zealand product they use versus the European that they wont
turned down a European wine, that's for sure. But yeah,
it's it's quite interesting seeing the amount of international people
that have come to the field DEAs and also there's
a Hamilton Airport, small world. Hamilton Airport is now an
international airport again, albeit only to Sydney and on Jetster
(38:11):
if that's what you're fancy. But it's probably will help
people coming direct the field death.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
So there's no fog around or anything, those concerns are
bit of laid for twenty four hours.
Speaker 11 (38:22):
Yeah, no, I turned up here and I was one
of the first through the gates at six a m.
And there was not a not a bunch of fog anywhere.
But it was as an Aucklander, I would say there
was quite quite a thick frost, but it wasn't really
but it went away pretty quickly.
Speaker 8 (38:37):
But there was.
Speaker 9 (38:37):
It was.
Speaker 11 (38:38):
It was a bit frosty. I was just talking to
someone and said there was one degrees and when he
drove in, So yeah, it's pretty cold, but no, there's
no beautiful day out there. Now there's you don't need
to gum boots and I actually left my rain jacket
in Auckland, so I was quite happy about that when
I saw it was the forecast. So hopefully it's days
that way and it's meant to. I don't think it's
meant to. There might be a bit of rainfallcast on Saturday,
(38:58):
but to be all over there is.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
That how you auckland as operate, You attempt fai do
you think it's going to rain, You leave the jacket
at home. You did that in South and you get
bidden in the bum twice over.
Speaker 11 (39:08):
Yeah, Well in Auckland you've got to be paired four
seasons of one day you can. You can go to
work and pop over the bridge and it'll be a nice day,
and then you come home and it's absolutely pelting down.
So usually I've trained this LF pretty well, but I
just had a bit to bring, so I got I
got halfway to got to the Bombays yesterday for our
stop on the way down, and I realized I bugger
(39:31):
off left from bloody jacket at home. But unless it's
not needed, and I'm sure given on at field days,
if I need a jacket they'll be I could just
go purchase one.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Unless the already of the situation, that's probably the best
place to go and buy a jacket if you need to.
Speaker 11 (39:47):
Let's be honest, exactly, perhaps their employers need to pay
us more and might be able to go out and
buy a real flesh one.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Yeah, you've got the very important job of chauffeuring Jamie McKay.
Is it a bit like Smithers Whalon Smithers having to
can't Montgomery Burns?
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Or is he pretty good?
Speaker 8 (40:02):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (40:03):
No, Actually, there's a bit of a way of responsibility
on me chauffeuring co martwa around. But I wanted to
stand at the arrivals call at the Auckland Domester people
with a suit and taile and one of those signs
saying mister McCain. But I didn't give myself organized enough.
But he's keeping us all under control of the Airbnb,
(40:25):
that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Well, that's the thing about field days, aren't you know?
From my experiences of being up there, it's a great chance,
like the rural media in general, just to connect and
catch up.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
It's pretty cool, it is.
Speaker 11 (40:36):
It's good that it's pretty good. I've been down to
a few of our competitors and throwing them a bit
of stick, but it's very good.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Hey, Riley, Thanks very much for your time on the Muster.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
As always, once again, congratulations for your nomination for that award,
and yeah, good luck with the chauffeuring around field days
of the KMATOA.
Speaker 11 (40:56):
Yes plenty of John.
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Speaker 1 (41:41):
He go there and what did he go on to
get for him?
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Once again a stock selling time thanks to PGG. Right so,
and we find out about the bow Cluth sale which
is how this morning. Mark Callers on the line get
a mate, Howie traveling?
Speaker 12 (41:52):
Yeah, get yep, I'm pretty good. So things are still
very positive in the In the market prime using fine
leans and stalk stoolumes is very sought after, especially getting
into the prime lanes tops for two fifty to two seventy,
mediums two hundred and two forty, and your lottering primes
are one eighty to two hundred. Checking into the store
aims up front there one fifty four to one eighty
(42:15):
four pty good Ford Stores, mediums one forty to one
fifty four, and your tailand stall lams are fifty one
hundred dollars. Getting into the years bagvus three hundred and
forty to two hundred and seventy five dollars, mediums one
eighty to two hundred, and your Thailand is there a
sevent eight one hundred and twenty few rams still coming
through the works, were any seventy dollars one hundred and
(42:36):
thirty dollars, But yeah, let's us at they are quot
thro anst sunny day cheez time went on.
Speaker 5 (42:42):
It is
Class.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Good afternoon and welcome to the muster on Hakanui Andy
meely here until two o'clock, and of course the show
is brought to you by Peter's Genetics. On a stunning
afternoon down here in Southland win Gore. In particular blue
sky it is called the crisp As you'd expect, we'll
look at the weather shortly.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Day one of National Field Days is underway.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
We go up there a couple of times during the hour,
but nonetheless we continue on no.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Real theme to the music today either.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
A couple of people requested their own songs, so that's
what they're going with. I thought a bit of barnsey
because we can for the intro damn.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Man Hakanui's five day forecast with twin farm teff from
and subtext.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
The proof is in the progeny teff from dot co
dot inze. This afternoon sunshine with calm, variable winds and
thirteen Thursday cloudy are like Northerleies. Five and thirteen Friday
sunny with calm, variable wins again, one and twelve Saturday
sunny with variable winds on the horizon yet again two
and ten and Sunday afternoon showers are breezing or westerly
(01:08):
seven and fifteen. Jesus pretty warm for being towards the
middle of June, keep saying it so. Temperatures Clinton eight
point three, hearing at seven point seven, Northern south On
seven point five, Riverton ten point three, tian Now seven,
Titteroa nine, Winter and seven point three and Woodlands eight
point eight before we put the paper down. James Edgar
(01:30):
of mar Flack cats off the show this afternoon, followed
up by Chris Gilds. He's on the ground up at
National Field Day, so we catch up to see how
things are going. Don Morrison, willow Bank farmer talking about
the positives for the red meat sector at the moment,
and you're interesting to get his sorts around how he
think thinks things are looking as we go into spring
(01:53):
mode for prices anyway, because how he's always been pretty
reserved around this. We'll see if his thinking has changed.
Anna Ramsey from darien Z's on the show. Then Riley
Kennedy had a business desk on the ground up in
field Days, talking how everything's going there from the business
side of things. Mark calder A PGG writes and gives
a rundown about fleets sale. I'll take a breath before
(02:13):
a combust and we'll start the l Next to James ego,
this is the muster and we'll hear until two o'clock.
Thanks to Peters genetics.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
She cull me Lucien.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
James egg is farming at Mala Flat and joins us
once again on the muster. Good afternoon, James. Unfortunately the
tea pain song you requested wasn't there, so Blake shouting
was your backup choice.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Yeah, no, I have recording the clictic sort of music taste.
But yeah, apparently from my stuff on the more extreme
jor of Hockinoy, we can take from that what you will.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Welcome to my playlist, cheapers. I can't judge.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
No, absolutely, you've got to. It's actually been beautiful weather
this year. But some of the years, especially when you're
in the second or third day of wet, wet weather,
gear and muddy, muddy boots. You know you don't want
to be listening to something too slow, do you. Sometimes
you're just going to put a bit of dance music
on or something with a bit of pep and just
(03:26):
rip into it, don't you. But I mean, you can't
can't argue this year, and yeah, well I don't even
know what to say about the autumn. And now we're
of course heading into middle or June and we haven't
even had a snowfall with mile Flat and that's quite incredible.
And to be frank, we're actually still growing grass, which
is currently six weeks longer than what i'd budget, you know,
(03:50):
on any sort of conservative estimate. So yeah, yeah, can't, can't,
can't complain a rule.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Are you concerned about the lack of snowfall or is
it a case of it is what it is?
Speaker 5 (04:01):
No long Honestly, I don't waste a single second worrying
about the weather. We just play with what we can
do because I know there's absolutely zero I can do
to adjust it. So we went through a feed budget.
I think I touched it last time. So we've now
fed out about well, feeding out about ten tons of
grain at one of the farms. The other two. The
feed budgets looking really nice, which was great, and the
(04:25):
stock are looking really good. They're loving it, so yeah,
we'll just enjoy it what happens. And look, we know
it's it's going to get wet and cold. That's what's
going to happen, and it's just a matter of when.
So we'll just enjoy the good times.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Well, you can go two or three weeks about taking
the leakings off and that's when it gets That is
when it gets frustrating.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Oh absolutely, And there's more more than likely that it's
going to happen again. But at least when you get
a nice start right at the start of the winter,
and you get that stock condition right at the start
of the winter and you have enough crop and yeah,
just work through from there and the rest of the
ones of the beef you can throw a lot at
you and you can handle it.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
So what's a plan of attack at the moment. Then
if the weather's like this, you just continue doing what
you're doing. But you've got shorts on.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Yeah, yeah, definitely, No, we just keep feeding the feeding
the animals, and yeah, just keep working through about every
week or so, we just keep looking at the feed budget,
double check it, see how we're tracking. Yeah, and try
and get those jobs out of the road. It's always nice,
I've always found, especially with the.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Fodder beat and the cattle, if you can get you know,
if you can get a third of the way through
the paddic before you're make any mud. It just seems
to make the whole season easy. But if you have
money up those first two or three breaks, sometimes it's
a long winter. You just you know, the animals are
just just don't really get on top and they don't
(05:55):
have that back break that's nice and dry. And yeah, look, honestly,
the gone really well, so you can't argue.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Andy, it's speaking of kettle over in Texas, some outbreaks
of screw worm. It sounds as this is back on
the horizon, which is bad news for the Texas kettle industry.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Yeah, no, fascinating, we're talking about it off the air there.
It's one thing that I picked up. So the screw worm,
it must be a fly, which is larvae, which it
lays its eggs on either wounds or mucous membranes, so
like the nose and stuff of kettle. And then the
larvae they burrow into the skin and then basically eat
(06:34):
you know, eat them until they're pupa and then hatch
themselves out of flies. So I can come over the
Mexican border from South America, so that's quite interesting, so
that it can actually kill a kettle beast. But what
they've got there. And I've had two or three cases
now in Texas, and it's interesting, Like I'm sure on
farm has got some ramifications, but it's a bit of
(06:55):
I say, Canada and the other states of America have
blocked the kettle going anywhere going out of Texas and
then round the site where the screw where it was found.
They've got a twelve mile zone and every single animal
that goes in now that zone has to get checked
for screwworm, so even your dogs and cats and like
(07:16):
any livestocks. I thought that was interesting, but they have.
Actually they thought they'd made it go extinct in America,
and what they did there was basically released a heap
of flies that were infertile, and then they bred with
the fertile flies, and basically then the offspring became infertile.
So right as we speak, right now, if you look
(07:37):
it up, the US government is flying planes over with
teens and teens and millions of infertile flies screwworm flies,
and they're dumping them out of the back of a plane.
That's just crazy, isn't it. Andy.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
It's a bit like getting fly striking the hoggers, but
one hundred times worse than what you'd imagine.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Yeah, absolutely find it fascinating that that's the way they do.
Then apparently they have some sights on ground where they're
actually hatching in fertile lava from these flies. They're basically
going to put you know, hundreds of millions of flies
out that are infertile, and they're going to put them
out into the Texas environment because to try and breed
(08:20):
with the wee few flies that are actually fertile at
the moment, causing all the trouble. And then, yeah, absolutely
absolutely fascinating. But I think it's certainly going to be
we watch in terms of cattle kettle price, maybe I know.
So Texas has got twelve point five million head of
breeding cows, which is the most of any state in America,
(08:41):
and interestingly, the next state, which is Arkansas, it's got
about one point nine two million breeding cows. So yeah,
Texas has has probably got a third of the breeding
cows in the whole United States.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
If you go and google it online, it's got the
makings of a horror movie.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
It's hideous.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Yeah, this could be quite quite major.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
And what they actually do a lot of the feeder
cattle in America because they have the industrial scale feed
lots and a lot of the kettle actually come from
Mexico and Kender, so they bring them over and then
put them into the big feed lots.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
So they've actually had the border closed in America with Mexico,
so they're big feed lots over there are actually struggling
to get carves to put on the feed, so it's
made their yea. Yeah, the price of feeder stairs and
heifers basically go ballistic, so this could be quite interesting
going forward.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Now. A bit a good news story that came out
from via the National Party this week or the government
they are is the doubling of the Q two National
Trust allocated baseline funding from four point two to eight
point five million.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Dollars, which is a real good news story as well.
This this needs to be celebrated.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Yeah, absolutely. I mean the arguments they are that eight
point two million dollars isn't all that much, but it
needs to be celebrated. Absolutely. But I didn't realize listening there.
I think the Kelly two Land Trust, which is on
private New Zealand farmland, it's something like the second biggest
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estate outside Dock. I think we conservation land because it's
all been yeah to say, one with the trustee you
sign it through to the conservation estate basically with the
Kelly two Trust here, So yeah, it sort of needs
to be celebrated. And yeah, I guess sometimes when farmers
are getting a bit of a hard time, probably does
need to be noted that just how much of the
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conservation estate and how much farmlands now being conserved by
the farmers in New Zealand. So yeah, congratulations to everyone
involved with that.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
The money's going towards surveying, legal work and fencing and
most other things. So, like we say, we've got to
celebrate the good stuff when it happens.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Oh, absolutely, And yeah, i'd argue I've seen I think,
as a generalization, the stuff in the ky two National
Trust would be of a lot higher standards in some
of the medium dockland that I've seen in my opinion,
being careful around those words of course, Andy, but I
(11:14):
have seen a lot of dockland, and I've seen a
lot of I've seen a lot of corse and broom
would be more one comment.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Good only James, you enjoy this afternoon and Longmader's will
price keep continuing. I think Andy, I knew you had
to get a week.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Pop them there.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Absolutely good.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Only James, We'll see no telling. James Egger farming at
moa flat the screw where I'm in Texas. Like James
c what does it mean for the cattle price here
in New Zealand. We've seen great prices at the moment?
Was to say it doesn't continue? Time will tell on
that one. We're a wait a mystery creek next, all
going to plan. Chris Giles catches up. This is the Muster.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
Dragon drava me in Texas where the.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Welcome back to the Muster Sultan's a swing as a
song by dire straight swinging his way up to Auckland
and down the mystery creek as Chris Giles. We catch
up with Chris whenever It'll be normally up at field Days. Now,
good afternoon, mate. You're involved in Southern field Days. You're
gone up there in a personal capacity. Firstly ground conditions
and the likes. How does it compared to other seasons
or other years.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Would you say, oh, it's beautiful up here today, Marcross
this morning. Nothing in Hamilton back out at the field
days sort of went down into it a little bit frozen,
but what a cracker day. Not a not a cleven
sky as far as I can see.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
So you're not having to wear gun boots or anything
like that. All these politicians and one of these shiny
new red bands, they're not being seen.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
No, no, you can probably tell the town to where
the red bands that come out once a year. But
beautiful weather.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
It's not bad.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
It's a bit like Southern field days. The first day
is normally the busiest for a lot of sales.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Yeah, yeah, a lot of people out talking to a
few of the people, and Earon's having a lot of
people people around and good yarns so far.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
So you were saying before we came on near Chorus
that leads a strong South and condigent up there as well.
I mean when you go to mist recruit, you think
you'll be able to walk ten meters not bumped into anyone,
you know.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
No, no, that'd be very opposite. You walk ten meters
and it's always suppered to talk to. So we have
seen Bugal, we've done the big shed that talk about
in there and a half yet through that and every
other site was someone from Southam and uh made a
way into open country for lunch and a bit of
a cheese cheese tasting and haven't got much further.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
How would you describe the mood of what you've seen
so far? I mean, it's got ideas, so would have
to be positive, wouldn't it.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
It is it is every everyone that is pretty positive
down talk to and you can you can see it
as you walk around.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Now regarding technology, is that something you'd look at when
you go up there? I mean, is that something that
takes your eye when you go to an.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Event like this.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yeah, that's normally where I come up to see what's next,
what we could be doing in the next fifteen years.
For example, the place we went first was the Innovation
Tent and the first thing that caught our eye is
weighing calves using your phone. Basically just take a photo
and uses lighter and tells you other way to the calf.
(14:27):
So ah, some of the things, Yeah, are you amazing
during pasture with your cell phone? Now you just point
and tell you how much I mean weighing calves now
and everything all your other apps, resolutions and everything's done
off your phone these days.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
I think the other thing is is the innovations that
you have at field Days here at way move up there.
It's a real big deal and all the school kids
in particular, they embrace it.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Yeah, yeah, they do. Just a couple of schools that
get right behind it. And when you walk in, you
get to vote on your your favorite wealth and so
there's the winner of the categories, but then there's also
a crowd favorite, so that it's in a big marquee.
(15:18):
And then there is an innovation trail, so you actually
make your way around the field Days using their interactive map,
and you can see all the different innovations on people's
sites too.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Is there anything in particularly you're looking at that you
can bring back to why murmi, would you say? Or
is it a case just comparing apples of apples?
Speaker 4 (15:36):
We're such completely different field days down there, some people
have you, aren't they We're just chill, be right, we'll
make it the best. And yeah, it was up here.
It's sort of a lot down there. It's more of a
farming one up here. It's sort of town and farming,
so very different.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Would you say it's a lot more structure up there
as such?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Yeah, you're definitely definitely there.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Any big purchases on the horizon for the Giles queen.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
No, if my wife's listening, but we'll see you never
have too many tractors, right.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Once again, I received I've been not saying that.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
But that's the barometer. That's how you measure the success
of these field days. Are the big ticket items and
what gets moved. Ch Us, that's just the reality.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
Yeah, it does.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
No, I'm sure they'll sell a few tractors over the
next couple of days.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
So how long are you up there for?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
We're coming back for Friday. So we're here today on
the Wednesday, and I'm allowed to Thursday. If we talked
too much and don't see.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Anything, sorry, but that's not going to happen.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Oh, I can see myself coming back tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yes, are you going to have to mate? Hey, we'll
let you carry on.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Good to catch up and you enjoy Mystery Creek.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Then Benny.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Chris Giles of course involved with the Southern Field Days
and he's up at National Field Days a mystery Creek
which is happening right through until Saturday. Back down south
next Don Morrison Farms at Willow Bank. Let's have a
chin wag in the corner.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
We hear the scene, feel all of this.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Come to me, went on, This is the muster ond
Hakanui just for Hallie Morrison, Don Morrison through the Barricades
by Spendale Ballet, a very popular group. But how are
you telling me it's the most popular song, and truth
be known as not one that you hear every day,
good afternoon.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
Oh god. You look, you don't hear it on main media.
But it was their last number one hurt and it
was their biggest selling single, so you know that big
killer voice to Tony Hedley. So yeah, thank you for
that as a leader and appreciate it. Well, here we go.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
It's getting grunty. That's a good power ballad. Power ballad.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
Yes, I just played a bit more on that radio station.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Andy Julie notes that I'll put that through to Aaron
Gardner if he's listening.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Look, you're based at willow Bag, not far from God.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Truth be known.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
You've been pretty spoilt with this weather though, Howie.
Speaker 8 (18:27):
And this has just been an outstanding, an outstanding lead
into the winter. You know, great great fun is to
the autumn in terms of just you condition for for
mating and hot mating, things like that. Just getting those
last lambs off the place and now the last week
in fact, today the last five US is going on
the fodder beat. I just find it quite a certifying season.
(18:50):
You've tidied up the whole the whole rest of your
year activities and it's now really the settling down and
the setup for next year and to be able to
go into the winter with us and really good condition
and got the final yields back and all the crops,
feed budgets done and things are looking positive. We've got
a surplus which is always important to our tea budgeteers,
(19:12):
so you've got to build up your sleeves at the
at the end of the winter. And yeah, they're just
seeing pretty good andy.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
So as far as those crops, you've got plenty of
eating by the sounds of it.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
Yeah, the some of the yields surprised me, but the
swedes are back. Of course they've planted of it later
in the season then the fire to beat, but they
were more thort around that fourteen ton, which is a
sort of an average crop of swedes, where some of
the other years we've had some pretty high yields up
to twenty but we've had fire to beat yields back
in you know, high high twenty twenty seven twenty eight
(19:43):
ton and that that gives you a lot of eat
and come in the winter time. So we sit with
the swedes, then the fire beat because because while we've
recent years have had some pretty big, sweet yields, it
just shows you're having the combination of the trees, a
bit of insurance and and you know, one of our
biggest insurance is here is having that feed for the
(20:04):
one heavily reliant on that winter feed for three months
for all the animals. So you put a piece of
mind when.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
You get there, and the yields are pretty.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Good, a good way to look at this time of year.
It's not just the transitioning of the animals onto the
winter crops, but like you alluded to, Howie, it's a
transitioning into winter moat on farm, just full stop.
Speaker 8 (20:25):
Yeah, you get up in the morning each day and
you know what your routine is. It takes us about
two hours to get everything see it here. So after
smoke o, we've actually got some time we can devote
to tiding things up. Still got a lot of strength
all work and fixing and tensing to do after that storm.
But we're just you know, we're getting some good afternoons
and days on that, and the place is just starting
(20:46):
to look a bit tidy. It looked to you know,
I don't like things when they look a bit scruffy
and trees are down, but there just hasn't been the
time to clean it up till now. But I'm certainly
enjoying that a.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Lot of people have talked about that.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
How we the fact that they're getting the opportunity finally
to go and stop proof a few of these fences,
fence lines as such, because the number of trees that
came down, it's just been something you've had to put off.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Yeah, it has been, and you know with actually, you know,
to be fair, Andy, we've had to spend a lot
of money already on the excavators and the bigger diggers
that came in to also felled a few more trees,
and then the fencing, so you know, there was a
big sort of for I'd hope to say that there's
been a nice big slice and they're operating costs this
year which are hopefully not reoccurring, but the realities of farming,
(21:35):
you're always going to get something thrown at you. So
probably been a good, good financial year to be able
to you know, just sort of where that that extra
cost or with it?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
So how far above budget did your lamb cheat end up?
Speaker 8 (21:51):
Everything's above above, Like I think I budgeted one hundred
and fifty dollars the lambs andy where they've basically been
two hundred and two hundred plus. While I budgeted what
I got last year and I doubled what we got.
We got up to high sexes for for the you know,
six six sixty six seventy cleen for U fleece and
lamb fleece. That was outstanding. Ram sales were great. Crop
(22:14):
yields came in bang on ever read and this is
the barley and slightly higher than I budgeted. So you know,
all in all, it was just a really good season.
I'd say my first really good season and probably thirty
odd years of farming Andy Well.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Used yesterday at Launviull cracked three hundred dollars.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
Yeah, pretty stunning. And you know what I'm hearing from
you know, both the meat and the milk companies is
that the world just looking for that quality save protein
and you know there seems to be you know a
little bit of a confidence around those prices. Certainly when
you see those winter contracts helped the lamb. There's obviously
(22:53):
some confidence going forward. You know, I'm I've been farming
forbently thirty years on him time, Ok years, I've had
some pretty crap years, and this is the been the
one really good year, and we just fingers crossed we
can get another one.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Now, this is interesting coming from you, Howie, because you're
always just a little bit cynical about the lambschedel heading
into spring. But you're pretty well healed in the industry.
You'll have a bit of an idea of what's going on.
What are you hearing.
Speaker 8 (23:21):
I'm just I'm just having confidence, confidence tempered worth. Don't
make promises because you just look at that look, I
just go back to volatility world. You know, who knows
what's going to happen. We're looking at that launch of
you know, even us on the stock market, and from
what I'm hearing the S and P everything's back because
(23:43):
a lot of a lot of other stocks are selling
out because people to having a stake in that. So
we're actually seeing a bit of a quite a downturn
in the market in the last few days, which people
perhaps wouldn't have expected. You know, seeing anything like that.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Impacts the US Market's an interesting one given all these
people are on these diets require them to eat a
lot of lamb and beef.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
And the life.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Considering that any of these hamburgers put themselves into this
situation in the first place.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
Yeah, look at me. They love their burghers and in
the States has no doubt about that, and certainly even
for the lamb meat outside of the beef, a really
really strong market. So I've actually been surprised with the
economic you know, hardship they've been tasting in the stakes
that that demand has held up so well. So I
guess you'd actually argue that this is actually quite a
(24:31):
good point, the fact that demand and pricing has still
been strong despite the uncertainty and the volatility. That one
can only hope if things settle down a little bit,
you know, that's why we're going to sustain those prices.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
How do you see will going?
Speaker 8 (24:47):
Look? Well, I hope the trend would continue. I've actually
said for quite a long time, Andy, it's the one
thing that I have been optimistic about that in the
I've said in the not necessarily the near future, that
media to long term. I think wall is going to
be a very viable product with a lot of end users.
So I see I see Wall only getting better.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
So it's fair to say the positives are outweighing the
negatives at the moment.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I mean just throughout the sector.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
Oh look, I think when you come off a season
like this, Andy, you can't help but be positive. And
that's right through the dairy and the red meat sector.
You know, if you're a great grower or a hops
growing telling a little bit of a different story. But certainly,
certainly for our sector and the primary industry, it's been
a good year, so we have to celebrate it. And
(25:36):
I guess you've got to be optimistic and hope things
are going to carry on. But the philosophy is, you know,
I'm not going to spend any money until I've got it,
So you know, you look at the budgets next year,
there's a lot of things we'd like to do that
you know, we're still going to have to wait until.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
We get there.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Tony Brown's been resigned by the end zed Arbor not
for two years time. This is a very positive thing
for New Zealand rugby moving.
Speaker 8 (25:59):
Forward, pertexally good foresight end Yeah, lockcom every time there's
been a change, his name pops up as how good
he would be in the mix or who he could
be in the max with. So no, I think that's
that's great foresight. And you know, I think the you know,
the Inded I refuse just probably doing a little bit
of a bit of job. You know, they've got some
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new people in there, and I like a lot of
what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
There's always optimism when these change. How we will let
you carry on, always got to catch up.
Speaker 8 (26:28):
Yeah it is Indy, look forward to next time.
Speaker 9 (26:30):
We com and reve we were just in Howie Morrison
at Will They have been coincidentally as well, the South
and Staggs jersey has been launched for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
It's an absolute doozy.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
It's a throwback to nineteen ninety three and one thing
about working them with Peladin it's not one hundred bucks
to buy Stags gear, especially the playing.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Jersey or the replica jersey which is.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Really really cheap. So well under the Stags carrying on
that deliciative how next from Derry in zid Edna Ramsey.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
You're listening to these.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Welcome back to the Master Foo Fighters as the music
for a Wednesday, Mila, you'll appreciate that. And a Ramsey
of darien Z joins us next based in Belle Cloth
and a good afternoon and welcome to the master.
Speaker 10 (27:29):
Hi Andy, how are you getting on?
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yeah? Really good. Look I was speaking to you briefly
off here, and it turns out you were a lockdown
tourist who never left the country.
Speaker 10 (27:40):
Yes, yep, certainly. I arrived just six years ago, which
was two weeks before lockdown happened, And yeah, it certainly
changed my plans quite drastically. I'd only planned to stay
here for two months working holiday. I was fortunate to
have a job lined up, but yeah, the two months
is turned into six years and permanent residence.
Speaker 8 (27:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
So what was it like being a tourist when it
all kicked off and all the unknown was around the
COVID situation?
Speaker 10 (28:06):
Oh it was pretty weird time, to be honest, and
quite honest, I was quite oblivious to what was actually happening,
as all backpackers are. I certainly wasn't watching the news.
So yeah, all of a sudden it was lockdown and
a lot of people that I was traveling with had
to get flights home, which was pretty difficult, but I
was very lucky. I had a job lined up and
a friend to stay with, so yeah, I was in
(28:27):
a very fortunate position. And I was working up in
Canterbury at the time as a large animal vectech, so
I was still out in farms and just carrying on
as normal. But it certainly changed the pace of my
travels down that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Was that the catalyst for you remaining in New Zealand
like you have?
Speaker 10 (28:44):
Yeah, well, i'd certainly gave me the opportunity to explore
and hedal into a lot more, had a bit more
time on my hands, and yeah, I just fell in
love with the country and then my work, and one
thing's just led another into and.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Still hear well, congratulations it's going to be a plot
of it. I mean we think makes six years ago,
how and where we are now it is a lifetime agoy. Literally, Enna,
you're above Dairy and z statured there recently. What's your
all the such?
Speaker 8 (29:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (29:09):
Yeah, so I started there a month ago. So my
role is really I'm the middleman. So I'm the link
between Dairy and ZID and the farming community. So I'm
bringing together the research, research tools and resources that we
have available into the region in a way that's sort
of practical and useful on farm. This is done through
our field day events, discussion groups, and practical hands on workshops.
(29:30):
But it's also about listening and building relationships. So we're
responding to what farmers here actually need and helping them
navigate challenges whilst improving their farm performance.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
So all these events that are planned, that's your brain
child more or less, or you the link between the
events and the farmer.
Speaker 10 (29:48):
Yeah, yep, I'll be bringing the events the area. I'd
just like to say, actually, at the end of this month,
I will be bringing a few different events across South Icago,
sort of informal discussion groups. What our I really like
to do is bring together the farmers. One is a
social aspect, but also to allow farmers to bring their
ideas and thoughts to the table. I know Darien said,
(30:09):
we've had a wee bit of a gap in this
area for a while. So really I just want to
know what farmers would like to see, Darien said, bring
to this area, and then I can make that happen.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
So lots of events that are coming up before calving.
Is there anything on the horizon as such.
Speaker 10 (30:24):
Yeah, Well, actually have a very few busy weeks ahead.
Tomorrow we have our once a day discussion group in
Northern Southland that's kicking off at the wend Inside Hall
half as twelve tomorrow. Next week we have quite a
big field day event down in Brydon. That's our Sustainable
Dairy Growth so we're looking at a farm that's converted
to dairy, that got solar panels, feedpad and quite a
(30:47):
large wetlands area tooburdins. Yes, yep, yep, that's happening next
week nineteenth of June. And then the thirtieth of June.
We've got our people Expo events down at the Ascot
Hotel alongside the Dairy Women's Network and that's really aimed
at sort of farm owners looking at the succession planning
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and then across doing in July we also have our
Calving Smart which are hands on workshops across the region
which everyone's welcome to come along to those.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Right, let's look at the succession planning because it's well,
just to be honest, it can be a basketcaset situation
or it can be i wouldn't say simeless, but a
lot easier than what you might anticipate what can people
expect from this workshop, for example, because it's a hell
of a subject it is.
Speaker 10 (31:35):
Yeah, And I think it's just it's bringing in some
guest speakers and some people that have been through it themselves,
and also Jane, you're who's our specialist people person guru,
I should say, and just bringing in ideas and it's
just getting people talking about it and putting thoughts and
ideas out there for them to think about.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
So are you wanting people to register for these events?
We just turn up? What's the best way to go
to bed Lena?
Speaker 10 (31:58):
Yeah, definitely a register if you can, but also just
turn up on the day. All the details are on
the website. Or if you'd like to know more, do
just give me a ring, Happy to discuss about it.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
So have you been back home since COVID or have
you just started in New Zealand as such?
Speaker 10 (32:13):
Oh yes, no, no, I've definitely been back home a
first dave here for about two and a half years,
and then once COVID all passed by, I did go
home for about a year's stint, had to get some
bees assorted and then came back. But I tried to
be at home about once a year. I'm heading back
at the end of July. Got three friends getting married,
so that'll be good time to catch up with everyone.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Where about in Scotland are you from?
Speaker 10 (32:35):
So I'm down in the Southwest Corner, which is actually
the largest staying area in Scotland. It's very similar to Santago,
very coastal hilly and we can grow a lot of
grass there too.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Is it warm with inself attaga?
Speaker 10 (32:49):
No, no, we probably get about double amount of bread.
So yeah, when people complain about rain here I can sympathize,
but also yeah, they haven't been to Scotland. I don't
think if complain of it here.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Anna Ramsey of Derry and Zed. Great to chat on
the Muster. You enjoyed this afternoon.
Speaker 10 (33:06):
Thanks Andy, you too, Anna Ramsey.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Of Derry and Zed. Back up to Mystery Creek.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Next from business Desk we catch up with Riley Kennedy.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
We're sol.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Welcome back to the Muster. We're a way back up
to Mystery Creek where we are catching up with Riley
Kennedy at a business desk. Righty, firstly, congratulations you've been
nominated for the Primary Industries New Zealand Awards regarding excellence
and agricultural journalisms. So yeah, firstly, that's a pretty good
accolade if you can go through and get the chocolates.
Speaker 11 (33:48):
Yeah, yes, good afternoon from mister Creek. Yeah, yes, yes
it is, and thank you. I was actually just saying
to someone this morning that I feel like if I
win it, I feel like I've picked it. Last night, tog,
I'm finding you career. Perhaps I'll go farming while they
returns are so good if I end up winning the support.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Have you contemplayed the milking Cows?
Speaker 11 (34:08):
I didn't and score holidays, but I live on the
north shore of Auckland and I have computer hands, so
you know, maybe I'm not quite cut out.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
For those towny hands aren't quite cut for it now, Riley,
from what you've seen. We spoke to Chris Charles earlier,
who's a panda from down South out there giving us
an update around the vibe. As far as the business
side of for your days, it's a massive messive thing.
Speaker 11 (34:31):
Oh, it is huge. I was just looking at some
figures this morning. There's just over eleven hundred exhibitors and
thirteen hundred sites or something around that it's sold out,
and that has never happened in recent history. There's never
ever been There's always been empty site, you know, But
about a month ago they sold out, And I think
there's a very clear reflection of the sentiment in the
(34:54):
sector at the moment. People have here, the our sellers
and supplies and retails are really trying to leverage the
fact that people just have a bit more cash to spend.
And you can see and I'm sitting up in the
media center now looking down on everyone, and there's just
people everywhere it is, and it's going to be a
mass of four days and're only we're only not even
(35:14):
halfway through the first one.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
So people are there to do sales. That's what it
comes down to.
Speaker 11 (35:19):
Trying to get a bargain. I might go shopping at
some point myself, but I've got a bit of work
to do between now and then.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
As far as it's India Free Trade Agreement, I've seen
Indian delegations there this week. What does that mean for
the FTA as such?
Speaker 11 (35:33):
Yeah, Actually I had lunch of that Indian delegation on
late last week and it's quite interesting. Actually were not
the only delegation, but delegation to you, I think there's
even u kmps. There's quite quite a lot in Brazil America. Actually,
just talking to an American, something like eleven hundred visas
(35:53):
were issued for people just to come to fields from
around the world. But this Indian delegation quite I would
say high power, not high pound. But you know it's
quite significant for them to turn up here and have
a look round. Given me was a month ago we
signd this FTA with them, and they're really down here
(36:14):
trying to look at I guess trying to get an
idea of what we do, how we do it, and
I'm sure we'll be sending people in the other direction.
I noticed just below the media center here there is
the Indian consulate and Auckland. They're here. You can go
down there and have a look and explore the India
from the boostoot in the pavilion, which is quite interesting.
But there is actually a very significant international prison here
(36:37):
that I don't think it's been here in recent years.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Why would you say that is Is that just because
of the mood of farming and all these FTAs and
the likes.
Speaker 11 (36:44):
Yeah, I'd say so. And also I think we're probably
just growing a little bit more prominently offshore We're quite
a stable country.
Speaker 9 (36:53):
If you look.
Speaker 11 (36:54):
You only need to pull over the Wall Street Journal
every morning, so again and say all the world is
and I think our reputation is has grown quite significantly,
just in Singapore two or three weeks ago, and it's
quite evident that we're we're not we're quite small, but
our presence is growing in the world. And when you've
got an event like Field Days and you want to
come to New Vielle and why not kill two birds
(37:15):
with one son, so to speak, and come to come
to Field Days and see what New Zealand has to offer.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Sixty six overseas exhibitors last year at must be create this.
She's seventy three, So there's a detail straight off the bat.
Speaker 11 (37:27):
Yeah, it's I do think she just walked past the
Germans that before. I think the Irish might be here again.
It's it's pretty big. And of course some of those
are you know, you've got overseas brands are they're actually
here trying to sell stuff. But you've also got you know,
ambassadors and it's going to there's a European lunch tomorrow
which I'm going to be interesting to see what New
(37:49):
Zealand product they use versus the European that they wont
turned down a European wine, that's for sure. But yeah,
it's it's quite interesting seeing the amount of international people
that have come to the field DEAs and also there's
a Hamilton Airport, small world. Hamilton Airport is now an
international airport again, albeit only to Sydney and on Jetster
(38:11):
if that's what you're fancy. But it's probably will help
people coming direct the field death.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
So there's no fog around or anything, those concerns are
bit of laid for twenty four hours.
Speaker 11 (38:22):
Yeah, no, I turned up here and I was one
of the first through the gates at six a m.
And there was not a not a bunch of fog anywhere.
But it was as an Aucklander, I would say there
was quite quite a thick frost, but it wasn't really
but it went away pretty quickly.
Speaker 8 (38:37):
But there was.
Speaker 9 (38:37):
It was.
Speaker 11 (38:38):
It was a bit frosty. I was just talking to
someone and said there was one degrees and when he
drove in, So yeah, it's pretty cold, but no, there's
no beautiful day out there. Now there's you don't need
to gum boots and I actually left my rain jacket
in Auckland, so I was quite happy about that when
I saw it was the forecast. So hopefully it's days
that way and it's meant to. I don't think it's
meant to. There might be a bit of rainfallcast on Saturday,
(38:58):
but to be all over there is.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
That how you auckland as operate, You attempt fai do
you think it's going to rain, You leave the jacket
at home. You did that in South and you get
bidden in the bum twice over.
Speaker 11 (39:08):
Yeah, Well in Auckland you've got to be paired four
seasons of one day you can. You can go to
work and pop over the bridge and it'll be a nice day,
and then you come home and it's absolutely pelting down.
So usually I've trained this LF pretty well, but I
just had a bit to bring, so I got I
got halfway to got to the Bombays yesterday for our
stop on the way down, and I realized I bugger
(39:31):
off left from bloody jacket at home. But unless it's
not needed, and I'm sure given on at field days,
if I need a jacket they'll be I could just
go purchase one.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Unless the already of the situation, that's probably the best
place to go and buy a jacket if you need to.
Speaker 11 (39:47):
Let's be honest, exactly, perhaps their employers need to pay
us more and might be able to go out and
buy a real flesh one.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Yeah, you've got the very important job of chauffeuring Jamie McKay.
Is it a bit like Smithers Whalon Smithers having to
can't Montgomery Burns?
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Or is he pretty good?
Speaker 8 (40:02):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (40:03):
No, Actually, there's a bit of a way of responsibility
on me chauffeuring co martwa around. But I wanted to
stand at the arrivals call at the Auckland Domester people
with a suit and taile and one of those signs
saying mister McCain. But I didn't give myself organized enough.
But he's keeping us all under control of the Airbnb,
(40:25):
that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Well, that's the thing about field days, aren't you know?
From my experiences of being up there, it's a great chance,
like the rural media in general, just to connect and
catch up.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
It's pretty cool, it is.
Speaker 11 (40:36):
It's good that it's pretty good. I've been down to
a few of our competitors and throwing them a bit
of stick, but it's very good.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Hey, Riley, Thanks very much for your time on the Muster.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
As always, once again, congratulations for your nomination for that award,
and yeah, good luck with the chauffeuring around field days
of the KMATOA.
Speaker 11 (40:56):
Yes plenty of John.
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Speaker 8 (41:21):
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Speaker 2 (41:23):
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Speaker 1 (41:41):
He go there and what did he go on to
get for him?
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Once again a stock selling time thanks to PGG. Right so,
and we find out about the bow Cluth sale which
is how this morning. Mark Callers on the line get
a mate, Howie traveling?
Speaker 12 (41:52):
Yeah, get yep, I'm pretty good. So things are still
very positive in the In the market prime using fine
leans and stalk stoolumes is very sought after, especially getting
into the prime lanes tops for two fifty to two seventy,
mediums two hundred and two forty, and your lottering primes
are one eighty to two hundred. Checking into the store
aims up front there one fifty four to one eighty
(42:15):
four pty good Ford Stores, mediums one forty to one
fifty four, and your tailand stall lams are fifty one
hundred dollars. Getting into the years bagvus three hundred and
forty to two hundred and seventy five dollars, mediums one
eighty to two hundred, and your Thailand is there a
sevent eight one hundred and twenty few rams still coming
through the works, were any seventy dollars one hundred and
(42:36):
thirty dollars, But yeah, let's us at they are quot
thro anst sunny day cheez time went on.
Speaker 5 (42:42):
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