September 9, 2025 • 43 mins
Andy Muir talks to Matt McRae, David Frame, Snr Sgt Gary Iddenton, Jared Stockman, Taylor Painter and Warwick Howie.
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the muster on Hakanui. I'm
Andy Miller here until two o'clock thanks to Peterson Llix.
Welcome along on Hunt Day, in which we see overcast
clouds on the horizon here over the main street of
g Town. We'll crack straight onto it. Today's music is
a soundtrack Pullman Failed from the SPUs Saint James Theater
was up here this morning. It was just having a
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This is the Train Spotting soundtrack from nineteen ninety six.
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mid nineties and a bit earlier. There's the theme obviously
with Trained Spotting. This afternoon showers a breezy whistallees in eight.
Thursday cloudy with breezy nor westerlies, five and twelve. Friday
morning rain with brisk westerlies forming three and nine. Saturday
light rain with PRIs Westallees yet again six and nine,
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and on Sunday showers with breezy westies in the afternoon.
Four and eleven saw temperatures Clinton six point eight, Harriet
six point one, Northern south At seven point two, Riveton
eight point eight, Ton Now seven point four, tits Roe
seven point five, Clinton six point five and Woodland seven
point three. Heading away to Macarita, catching up Matt mccraye
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to kick off the muster for the afternoon. David Crane.
David Crane tried David Frayne when Craig's Investment partners here
in Gore. We have a catch up senior sergeant from
Garry Eddington of the Gore Police talks policing matters. Jared
stop Them from Derry and z as a chap, as
does Taylor Painter from the Balfy Young Farmers. Warwick Howie
from PGG right soon gives an update on the Bellcluther
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sail that was held this morning, and then we cranked
straight into it with Mett mcraey. This is the muster
until two o'clock thanks to Peters genetics.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
He rides a new rides.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Things from a glass your sis windows.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Matt McCrae Farms at Macarada joins us this afternoon on
the muster. Good afternoon, Matt. How's everything out in the trenches?
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Yeah, afternoon, Andy, Surprisingly not too bad. Yeah, forecast has
got it wrong and the sun's shining at the moment,
so we'll take that. There's a one for today.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
It's been pretty wed over the last couple of weeks,
I understand, even ten days.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah, yeah, just probably the last ten days. We've been
playing a bit of ketch up on rainfall. So about
one hundred and thirty mills or a bit over for
the last Yeah, ten days are so well. We started Lemon,
so yeah, the dear f is not giving me stick,
but it starts raining when you start Lemmon, and they're
about spot on to be fair.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
What's a situation like compared to twelve months ago?
Speaker 4 (03:03):
A lot more positive, Yeah, I guess it's so early
days in terms of spring now, but a lot on farm. Yeah,
we've like their ground conditions are okay, sucked up most
of that. Rain covers are dropping a bit, which is
probably concerning. We probably need a bit of hate in
the next week or ten days is to keep on
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top of that. But yeah, your conditions are really good.
And yeah, most of all, the market signals are a
lot more positive than what we were twelve months ago.
Who would have.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Thought it's crazy when you think about it. We'll talk
about this as well, Matt. Now it's came out come
out recently. Statsne Z take a leave what they say,
especially regarding farm statistics and likes, but nonetheless and their
latest Food Price Index data release saying meat was a
key contributor to the five percent increase in food prices
for the year to July. They're saying that beef steak
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and beef mints prices run twenty four point six percent
and nine team point three percent, respectively. Over the July year,
the price of one kg of beef months came to
twenty one ninety seven three dollars, fifty more than a
year ago. What else quite interesting here regarding what we've
got sheet more at export Sheep meat exports have increased
from nine eighty seven akilo in July twenty four to
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thirteen to fifty two for this year, but the most
significant values coming from the EU, where the average has
gone from fifteen ninety six last July to twenty one
dollars fifty one per kilo this July, which is a
record for monthly exports to the EU, and these figures
continue as well. It's interesting reading, but like you say,
positives from from grower's perspective.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Yeah, one hundred percent. We won't get into the stats
end z debat, but yeah, there's some interesting figures there,
isn't it. And it just begs the question around from
a farm level in returns, we need it to be
sustainable where it is at the moment. We've discussed that
plenty of times before. And yeah, I understand from the
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consumer point of view about how prices are lifted. Unfortunately,
that's just the way inflation goes, isn't it. And I'd
love to see how much of that cut in the
middle and where that's going, because it seems to inflate
at the at the highest rate, isn't it. It's not
that farmers are making a whole lot more twenty four
percent more margin on everything they do a lot of
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what we spend goes back into the local communities. Yeah,
it would be interesting to have a decent look at that.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
And you're talking about supermarkets and the media wanting a scapegoat,
namely Myles Harrell for the price of butter, which was
interesting to say the least, because they obviously don't understand
how things work as a trading nation.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yeah, exactly, and i'd yeah, it makes no different. You
just look at what it costs to biaquila, minks or
something and check little and stake. So I understand it
is expensive. But when you break it down back to
what we get on farm, there's a lot of value
in the middle, isn't there. So it's just understanding how
the economics work, and yeah, it's good. It's yeah, probably
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a shame that the average Kiwi doesn't have that connection
with farmers on the land now to understand where their
food comes from and how it gets on their plates.
There's a few call initiative bridging that gap at the moment,
but it's certainly something we need to be conscious of
as food producers.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Talking about figures and export friendly. Kiwi dollar is around
fifty eight cents UI is at the moment too. You
think of the of the UK pounds down below forty
five cents the year around fifty cents, Yet the Australian
dollar I think off the top of my head it's
around the ninety cent plus marks, so those things seem
consistently stable too, which is another positive.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yeah, it's great positive news and I guess for the
red meat industry over the next six months it'll be
good looking at some stability around that so we can capitalize,
especially from Minetaga South in point of view, when lms
start rolling out the gate from December onwards that, yeah,
we can capture a bit of the current height and
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pricing in the market. So it's always nice and puts
the spring in your step when you're talking about it.
When the lambs are turning up on the ground at
the moment, but yeah, the anticipation will be when you
start rolling them out the gate in a few months time.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
It's interesting as well talking about Otago Southland more or
less driving the economy through the rural sector.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Yeah, it's probably something that you're not known for a
long time, isn't it. But it's good to get recognition
further afield in the parts. It goes to show like, yeah,
you don't necessarily need population to drive it. It's yeah,
set the background population and performance, isn't it. You've got
to have a thriving economy and Sepon has been long
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being known for that long mat continue.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Man, I'm asking people out on the lambing beat just
for a couple of week tips regarding mindset and the likes.
What do you do to change things up at this
time of year to keep yourself saying, I suppose.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I spend a reasonable amount of time on the phone.
To be fair, We're not heavily intensive lemmings. I'm driving
up and cash sheep over and I'm packing up a
few casualis by day. So yeah, i'd wring a lot
of people and have a bit of a chat to
the middle of the day and listen to fever of
music is driving around and yeah, keep clear head. It's
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always good. Look. It can be fairly isolated at times
when you're out and about all days. It's always good
to yeah, checking on others and see where they're at
and how things are going. And yeah, So it'd be
a couple of things that I've known done at the moment.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Just finally, we'll talk about a rundfully shield. It was
better to have loved and lost and not loved at all,
as I keep on saying, six days it was glorious,
it was sure, but we had the shield. I suppose Yeah,
one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
It was a magnificent effort against Wykato to bring it home.
And yeah, something that they you won't be able to
take away from those boys that held it for six days.
They come up against a pretty tough Slock Cannibury outfit.
But yeah, I'm certainly turning heads. And I guess when
you look back at some of those Gores and the
team talking about when Seth and Lass held it and
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the expression that was, like you say, are inspiring another
generation of kids coming through to give it a crack,
aren't they? Certainly? No, my boys are pretty fuzzed uf
about the Seth and Staggs at the moment. So yes,
long that last good.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Only Matt all the best out on the trenches this afternoon.
To appreciate your time.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I appreciate it anything for the call.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Matt McCrae, Farmling at Macarada. Up next in studio David
Crane David Frame from Craig's Investment Partners. Here in Gore.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
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Speaker 1 (10:12):
David Fray, M Craig's Investment Partners joins us this afternoon. David,
Good afternoon, Good afternoon, Andy, And to the listeners, how's
everything been? Oh, Heaven's spoken to you for a while.
You've been taking touring around the world. I have been.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
I've been visiting relatives in Europe that we probably should
have seen over the last few years. But time catches
up on you and you think you'd better just go
and do it before we kick off.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
What's the mood like over in the Europe and the
EU Europe and the lights.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
I'd say it was mixed.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
I didn't talk economics to many, but I know say
the tourist attractions in Rome, they said it was far
quieter than this time last year, and to be fair,
I thought it was busy enough, but that everyone seemed
to say that the tourist numbers were down.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Why do you reckon that is?
Speaker 5 (10:56):
I think maybe people are still feeling the pinch a
wee bit after and there's not a lot of spear
cash in most households, and I guess you know, people
joke to me that I was going near a war zone,
and they're probably right. So maybe that puts some people off. Yeah,
we still enjoyed ourselves.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
We're kicking off of interest rates at the moment, and
a resting scenario for people, especially for coming off fixed.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
What do you do?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
I think you have a good think about interest rates
and where they are. I know, Andy, we spoke at
the start of the year and home loan rates are
dipped just below five percent. They haven't really moved much
since then. Some of the short term rates are down
below five percent now. I guess when you fix your
locking in some certainty, I'm not convinced they're going to
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drop much more. There are some good mortgage brokers around
Corkor and Smith and Town are pretty handy, so if
someone wants to know about intrat straits, they can probably
walk in there with their home loan details.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Accountants are good for farmers.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
I think to talk about risk and spreading the spreading
your interest rate risk across your loans.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Are you seeing more cuts to the OCA we are?
Speaker 5 (12:08):
I think they'd probably be a couple more so. There's
one announcement on the eighth of October I think that
most of those cuts are already baked into the interest
rates in the market. So you'll see turn deposits maybe
go down a little bit more, floating interest rates go
down a little bit more, but really there's not much
meat left in it.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
What are you seeing people do investors and the likes.
Are they going for long term security or are they
thinking we'll just ride the market and float. Well, what's
the mindset you take?
Speaker 6 (12:39):
We spread our risks, so we diversify.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
I'd be crazy to say, Look, interest rates will stay
here for five or ten years, or they'll be one
percent higher or lower. So we do take a balanced
approach depending on the investor.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
We talk about returns on farm At the moment, daring's
looking pretty good, red meats looking pretty good as well.
Arable's a bit touch and go to be fair, but
on a whole, everything seems pretty positive heading into the
new season.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Yeah, I think it's good because inflation rarely took its toll.
The costs on farm of skyrocketed, as you'll know, and
the listeners, so to see a few good seasons in
a row is great. I think things like the Fonterra
payout will be quite a good bonanza for dairy farmers.
Even the sheep and beef guys are seeing good surpluses,
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so it's far more positive now.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
But even like the Open Country of their acquisition of
MBM Fonterra with the purchase of their consuming brands as
such as well, and if it goes through talk of
two dollars coming back per share, that's big money.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
It is big money, and I think people, whether it's
dairy farmers, the Fonterra payout, sheep and beef having surpluses
this year is great and I think it's important that
they talk to their accountant and see where those surplus
is the best pot. So some people have debt can
probably take care of. Some people have deferred maintenance, but
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a lot of that cash will probably end up invested
or spent. So it's quite important that people talk to
their professional advisors and get a good gauge as to
what should help them over the next few years.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Perhaps a good chance to consolidate debt.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
I mean some farms and you'll know this better than
I do. Some still have a hefty amount of debt
on them. Other people seem not too concerned, and that's
where the accountant probably is a good person to gauge
whether someone should be retiring debt or not. I mean
the other factor to that is interest rates are getting lower,
so the debt is getting cheaper, and.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
That brings us on to surplus on farm this year,
if the budget's going to look pretty positive, and just
diversifying what you want to do with this money that
comes in, I suppose you guys, you'll be seeing a
lot of clients at the moment thinking what's the best approach?
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Yes, and we're happy to talk to clients or even
new clients. There's no cost to that in this advice,
just to see how they can best use that cash.
Maybe diversify off farm. Traditionally a lot of farmers have
diversified off farm into property. Now property has its pitfalls
as well as its opportunities, but financial markets can provide
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quite a good, fluid, liquid solution to their investment needs.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
So you're encouraging people just to pick up the phone
and have a conversation.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Right, yes, definitely yep.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
And it's a busy time of year, so if they
can't get off farm, we can come out and visit.
So I think the important thing is that people will
look at their options and have a good plan. Otherwise,
sometimes it's just left in the bank it a easily
interest rate, or it just gets spent on something you
don't actually need.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
We'll finish up with this as well. Sad new Smith's
City going into liquidation. The doors are all closed. It's
just another blow to a town like good. We talk
about Ah and J Smith's a couple of years ago. David,
look at what we got now and it makes you
wonder what's happening in the applecut next.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Yeah, I think it's really sad, particularly for small town
like Gore. There's a lot of unseen value in buying locally.
So it's not always the cheapest place to spend your dollar,
but it's probably the best place to spend your dollar.
A lot of mouths, families relying on that dollar, and
you can rely on those people if you've got a
warranty claim or something like that. Now Smith City have
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sort of been stuck in a bund where it's sort
of product and price for a lot of their goods
at the moment, and people are buying online. A lot
of people spent up three or four years ago when
interest rates were cheap and everyone had a lot of
free money from the government. So at the moment there's
not a lot of money being spent on the TVs,
the beds, the sofas because there's not a lot of
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discretionary dollar available. But if you have got it, it
is best spent locally. And it's a shame for Smith's
City nationwide that they just haven't been able to fight
through this.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Would you say this is a victim COVID, the COVID
times and people just went online to.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Shop, I would do it for several factors.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
I think twenty twenty one everyone pretty much went and
upgraded anything they wanted, or they bought an extra rental house,
or they bought a new TV. The last few years,
interest rates have shot up. People haven't had the money available.
If they have had the money available.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
They probably updated their goods three or four years ago.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Even cars were difficult to get, but a lot of
people still got them during that period. So the spending
of those large ticket items has really slowed down because
of COVID.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Craig's investment partners, David the best way to people to
get in touch with the team just.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Come and see us at one twenty Main Street, and
Gore or visit us online at craigsip dot com.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Good on your David. Always good to catch up with
the team. Thanks Andy, David Frame of Craig's Investment Partners
here on the main street and Gore before the end
the Yeller Taylor Painter from Beffy Young Farmers out of
Deary and Zid Jared Stockman. But up next we're hitting
just down the road here from Hakanu e HQ. Senior
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Sergeant Gary Edington of the Good Police, welcome back. This
is a muster. Senior Sergeant Gary Eddington joins us once
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again out of the Good Police. Good afternoon, Gary.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Good afternoon, Andy, and good afternoon the community.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
We haven't spoken for a few weeks. Everything's been going
going well.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
Nod off myself with a shoulder operation, just so recooper
and getting back into it and slightly but surely so. Yeah,
and just catch up with everything as you do.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
So not long from now and you'll be able to
just drop the shoulder and ding intruders running out of
a shop.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Right.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
I'll be back on I'm an active relex. I'll be
back on those.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Streets active relax. So that's a hell of a term there.
But look, we're talking about the situation here with the
good police. How's the situation being over the last few
weeks from your guys perspective?
Speaker 7 (19:09):
Yeah, I mean overall it's doing really well. You know,
got some new stuff on the ground now which is
really really good, and just learning the trade. Still have
like we've had a few crashes around at the moment,
and we've also been targeting. We've had sort of different
teams up from out of town as well as ourselves
on the roads doing checkpoints. Overall, pretty good, but disappointing
(19:30):
that we're still getting people coming through checkpoints over the limits,
not planning, making bad choices. And there's people you know,
from outside as well as within our community, so there's
a lot of things out there. There's shuttle buses planning.
I just don't know what what else to do around
messaging them.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
You need to stop.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
So these numbers around drink driving, they're not dropping basically fluctuates.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
But the people out there, they know who they are
and they can try and avoid us, but we'll all
catch them. It's just a knock on effect. Trying to
prevent crushes, serious harm and make our rows safer as well,
and all I mean people lose their licenses and it
affects the work, affects the family, So it's it's a
lose lose situation really.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
And being September, landing's kicking off, we're well onto calving. Now,
what's a good rule of thumber around rural theft and
preventing it?
Speaker 7 (20:21):
Basically, just go with your gut feeling is my is
really And there's people out there that you know, as
we know, we'll try and target the farms, all the
hard work that the farmers have been doing throughout the
year and the landing. So just if you see anything suspicious,
you see any vehicles, take detail, don't put yourself at harm.
Report it. If you've got CCTV, that's even better. And
just make sure things are locked and secured and make
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life difficult for these people like their opportunities.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Because we've heard about this quite a bit recently, people
jabbing onder social media under the keyboard and venting view
without going through the proper authorities.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
What do you say to that, Well, I've had this
discussion before. I mean, what we don't know, we don't
know If people want to this, they're right obviously, on
social media. But what it's sayings to be with people
are victims of crime, we do want to know about it.
It might be small and little to them, but it
could be part of a jigsaw for us. So let's
you know, if you want to report it, it's one
oh five of it's not urgent. Yes, there's a process
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and it might not be as quick as they would like,
but at the end of the day, it gets a
sign to someone to investigate. So we're just asking people
out there make sure they report the crime. If we
know about it, it could form a pattern and we
can and we can hold these people accountable.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
The same with burglaries in townships too. I suppose absolutely,
I get fed up.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
I want to catch the burgers. I want to hold
people are cantable. You know, people work hard, their lives, yeah,
and they should be able to live in with their
own home safe and not worry about these delinquents out
there trying to steal. And you know, for the habits
we say, as.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Far as scams, this is something unfortunately you're seeing all
the time. We're still getting coming up on my phone.
For Pete's sake, you just lead it straight away. But
just to reiter rate, especially actually to the elder members
of the community. You built all these good deals that
come up. We talk about this as well, about the
increase regarding skimming. Are we making an elite headway around
this or is it, unfortunately just a continuation.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
Well, always making headway, but you know, when you've got
international target in different countries, it's really hard and protracted.
So there's a lot of obstacles along the way. I
had one on my phone yesterday which was basically blocked
and deleted, and that's what I say. Don't open any attachments.
If it's too good to be true, then just don't
touch it.
Speaker 9 (22:31):
Delete it.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
And if it's a bank looking one, go into the
bank or you know, just be really really careful because
as soon as you open it up, you open up
a whole kind of worms.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Were you about to win twenty five million dollars yesterday?
You reckon?
Speaker 7 (22:44):
I think it was going to be five hundred thousand,
but I decided to leave it.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Well that's not very even with inflation and the likes
none the less. No, we don't condain that it all.
Just wipe it, go and talk to your bank as well.
I mean bank scamming as well fishing and that like
some Unfortunately, it's just about communicating with the people that
need to know about these things that are going on,
and banks, especially coming to the equation, just make them
a weird right.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
Yeah, if in doubt, don't be shy. Just get out there.
And I'd rather be people be too careful than not careful,
because these people are just evil. They just want to
try and take people's life savings. They don't care about them.
And unfortunately a lot of times they're successful as well
in that small amount they don't. They target bundable people
and sometimes they'll put ten messages out and it might
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just get one person, yeah, reacts to it, and then
that's it. Then they've got all the details.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Just finally, you mentioned a couple of new recruits here
and Gore, are you still looking for people to join
the force?
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Yep, we're always looking for people. It's a great career.
It's a hard career, but it's worthwhile.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
You know.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
It's about being part of your community, being out there
and it's pretty proud of what I do and I've
done it for thirty odd years and I'm still as
active as ever. So if you're out there and you're interested,
you can go onto the New Zealand website for recruitment
or hop into the station if you want to have
a chat. We can try and point in the right direction.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
It might be a bit cliche, but apart from helping people,
what's it. What's a couple of things you enjoy about
the role Gear?
Speaker 7 (24:12):
I think just that job satisfaction. You're out there trying
to catch criminals aspecially as you can. You're out there
walking and talking, You're you're part of the community. And yeah,
it's just you know, he had this ups and downs
as we see and what's been in the news recently,
but you're out there. You're trying to make make it
a safer place. But you know, and also for your
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families as well, so it's a future proof And I
guess good.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Only Gary always good to catch up and you stay active, relaxing.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
I will do.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
And d also the good community.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Sen your sad and Gary lant and out of the
good police always appreciated his time. Is he is a
busy man as you'd imagine. Jared Stuffan's that nickt from Dearyanz.
This is the master.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
You're going to be.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Welcome back to the Master Jared Stockman of darien Zed
joins us this afternoon. You a Jared good Andy here?
Are you pretty good yourself? You would have been pretty
reasonably busy lately on Imagine.
Speaker 8 (25:18):
Yeah, he has been. Has been a busy time, but
pleased that we've got through last week's whether without too
many challenges. So that's been that's been positive.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
When you're talking to farmers on the ground, carving has
been all right.
Speaker 8 (25:33):
Calving's gone really well. Like I said, were we blet
last week but for the most part, our farmers well
through the calving and pretty happy with the results for
getting as well. So that's again that's going to be
positive for future seasons.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
The team at darien Z quite a few events occur
more often than not. You had an event held yesterday
regaining oral professionals. What was that about.
Speaker 8 (25:58):
Yeah, we had we had Nico Lyons and Dawn Delhi.
Nico's the head of science and Dawn's theme scientists. She's
got strong links to Southland. They came came down and
talked to a bunch of royal professionals and farmers there
as well, and Nico talked about admissions to the pasture
and that's one of the programs that we've been part
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of looking at methane emissions specific capacity based theory systems
in conjunction with Irish counterparts. One of the one of
the kind of ironing things from that is that there's
early indications that suggest we're producing up to twenty percent
less methane than what the what's calculated in the inventory.
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So there's a long way to go, but the science
look very encouraging, which I think is as an awesome
result so far. He also talked about extended lactation over
two years, so that's carving half the herd one year
and the other half of the year the second year,
and the importance of that was just around improving attractiveness
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and were attention in the deer industry. Reduced carving, reduced mating,
reduced Bobby Calves and Dawn talked about things like some
of the research that's been done on the Southern dairy
hab Baylor's wintering the Eco pond out of Lincoln University,
which is quite fascinating. Efment ponds, you know, the second
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biggest producer of emissions on farm, and we've done some
trials on about teen funds around New Zealand, one in Southland,
and about ninety eight percent on the one in Southland
where the meting was actually reduced or eliminated. So yeah,
there's some really positive scientific research that's kind of coming
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out of the work that we're doing through deary en Z.
And I think that there's a new one. There's a
new one happening around farmer workload, and we've got teams
of farmers wearing GPS watchers to monitor sleep and activity
and things like that, and so I guess you know
that the question is why science is important, probably for
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a couple of reasons. One is it supports policy sciences,
and you know, when we're talking to regulators, science is
really important to back it up, back up their thoughts
with credible evidence. And the second thing is that the
scientists or darians are taking the risks so that farmers
can actually just get on and keep farming. So really
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positive event. We're only two people there listening for an
hour and a half to a scientists and yeah, really
really positive outcome and good feedback from the people that tender.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Now let's talk about farmer workload, Jared. Is that type
of year and when I'm speaking to farmers just asking
them for tips they do on farm to try and
ease the mind when they're going about their landing or
their carving beats. So when the rest is what the
states are going to be wearing these smart watches as such.
Speaker 8 (29:04):
Yeah, it'll be fascinating. The early indications, I believe suggest
that farmers or the people that are wearing the watches
are getting potentially less sleep. But again, this is very
kind of raw data. I spoke to one of the
scientists and sort of said, give me some of the
fun and they said, oh, I just you know, we
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haven't really had a good chance to look at it,
and we're still collecting data. But I think the key
is is that if we can get some really good
insights out of it, I think we can just better understand,
you know, what what's required from farmers during certain times
of the season. So these farmers throughout the country are
going to wear these farmers dens, are are going to
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wear these GPS garment type watchers for a whole year,
so we can just see the peaks and troughs which
are probably going to align with the seasons, and you
know what sort of activity they're spending being stationary and
in actually around physical activity. So I think that's certainly
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a study that's it pays to keep your eye on.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
And how long's the study over? What's the timeframe at
twelve months? Twelve months? It'd be interesting to see results
that come out of that. Now we've soaite resources regarding
darien Z. What is there?
Speaker 8 (30:25):
Andy, You might struggle to believe this is over eight
hundred resources and tools on our website, and I reckon
you could just about read them and start farming the
following day. There's that much. There's that much stuff in there,
and look, it is all really really good and topical information.
There's sections on animal biosecurity, business, environment, feed, milking people.
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There's some really good podcasts on there. And I know
that farmers of time poor and don't always have the
ability to just sit down and read information, but there
indeed have just launched some new kind of bite sized
chunks which go for ten minutes, and I think what
we're finding is is people are more busier and stuff.
It's easy to throw on a bit of a podcast
(31:11):
and have a listen to them. And I think your
podcasts number one hundred and twenty, you know, just on
their own account. But I'd really encourage our farmers to
have a look at their website, but just as important
encourage the staff or contract milkers to actually get on
there a bit of a look around. The other thing
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about the website is it gives you a really good
understanding of what events coming up. We've got some We've
got a couple of really good events coming up in
Southland in October and it's around the correlation between emissions
LARA emissions and profitability. And I'd really encourage our staff
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and farmers to get along and actually have a look
at some people who have a low emissions for but
he's still maintained or improved their profitability. So I think
that will be I'm really looking forward to that to
eat myself. So but again back to the website, just
please make sure that you're you know that you're actually
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making sure your starts got access to that because it's
a really valuable resource that you've got. The tippy fingers good.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Only Jared, always good to catch up. You enjoy the afternoon.
Speaker 8 (32:26):
I think we can be appreciate your time and.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Jared Stockman of Deary and Zi Before we wrap up
on a Wednesday afternoon, Taylor Painter had about for young farmers.
(33:01):
The music today is the Train Spotting soundtrack. That song
there is called Bourne Slippy Boy Underworld. Our next guest
came up with the assumption it was a Christmas song,
which it is anything but Taylor Painter of Balfy, Young farmers,
for goodness sake, get yourself what is it. It's called
Train Spotting. Go and watch the movie, listen to the soundtrack,
give yourself a musical education.
Speaker 9 (33:23):
All right, then I'll give it a crack.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Anyway, we're talking young farmers today. But firstly you were
based up at cattle Flat. How's everything.
Speaker 9 (33:32):
It's wet, very wet. It's being really windy. The last
couple of weeks got a few lands on the ground.
The main mobs have started to head out to the
back of a farm off into the hill country and
now it's gone pretty good.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
It sounds as though you have had one of those
mornings though leading into the afternoon. By the sounds of it.
Speaker 9 (33:53):
Yeah, I have a couple of breakouts trying to get
us and lambs out of mobs and everything. So yeah,
it's been a good morning.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Not really, That's the way life goes. But anyway, the
afternoon as we continue on and letting it get better. Look,
you talk about your feet, covers and the lives before
we talk young farmers. Are you coping up there all right?
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (34:15):
No, no we are.
Speaker 8 (34:16):
We're coping. So No, it's good.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
That's the amazing thing. Now, bellfy, young farmers, that's all
we had to talk about, not about giving you a
musical education, which you're lacking obviously, Bell for young farmers,
how's it been.
Speaker 9 (34:27):
It's been really good. No, everyone is great. We've got
quite a few events coming up. So there is the
Ifingery Young Farmer of the Year Districts is coming up
on the eighteenth of October.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
That's being really far out being.
Speaker 9 (34:45):
Held in Clinton. So any young farmer that wants to crack,
you know, learn the next skills or put their knowledge
and skills to the test, I definitely recommend to register
and give it a go.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Come around really fast.
Speaker 9 (35:02):
I know. It feels like only the other day we
were at in finals.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Quite a few members from both attempted to get involved
after going down to the cargo and seeing what it's
all about.
Speaker 9 (35:12):
I'm hoping so I know that there is a few
of us that have registered already. So yeah, kind of
trying to push it away bit to you know, get
them to give it a crack and maybe outside their
comfort zone away it. So it'll be really good to
see how many neighbors we've got that.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Have signed up to give a co that's a big thing,
getting outside your comfort zone and the same old edits
you may learn something if you're not careful.
Speaker 9 (35:37):
Oh exactly. I mean like from running running it last,
running districts last year to this year. It's kind of
I think it's given like a lot of people like
a point of view of like how it all goes,
Like definitely given me the linelight to be like okay,
like I'm going to give it a crack this year
as soon as we helped out last year. So it
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should be a good.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Time, awesome, And yeah, we'll give a bit more of
a lead into that as the date comes to hand.
What else has been going on because it's lambing and carving.
Have you guys still been connecting on a regular basis?
Speaker 8 (36:10):
Yep, so we have.
Speaker 9 (36:11):
We had our meeting last Monday and we've still been
doing our Thursday Thursday every Thursday. Tomorrow this week we're
going to be at Lumpston Pubs. If anyone wants to
come heavy yarn, get off farm ye, come join us
at Lumpson Pub on Thursday night.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
It sounds like there's a bit of a friendly rivalry
going by the socials between yourselves and way Tani is
to encroaching into the other's turf.
Speaker 7 (36:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (36:40):
No, we've had a few white members come to the
meeting and just like a public announcement, we would like
our fines books back. We'd appreciate that. But you know,
they had a meeting on Monday and a few of
us pop down to go the meal and drinks and
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all that. So it's quite good, you know when you
can join up with other clubs and everyone gets along.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
So they got your fines book. There's a fine for
the person in charge of their book alone. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (37:13):
Probably that was a big one too.
Speaker 9 (37:15):
That'll definitely come up. He might be wearing the chicken
suit next month.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Hey on chicken suit, what's this about?
Speaker 9 (37:22):
So we have an inflatable chicken suit. And so what
happens at every meeting. Whoever's got a fine or anything
againt put in the book and then Jack the sheriff
and cat they choose the best fine and then it
goes to a vote to the club and who's got
the worst fine and then we have a win has
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to wear the chicken suit for the next month to
any young Farmer's event.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Name and Shane, what was the reason for the fine
last month?
Speaker 9 (37:52):
I can't actually say you can come on, I literally can't.
It's actually quite bad.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Is it illegal?
Speaker 9 (38:00):
It's not a pleasal but I'm definitely not gonna say.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Okay, he or she who shall remain nameless one day
we will find this out, Taylor. But of other events
coming up that time of year, Like you say, you're
Thursday Thursdays, which is cool for you guys, what else
is happening? And then not too do some future.
Speaker 9 (38:21):
Yeah, so Thursday November is going to be an extremely
busy month for young farmers. We have our annual Barkup
on the first of November at the Alpha Rugby club ground.
Nice so follow our socials more information. We've got some
really cool raffle pros and auction prizes coming up. And
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then on the twenty ninth of November we are holding
mess Alfa, so as any wives or partners wanted to
be your husbands or partners, doesn't drag get them into
As I said, follow our socials for more information. So yeah,
(39:06):
it'll be great to see. Great to see some people
strutting their stuff on akst and drag.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
So this is mister miss Balfer, Am I right?
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (39:18):
So basically the males are dressed up as females.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
About for young farmers, Taylor. For anybody who wants to
get in touch, what's the best way to connect?
Speaker 9 (39:27):
Definitely follow our socials are about young farmers on Facebook
and Instagram. We're quite active on there. If you've got
any questions, just flick through a message on the Facebook
page or Instagram and one of us will get in
contact with you.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
One final time, what was the reason for the fine?
Speaker 9 (39:46):
No, I still can't say.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Jeez, you're no funnel. Let you carry on doing what
you're doing this afternoon, Taylor Painter About for young farmers.
Always good to catch up, especially when you're talking from
the land of cattle flat of Vegas.
Speaker 9 (39:58):
No awesome things and.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
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the livestock farmer. My mate asked his wife if he
was the only one she's ever been with. She goes, yes,
all the others are nines and tens. We'll leave it
there for the afternoon. I'm just wondering what this fine
situation is about the young farmers. I've got to find
this out. I'm intrigued, to say the least. That's us
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for the afternoon. I'm Andy Muoy. You've been listening to
the muster on hock and now he thanks for Peter Genlis.
Enjoy the afternoon. See you tomorrow. Hey, well I'll write
to you. He go there and what did he go on? Again?
For PGG writes and stuck selling. Action accurred at the
Barcluther saw Yad this morning, so we catch up with
Warrick how He, who gives an update on the prices
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as per usual. Good afternoon, Warrick, how do we go?
Speaker 9 (40:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Can I this from? And we have a kettle the
Steven takes and it will be at full yarning, so
they'll be a good varady year of two year old
kettle and yeeld kettle boats feet profty and also a
lot of beef kettle. So of course that sas on
better if you want to sit in the cabin to
home and what's from there? Are you on a lot
of the ont of the form stot today you went
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a good adding part lambs today short of the racing
of prime lames, good number of farm lanes coming out,
and the money's just rocking on. Two hundred and twenty
out of three hundred and twelve dollars for the top
ends the real monsters today, so that was fantastic, and
mediums making sort of one eighty to two twinty, a
few lighter prime lames making sort of one sixty one
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seven five on the store ms. That's moderately adding store
ms you would expect this time of the year. Enough
the demand rocks on the earing some biggery and new
lands they made one hundred and eighty dollars today, with
the bitter end of those stores making between one thirty
and one eighty. Medium stores today making sort of one
hundred to one hundred and thirty, and you're on the
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smaller ones making eighty or ninety dollars. Onto the U
section and where the appeally even called a section to
be asked, there was very few years in today as
you get this time of the year as we wait
for the witch draws to start coming out, and one
hundred and four one hundred and fifty to the better ends.
Today we didn't have any of the real monsters that
we've had some weeks. They were just a good forty
years one hundred and forty hundred and fifty dollars and
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one hundred and eighteen to one hundred and forty on
the meeting stay a handful of rams, nice conditioned rams.
They made eighty dollars. Who I mentioned last week on
the partying at the end of the month, will start
of October, will be heating farming full time, which is
now it's exciting to be quite asked for dinner. And
now we're going to come a good enthusiastic young guys
take it home from him. We've got Mark Coulter is
going to do the Lawrence Wader Huna and through to
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the provincial end. And Russell Maloney, who many already know.
Of course they are auctioned that those cloths and flies,
though for us he's going to take over the milk
and the end say, there's nothing like a better of
useful enthusias and then you just sort of kick things
into life and no touch this week. We just got
a bit sidetracked on the phone. To be honest, I'm
having quite made to the harness racing his little website.
So we'll love. We'll roll on and get a tip
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that up the all blacks and will wipe up the
stakes to be a fake as well. She'll be good.
Speaker 9 (43:04):
I
Good afternoon, and welcome to the muster on Hakanui. I'm
Andy Miller here until two o'clock thanks to Peterson Llix.
Welcome along on Hunt Day, in which we see overcast
clouds on the horizon here over the main street of
g Town. We'll crack straight onto it. Today's music is
a soundtrack Pullman Failed from the SPUs Saint James Theater
was up here this morning. It was just having a
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yarn to me about a couple of things, and I thought,
what's the soundtrack that I really like? And here we go.
This is the Train Spotting soundtrack from nineteen ninety six.
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mid nineties and a bit earlier. There's the theme obviously
with Trained Spotting. This afternoon showers a breezy whistallees in eight.
Thursday cloudy with breezy nor westerlies, five and twelve. Friday
morning rain with brisk westerlies forming three and nine. Saturday
light rain with PRIs Westallees yet again six and nine,
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and on Sunday showers with breezy westies in the afternoon.
Four and eleven saw temperatures Clinton six point eight, Harriet
six point one, Northern south At seven point two, Riveton
eight point eight, Ton Now seven point four, tits Roe
seven point five, Clinton six point five and Woodland seven
point three. Heading away to Macarita, catching up Matt mccraye
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to kick off the muster for the afternoon. David Crane.
David Crane tried David Frayne when Craig's Investment partners here
in Gore. We have a catch up senior sergeant from
Garry Eddington of the Gore Police talks policing matters. Jared
stop Them from Derry and z as a chap, as
does Taylor Painter from the Balfy Young Farmers. Warwick Howie
from PGG right soon gives an update on the Bellcluther
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sail that was held this morning, and then we cranked
straight into it with Mett mcraey. This is the muster
until two o'clock thanks to Peters genetics.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
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Things from a glass your sis windows.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Matt McCrae Farms at Macarada joins us this afternoon on
the muster. Good afternoon, Matt. How's everything out in the trenches?
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Yeah, afternoon, Andy, Surprisingly not too bad. Yeah, forecast has
got it wrong and the sun's shining at the moment,
so we'll take that. There's a one for today.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
It's been pretty wed over the last couple of weeks,
I understand, even ten days.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah, yeah, just probably the last ten days. We've been
playing a bit of ketch up on rainfall. So about
one hundred and thirty mills or a bit over for
the last Yeah, ten days are so well. We started Lemon,
so yeah, the dear f is not giving me stick,
but it starts raining when you start Lemmon, and they're
about spot on to be fair.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
What's a situation like compared to twelve months ago?
Speaker 4 (03:03):
A lot more positive, Yeah, I guess it's so early
days in terms of spring now, but a lot on farm. Yeah,
we've like their ground conditions are okay, sucked up most
of that. Rain covers are dropping a bit, which is
probably concerning. We probably need a bit of hate in
the next week or ten days is to keep on
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top of that. But yeah, your conditions are really good.
And yeah, most of all, the market signals are a
lot more positive than what we were twelve months ago.
Who would have.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Thought it's crazy when you think about it. We'll talk
about this as well, Matt. Now it's came out come
out recently. Statsne Z take a leave what they say,
especially regarding farm statistics and likes, but nonetheless and their
latest Food Price Index data release saying meat was a
key contributor to the five percent increase in food prices
for the year to July. They're saying that beef steak
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and beef mints prices run twenty four point six percent
and nine team point three percent, respectively. Over the July year,
the price of one kg of beef months came to
twenty one ninety seven three dollars, fifty more than a
year ago. What else quite interesting here regarding what we've
got sheet more at export Sheep meat exports have increased
from nine eighty seven akilo in July twenty four to
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thirteen to fifty two for this year, but the most
significant values coming from the EU, where the average has
gone from fifteen ninety six last July to twenty one
dollars fifty one per kilo this July, which is a
record for monthly exports to the EU, and these figures
continue as well. It's interesting reading, but like you say,
positives from from grower's perspective.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Yeah, one hundred percent. We won't get into the stats
end z debat, but yeah, there's some interesting figures there,
isn't it. And it just begs the question around from
a farm level in returns, we need it to be
sustainable where it is at the moment. We've discussed that
plenty of times before. And yeah, I understand from the
(05:01):
consumer point of view about how prices are lifted. Unfortunately,
that's just the way inflation goes, isn't it. And I'd
love to see how much of that cut in the
middle and where that's going, because it seems to inflate
at the at the highest rate, isn't it. It's not
that farmers are making a whole lot more twenty four
percent more margin on everything they do a lot of
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what we spend goes back into the local communities. Yeah,
it would be interesting to have a decent look at that.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
And you're talking about supermarkets and the media wanting a scapegoat,
namely Myles Harrell for the price of butter, which was
interesting to say the least, because they obviously don't understand
how things work as a trading nation.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yeah, exactly, and i'd yeah, it makes no different. You
just look at what it costs to biaquila, minks or
something and check little and stake. So I understand it
is expensive. But when you break it down back to
what we get on farm, there's a lot of value
in the middle, isn't there. So it's just understanding how
the economics work, and yeah, it's good. It's yeah, probably
(06:05):
a shame that the average Kiwi doesn't have that connection
with farmers on the land now to understand where their
food comes from and how it gets on their plates.
There's a few call initiative bridging that gap at the moment,
but it's certainly something we need to be conscious of
as food producers.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Talking about figures and export friendly. Kiwi dollar is around
fifty eight cents UI is at the moment too. You
think of the of the UK pounds down below forty
five cents the year around fifty cents, Yet the Australian
dollar I think off the top of my head it's
around the ninety cent plus marks, so those things seem
consistently stable too, which is another positive.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yeah, it's great positive news and I guess for the
red meat industry over the next six months it'll be
good looking at some stability around that so we can capitalize,
especially from Minetaga South in point of view, when lms
start rolling out the gate from December onwards that, yeah,
we can capture a bit of the current height and
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pricing in the market. So it's always nice and puts
the spring in your step when you're talking about it.
When the lambs are turning up on the ground at
the moment, but yeah, the anticipation will be when you
start rolling them out the gate in a few months time.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
It's interesting as well talking about Otago Southland more or
less driving the economy through the rural sector.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Yeah, it's probably something that you're not known for a
long time, isn't it. But it's good to get recognition
further afield in the parts. It goes to show like, yeah,
you don't necessarily need population to drive it. It's yeah,
set the background population and performance, isn't it. You've got
to have a thriving economy and Sepon has been long
(07:51):
being known for that long mat continue.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Man, I'm asking people out on the lambing beat just
for a couple of week tips regarding mindset and the likes.
What do you do to change things up at this
time of year to keep yourself saying, I suppose.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I spend a reasonable amount of time on the phone.
To be fair, We're not heavily intensive lemmings. I'm driving
up and cash sheep over and I'm packing up a
few casualis by day. So yeah, i'd wring a lot
of people and have a bit of a chat to
the middle of the day and listen to fever of
music is driving around and yeah, keep clear head. It's
(08:27):
always good. Look. It can be fairly isolated at times
when you're out and about all days. It's always good
to yeah, checking on others and see where they're at
and how things are going. And yeah, So it'd be
a couple of things that I've known done at the moment.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Just finally, we'll talk about a rundfully shield. It was
better to have loved and lost and not loved at all,
as I keep on saying, six days it was glorious,
it was sure, but we had the shield. I suppose Yeah,
one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
It was a magnificent effort against Wykato to bring it home.
And yeah, something that they you won't be able to
take away from those boys that held it for six days.
They come up against a pretty tough Slock Cannibury outfit.
But yeah, I'm certainly turning heads. And I guess when
you look back at some of those Gores and the
team talking about when Seth and Lass held it and
(09:19):
the expression that was, like you say, are inspiring another
generation of kids coming through to give it a crack,
aren't they? Certainly? No, my boys are pretty fuzzed uf
about the Seth and Staggs at the moment. So yes,
long that last good.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Only Matt all the best out on the trenches this afternoon.
To appreciate your time.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I appreciate it anything for the call.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Matt McCrae, Farmling at Macarada. Up next in studio David
Crane David Frame from Craig's Investment Partners. Here in Gore.
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Speaker 1 (10:12):
David Fray, M Craig's Investment Partners joins us this afternoon. David,
Good afternoon, Good afternoon, Andy, And to the listeners, how's
everything been? Oh, Heaven's spoken to you for a while.
You've been taking touring around the world. I have been.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
I've been visiting relatives in Europe that we probably should
have seen over the last few years. But time catches
up on you and you think you'd better just go
and do it before we kick off.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
What's the mood like over in the Europe and the
EU Europe and the lights.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
I'd say it was mixed.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
I didn't talk economics to many, but I know say
the tourist attractions in Rome, they said it was far
quieter than this time last year, and to be fair,
I thought it was busy enough, but that everyone seemed
to say that the tourist numbers were down.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Why do you reckon that is?
Speaker 5 (10:56):
I think maybe people are still feeling the pinch a
wee bit after and there's not a lot of spear
cash in most households, and I guess you know, people
joke to me that I was going near a war zone,
and they're probably right. So maybe that puts some people off. Yeah,
we still enjoyed ourselves.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
We're kicking off of interest rates at the moment, and
a resting scenario for people, especially for coming off fixed.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
What do you do?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
I think you have a good think about interest rates
and where they are. I know, Andy, we spoke at
the start of the year and home loan rates are
dipped just below five percent. They haven't really moved much
since then. Some of the short term rates are down
below five percent now. I guess when you fix your
locking in some certainty, I'm not convinced they're going to
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drop much more. There are some good mortgage brokers around
Corkor and Smith and Town are pretty handy, so if
someone wants to know about intrat straits, they can probably
walk in there with their home loan details.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Accountants are good for farmers.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
I think to talk about risk and spreading the spreading
your interest rate risk across your loans.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Are you seeing more cuts to the OCA we are?
Speaker 5 (12:08):
I think they'd probably be a couple more so. There's
one announcement on the eighth of October I think that
most of those cuts are already baked into the interest
rates in the market. So you'll see turn deposits maybe
go down a little bit more, floating interest rates go
down a little bit more, but really there's not much
meat left in it.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
What are you seeing people do investors and the likes.
Are they going for long term security or are they
thinking we'll just ride the market and float. Well, what's
the mindset you take?
Speaker 6 (12:39):
We spread our risks, so we diversify.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
I'd be crazy to say, Look, interest rates will stay
here for five or ten years, or they'll be one
percent higher or lower. So we do take a balanced
approach depending on the investor.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
We talk about returns on farm At the moment, daring's
looking pretty good, red meats looking pretty good as well.
Arable's a bit touch and go to be fair, but
on a whole, everything seems pretty positive heading into the
new season.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Yeah, I think it's good because inflation rarely took its toll.
The costs on farm of skyrocketed, as you'll know, and
the listeners, so to see a few good seasons in
a row is great. I think things like the Fonterra
payout will be quite a good bonanza for dairy farmers.
Even the sheep and beef guys are seeing good surpluses,
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so it's far more positive now.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
But even like the Open Country of their acquisition of
MBM Fonterra with the purchase of their consuming brands as
such as well, and if it goes through talk of
two dollars coming back per share, that's big money.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
It is big money, and I think people, whether it's
dairy farmers, the Fonterra payout, sheep and beef having surpluses
this year is great and I think it's important that
they talk to their accountant and see where those surplus
is the best pot. So some people have debt can
probably take care of. Some people have deferred maintenance, but
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a lot of that cash will probably end up invested
or spent. So it's quite important that people talk to
their professional advisors and get a good gauge as to
what should help them over the next few years.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Perhaps a good chance to consolidate debt.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
I mean some farms and you'll know this better than
I do. Some still have a hefty amount of debt
on them. Other people seem not too concerned, and that's
where the accountant probably is a good person to gauge
whether someone should be retiring debt or not. I mean
the other factor to that is interest rates are getting lower,
so the debt is getting cheaper, and.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
That brings us on to surplus on farm this year,
if the budget's going to look pretty positive, and just
diversifying what you want to do with this money that
comes in, I suppose you guys, you'll be seeing a
lot of clients at the moment thinking what's the best approach?
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Yes, and we're happy to talk to clients or even
new clients. There's no cost to that in this advice,
just to see how they can best use that cash.
Maybe diversify off farm. Traditionally a lot of farmers have
diversified off farm into property. Now property has its pitfalls
as well as its opportunities, but financial markets can provide
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quite a good, fluid, liquid solution to their investment needs.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
So you're encouraging people just to pick up the phone
and have a conversation.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Right, yes, definitely yep.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
And it's a busy time of year, so if they
can't get off farm, we can come out and visit.
So I think the important thing is that people will
look at their options and have a good plan. Otherwise,
sometimes it's just left in the bank it a easily
interest rate, or it just gets spent on something you
don't actually need.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
We'll finish up with this as well. Sad new Smith's
City going into liquidation. The doors are all closed. It's
just another blow to a town like good. We talk
about Ah and J Smith's a couple of years ago. David,
look at what we got now and it makes you
wonder what's happening in the applecut next.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Yeah, I think it's really sad, particularly for small town
like Gore. There's a lot of unseen value in buying locally.
So it's not always the cheapest place to spend your dollar,
but it's probably the best place to spend your dollar.
A lot of mouths, families relying on that dollar, and
you can rely on those people if you've got a
warranty claim or something like that. Now Smith City have
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sort of been stuck in a bund where it's sort
of product and price for a lot of their goods
at the moment, and people are buying online. A lot
of people spent up three or four years ago when
interest rates were cheap and everyone had a lot of
free money from the government. So at the moment there's
not a lot of money being spent on the TVs,
the beds, the sofas because there's not a lot of
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discretionary dollar available. But if you have got it, it
is best spent locally. And it's a shame for Smith's
City nationwide that they just haven't been able to fight
through this.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Would you say this is a victim COVID, the COVID
times and people just went online to.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Shop, I would do it for several factors.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
I think twenty twenty one everyone pretty much went and
upgraded anything they wanted, or they bought an extra rental house,
or they bought a new TV. The last few years,
interest rates have shot up. People haven't had the money available.
If they have had the money available.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
They probably updated their goods three or four years ago.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Even cars were difficult to get, but a lot of
people still got them during that period. So the spending
of those large ticket items has really slowed down because
of COVID.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Craig's investment partners, David the best way to people to
get in touch with the team just.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Come and see us at one twenty Main Street, and
Gore or visit us online at craigsip dot com.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Good on your David. Always good to catch up with
the team. Thanks Andy, David Frame of Craig's Investment Partners
here on the main street and Gore before the end
the Yeller Taylor Painter from Beffy Young Farmers out of
Deary and Zid Jared Stockman. But up next we're hitting
just down the road here from Hakanu e HQ. Senior
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Sergeant Gary Edington of the Good Police, welcome back. This
is a muster. Senior Sergeant Gary Eddington joins us once
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again out of the Good Police. Good afternoon, Gary.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Good afternoon, Andy, and good afternoon the community.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
We haven't spoken for a few weeks. Everything's been going
going well.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
Nod off myself with a shoulder operation, just so recooper
and getting back into it and slightly but surely so. Yeah,
and just catch up with everything as you do.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
So not long from now and you'll be able to
just drop the shoulder and ding intruders running out of
a shop.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Right.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
I'll be back on I'm an active relex. I'll be
back on those.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Streets active relax. So that's a hell of a term there.
But look, we're talking about the situation here with the
good police. How's the situation being over the last few
weeks from your guys perspective?
Speaker 7 (19:09):
Yeah, I mean overall it's doing really well. You know,
got some new stuff on the ground now which is
really really good, and just learning the trade. Still have
like we've had a few crashes around at the moment,
and we've also been targeting. We've had sort of different
teams up from out of town as well as ourselves
on the roads doing checkpoints. Overall, pretty good, but disappointing
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that we're still getting people coming through checkpoints over the limits,
not planning, making bad choices. And there's people you know,
from outside as well as within our community, so there's
a lot of things out there. There's shuttle buses planning.
I just don't know what what else to do around
messaging them.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
You need to stop.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
So these numbers around drink driving, they're not dropping basically fluctuates.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
But the people out there, they know who they are
and they can try and avoid us, but we'll all
catch them. It's just a knock on effect. Trying to
prevent crushes, serious harm and make our rows safer as well,
and all I mean people lose their licenses and it
affects the work, affects the family, So it's it's a
lose lose situation really.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
And being September, landing's kicking off, we're well onto calving. Now,
what's a good rule of thumber around rural theft and
preventing it?
Speaker 7 (20:21):
Basically, just go with your gut feeling is my is
really And there's people out there that you know, as
we know, we'll try and target the farms, all the
hard work that the farmers have been doing throughout the
year and the landing. So just if you see anything suspicious,
you see any vehicles, take detail, don't put yourself at harm.
Report it. If you've got CCTV, that's even better. And
just make sure things are locked and secured and make
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life difficult for these people like their opportunities.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Because we've heard about this quite a bit recently, people
jabbing onder social media under the keyboard and venting view
without going through the proper authorities.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
What do you say to that, Well, I've had this
discussion before. I mean, what we don't know, we don't
know If people want to this, they're right obviously, on
social media. But what it's sayings to be with people
are victims of crime, we do want to know about it.
It might be small and little to them, but it
could be part of a jigsaw for us. So let's
you know, if you want to report it, it's one
oh five of it's not urgent. Yes, there's a process
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and it might not be as quick as they would like,
but at the end of the day, it gets a
sign to someone to investigate. So we're just asking people
out there make sure they report the crime. If we
know about it, it could form a pattern and we
can and we can hold these people accountable.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
The same with burglaries in townships too. I suppose absolutely,
I get fed up.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
I want to catch the burgers. I want to hold
people are cantable. You know, people work hard, their lives, yeah,
and they should be able to live in with their
own home safe and not worry about these delinquents out
there trying to steal. And you know, for the habits
we say, as.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Far as scams, this is something unfortunately you're seeing all
the time. We're still getting coming up on my phone.
For Pete's sake, you just lead it straight away. But
just to reiter rate, especially actually to the elder members
of the community. You built all these good deals that
come up. We talk about this as well, about the
increase regarding skimming. Are we making an elite headway around
this or is it, unfortunately just a continuation.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
Well, always making headway, but you know, when you've got
international target in different countries, it's really hard and protracted.
So there's a lot of obstacles along the way. I
had one on my phone yesterday which was basically blocked
and deleted, and that's what I say. Don't open any attachments.
If it's too good to be true, then just don't
touch it.
Speaker 9 (22:31):
Delete it.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
And if it's a bank looking one, go into the
bank or you know, just be really really careful because
as soon as you open it up, you open up
a whole kind of worms.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Were you about to win twenty five million dollars yesterday?
You reckon?
Speaker 7 (22:44):
I think it was going to be five hundred thousand,
but I decided to leave it.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Well that's not very even with inflation and the likes
none the less. No, we don't condain that it all.
Just wipe it, go and talk to your bank as well.
I mean bank scamming as well fishing and that like
some Unfortunately, it's just about communicating with the people that
need to know about these things that are going on,
and banks, especially coming to the equation, just make them
a weird right.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
Yeah, if in doubt, don't be shy. Just get out there.
And I'd rather be people be too careful than not careful,
because these people are just evil. They just want to
try and take people's life savings. They don't care about them.
And unfortunately a lot of times they're successful as well
in that small amount they don't. They target bundable people
and sometimes they'll put ten messages out and it might
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just get one person, yeah, reacts to it, and then
that's it. Then they've got all the details.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Just finally, you mentioned a couple of new recruits here
and Gore, are you still looking for people to join
the force?
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Yep, we're always looking for people. It's a great career.
It's a hard career, but it's worthwhile.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
You know.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
It's about being part of your community, being out there
and it's pretty proud of what I do and I've
done it for thirty odd years and I'm still as
active as ever. So if you're out there and you're interested,
you can go onto the New Zealand website for recruitment
or hop into the station if you want to have
a chat. We can try and point in the right direction.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
It might be a bit cliche, but apart from helping people,
what's it. What's a couple of things you enjoy about
the role Gear?
Speaker 7 (24:12):
I think just that job satisfaction. You're out there trying
to catch criminals aspecially as you can. You're out there
walking and talking, You're you're part of the community. And yeah,
it's just you know, he had this ups and downs
as we see and what's been in the news recently,
but you're out there. You're trying to make make it
a safer place. But you know, and also for your
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families as well, so it's a future proof And I
guess good.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Only Gary always good to catch up and you stay active, relaxing.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
I will do.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
And d also the good community.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Sen your sad and Gary lant and out of the
good police always appreciated his time. Is he is a
busy man as you'd imagine. Jared Stuffan's that nickt from Dearyanz.
This is the master.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
You're going to be.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Welcome back to the Master Jared Stockman of darien Zed
joins us this afternoon. You a Jared good Andy here?
Are you pretty good yourself? You would have been pretty
reasonably busy lately on Imagine.
Speaker 8 (25:18):
Yeah, he has been. Has been a busy time, but
pleased that we've got through last week's whether without too
many challenges. So that's been that's been positive.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
When you're talking to farmers on the ground, carving has
been all right.
Speaker 8 (25:33):
Calving's gone really well. Like I said, were we blet
last week but for the most part, our farmers well
through the calving and pretty happy with the results for
getting as well. So that's again that's going to be
positive for future seasons.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
The team at darien Z quite a few events occur
more often than not. You had an event held yesterday
regaining oral professionals. What was that about.
Speaker 8 (25:58):
Yeah, we had we had Nico Lyons and Dawn Delhi.
Nico's the head of science and Dawn's theme scientists. She's
got strong links to Southland. They came came down and
talked to a bunch of royal professionals and farmers there
as well, and Nico talked about admissions to the pasture
and that's one of the programs that we've been part
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of looking at methane emissions specific capacity based theory systems
in conjunction with Irish counterparts. One of the one of
the kind of ironing things from that is that there's
early indications that suggest we're producing up to twenty percent
less methane than what the what's calculated in the inventory.
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So there's a long way to go, but the science
look very encouraging, which I think is as an awesome
result so far. He also talked about extended lactation over
two years, so that's carving half the herd one year
and the other half of the year the second year,
and the importance of that was just around improving attractiveness
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and were attention in the deer industry. Reduced carving, reduced mating,
reduced Bobby Calves and Dawn talked about things like some
of the research that's been done on the Southern dairy
hab Baylor's wintering the Eco pond out of Lincoln University,
which is quite fascinating. Efment ponds, you know, the second
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biggest producer of emissions on farm, and we've done some
trials on about teen funds around New Zealand, one in Southland,
and about ninety eight percent on the one in Southland
where the meting was actually reduced or eliminated. So yeah,
there's some really positive scientific research that's kind of coming
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out of the work that we're doing through deary en Z.
And I think that there's a new one. There's a
new one happening around farmer workload, and we've got teams
of farmers wearing GPS watchers to monitor sleep and activity
and things like that, and so I guess you know
that the question is why science is important, probably for
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a couple of reasons. One is it supports policy sciences,
and you know, when we're talking to regulators, science is
really important to back it up, back up their thoughts
with credible evidence. And the second thing is that the
scientists or darians are taking the risks so that farmers
can actually just get on and keep farming. So really
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positive event. We're only two people there listening for an
hour and a half to a scientists and yeah, really
really positive outcome and good feedback from the people that tender.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Now let's talk about farmer workload, Jared. Is that type
of year and when I'm speaking to farmers just asking
them for tips they do on farm to try and
ease the mind when they're going about their landing or
their carving beats. So when the rest is what the
states are going to be wearing these smart watches as such.
Speaker 8 (29:04):
Yeah, it'll be fascinating. The early indications, I believe suggest
that farmers or the people that are wearing the watches
are getting potentially less sleep. But again, this is very
kind of raw data. I spoke to one of the
scientists and sort of said, give me some of the
fun and they said, oh, I just you know, we
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haven't really had a good chance to look at it,
and we're still collecting data. But I think the key
is is that if we can get some really good
insights out of it, I think we can just better understand,
you know, what what's required from farmers during certain times
of the season. So these farmers throughout the country are
going to wear these farmers dens, are are going to
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wear these GPS garment type watchers for a whole year,
so we can just see the peaks and troughs which
are probably going to align with the seasons, and you
know what sort of activity they're spending being stationary and
in actually around physical activity. So I think that's certainly
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a study that's it pays to keep your eye on.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
And how long's the study over? What's the timeframe at
twelve months? Twelve months? It'd be interesting to see results
that come out of that. Now we've soaite resources regarding
darien Z. What is there?
Speaker 8 (30:25):
Andy, You might struggle to believe this is over eight
hundred resources and tools on our website, and I reckon
you could just about read them and start farming the
following day. There's that much. There's that much stuff in there,
and look, it is all really really good and topical information.
There's sections on animal biosecurity, business, environment, feed, milking people.
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There's some really good podcasts on there. And I know
that farmers of time poor and don't always have the
ability to just sit down and read information, but there
indeed have just launched some new kind of bite sized
chunks which go for ten minutes, and I think what
we're finding is is people are more busier and stuff.
It's easy to throw on a bit of a podcast
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and have a listen to them. And I think your
podcasts number one hundred and twenty, you know, just on
their own account. But I'd really encourage our farmers to
have a look at their website, but just as important
encourage the staff or contract milkers to actually get on
there a bit of a look around. The other thing
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about the website is it gives you a really good
understanding of what events coming up. We've got some We've
got a couple of really good events coming up in
Southland in October and it's around the correlation between emissions
LARA emissions and profitability. And I'd really encourage our staff
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and farmers to get along and actually have a look
at some people who have a low emissions for but
he's still maintained or improved their profitability. So I think
that will be I'm really looking forward to that to
eat myself. So but again back to the website, just
please make sure that you're you know that you're actually
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making sure your starts got access to that because it's
a really valuable resource that you've got. The tippy fingers good.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Only Jared, always good to catch up. You enjoy the afternoon.
Speaker 8 (32:26):
I think we can be appreciate your time and.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Jared Stockman of Deary and Zi Before we wrap up
on a Wednesday afternoon, Taylor Painter had about for young farmers.
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The music today is the Train Spotting soundtrack. That song
there is called Bourne Slippy Boy Underworld. Our next guest
came up with the assumption it was a Christmas song,
which it is anything but Taylor Painter of Balfy, Young farmers,
for goodness sake, get yourself what is it. It's called
Train Spotting. Go and watch the movie, listen to the soundtrack,
give yourself a musical education.
Speaker 9 (33:23):
All right, then I'll give it a crack.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Anyway, we're talking young farmers today. But firstly you were
based up at cattle Flat. How's everything.
Speaker 9 (33:32):
It's wet, very wet. It's being really windy. The last
couple of weeks got a few lands on the ground.
The main mobs have started to head out to the
back of a farm off into the hill country and
now it's gone pretty good.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
It sounds as though you have had one of those
mornings though leading into the afternoon. By the sounds of it.
Speaker 9 (33:53):
Yeah, I have a couple of breakouts trying to get
us and lambs out of mobs and everything. So yeah,
it's been a good morning.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Not really, That's the way life goes. But anyway, the
afternoon as we continue on and letting it get better. Look,
you talk about your feet, covers and the lives before
we talk young farmers. Are you coping up there all right?
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (34:15):
No, no we are.
Speaker 8 (34:16):
We're coping. So No, it's good.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
That's the amazing thing. Now, bellfy, young farmers, that's all
we had to talk about, not about giving you a
musical education, which you're lacking obviously, Bell for young farmers,
how's it been.
Speaker 9 (34:27):
It's been really good. No, everyone is great. We've got
quite a few events coming up. So there is the
Ifingery Young Farmer of the Year Districts is coming up
on the eighteenth of October.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
That's being really far out being.
Speaker 9 (34:45):
Held in Clinton. So any young farmer that wants to crack,
you know, learn the next skills or put their knowledge
and skills to the test, I definitely recommend to register
and give it a go.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Come around really fast.
Speaker 9 (35:02):
I know. It feels like only the other day we
were at in finals.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Quite a few members from both attempted to get involved
after going down to the cargo and seeing what it's
all about.
Speaker 9 (35:12):
I'm hoping so I know that there is a few
of us that have registered already. So yeah, kind of
trying to push it away bit to you know, get
them to give it a crack and maybe outside their
comfort zone away it. So it'll be really good to
see how many neighbors we've got that.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Have signed up to give a co that's a big thing,
getting outside your comfort zone and the same old edits
you may learn something if you're not careful.
Speaker 9 (35:37):
Oh exactly. I mean like from running running it last,
running districts last year to this year. It's kind of
I think it's given like a lot of people like
a point of view of like how it all goes,
Like definitely given me the linelight to be like okay,
like I'm going to give it a crack this year
as soon as we helped out last year. So it
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should be a good.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Time, awesome, And yeah, we'll give a bit more of
a lead into that as the date comes to hand.
What else has been going on because it's lambing and carving.
Have you guys still been connecting on a regular basis?
Speaker 8 (36:10):
Yep, so we have.
Speaker 9 (36:11):
We had our meeting last Monday and we've still been
doing our Thursday Thursday every Thursday. Tomorrow this week we're
going to be at Lumpston Pubs. If anyone wants to
come heavy yarn, get off farm ye, come join us
at Lumpson Pub on Thursday night.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
It sounds like there's a bit of a friendly rivalry
going by the socials between yourselves and way Tani is
to encroaching into the other's turf.
Speaker 7 (36:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (36:40):
No, we've had a few white members come to the
meeting and just like a public announcement, we would like
our fines books back. We'd appreciate that. But you know,
they had a meeting on Monday and a few of
us pop down to go the meal and drinks and
(37:01):
all that. So it's quite good, you know when you
can join up with other clubs and everyone gets along.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
So they got your fines book. There's a fine for
the person in charge of their book alone. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (37:13):
Probably that was a big one too.
Speaker 9 (37:15):
That'll definitely come up. He might be wearing the chicken
suit next month.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Hey on chicken suit, what's this about?
Speaker 9 (37:22):
So we have an inflatable chicken suit. And so what
happens at every meeting. Whoever's got a fine or anything
againt put in the book and then Jack the sheriff
and cat they choose the best fine and then it
goes to a vote to the club and who's got
the worst fine and then we have a win has
(37:42):
to wear the chicken suit for the next month to
any young Farmer's event.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Name and Shane, what was the reason for the fine
last month?
Speaker 9 (37:52):
I can't actually say you can come on, I literally can't.
It's actually quite bad.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Is it illegal?
Speaker 9 (38:00):
It's not a pleasal but I'm definitely not gonna say.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Okay, he or she who shall remain nameless one day
we will find this out, Taylor. But of other events
coming up that time of year, Like you say, you're
Thursday Thursdays, which is cool for you guys, what else
is happening? And then not too do some future.
Speaker 9 (38:21):
Yeah, so Thursday November is going to be an extremely
busy month for young farmers. We have our annual Barkup
on the first of November at the Alpha Rugby club ground.
Nice so follow our socials more information. We've got some
really cool raffle pros and auction prizes coming up. And
(38:45):
then on the twenty ninth of November we are holding
mess Alfa, so as any wives or partners wanted to
be your husbands or partners, doesn't drag get them into
As I said, follow our socials for more information. So yeah,
(39:06):
it'll be great to see. Great to see some people
strutting their stuff on akst and drag.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
So this is mister miss Balfer, Am I right?
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (39:18):
So basically the males are dressed up as females.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
About for young farmers, Taylor. For anybody who wants to
get in touch, what's the best way to connect?
Speaker 9 (39:27):
Definitely follow our socials are about young farmers on Facebook
and Instagram. We're quite active on there. If you've got
any questions, just flick through a message on the Facebook
page or Instagram and one of us will get in
contact with you.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
One final time, what was the reason for the fine?
Speaker 9 (39:46):
No, I still can't say.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Jeez, you're no funnel. Let you carry on doing what
you're doing this afternoon, Taylor Painter About for young farmers.
Always good to catch up, especially when you're talking from
the land of cattle flat of Vegas.
Speaker 9 (39:58):
No awesome things and.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Laugh out loud with ag proud because life on the
land can be a laughing matter.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Brought to us by sheer Well Data Working to help
the livestock farmer. My mate asked his wife if he
was the only one she's ever been with. She goes, yes,
all the others are nines and tens. We'll leave it
there for the afternoon. I'm just wondering what this fine
situation is about the young farmers. I've got to find
this out. I'm intrigued, to say the least. That's us
(40:30):
for the afternoon. I'm Andy Muoy. You've been listening to
the muster on hock and now he thanks for Peter Genlis.
Enjoy the afternoon. See you tomorrow. Hey, well I'll write
to you. He go there and what did he go on? Again?
For PGG writes and stuck selling. Action accurred at the
Barcluther saw Yad this morning, so we catch up with
Warrick how He, who gives an update on the prices
(40:51):
as per usual. Good afternoon, Warrick, how do we go?
Speaker 9 (40:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Can I this from? And we have a kettle the
Steven takes and it will be at full yarning, so
they'll be a good varady year of two year old
kettle and yeeld kettle boats feet profty and also a
lot of beef kettle. So of course that sas on
better if you want to sit in the cabin to
home and what's from there? Are you on a lot
of the ont of the form stot today you went
(41:15):
a good adding part lambs today short of the racing
of prime lames, good number of farm lanes coming out,
and the money's just rocking on. Two hundred and twenty
out of three hundred and twelve dollars for the top
ends the real monsters today, so that was fantastic, and
mediums making sort of one eighty to two twinty, a
few lighter prime lames making sort of one sixty one
(41:36):
seven five on the store ms. That's moderately adding store
ms you would expect this time of the year. Enough
the demand rocks on the earing some biggery and new
lands they made one hundred and eighty dollars today, with
the bitter end of those stores making between one thirty
and one eighty. Medium stores today making sort of one
hundred to one hundred and thirty, and you're on the
(41:56):
smaller ones making eighty or ninety dollars. Onto the U
section and where the appeally even called a section to
be asked, there was very few years in today as
you get this time of the year as we wait
for the witch draws to start coming out, and one
hundred and four one hundred and fifty to the better ends.
Today we didn't have any of the real monsters that
we've had some weeks. They were just a good forty
years one hundred and forty hundred and fifty dollars and
(42:17):
one hundred and eighteen to one hundred and forty on
the meeting stay a handful of rams, nice conditioned rams.
They made eighty dollars. Who I mentioned last week on
the partying at the end of the month, will start
of October, will be heating farming full time, which is
now it's exciting to be quite asked for dinner. And
now we're going to come a good enthusiastic young guys
take it home from him. We've got Mark Coulter is
going to do the Lawrence Wader Huna and through to
(42:38):
the provincial end. And Russell Maloney, who many already know.
Of course they are auctioned that those cloths and flies,
though for us he's going to take over the milk
and the end say, there's nothing like a better of
useful enthusias and then you just sort of kick things
into life and no touch this week. We just got
a bit sidetracked on the phone. To be honest, I'm
having quite made to the harness racing his little website.
So we'll love. We'll roll on and get a tip
(42:59):
that up the all blacks and will wipe up the
stakes to be a fake as well. She'll be good.
Speaker 9 (43:04):
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