August 10, 2026 • 46 mins
Andy Muir talks to Grant McMaster, Carl Stewart, Harriet Bremner, Daryl Moyles, Harry McCallum and Sam Riley.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the muster on Hakanui. My
name's Andy Muller. We're here until two o'clock this afternoon,
and of course the show is brought to you by Peterson.
It's welcome along to a beautiful afternoon here in Gtown.
Blue sky all over the show. The temperatures just ticked
over to ten degrees. Yee, how if the double digits.
We'll look at the forecast shortly, But just if you're
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coming to go to dB today, be mindful there is
a detour going on for heavy vehicles. Just like a
matter of moments ago, looking out on the railway line
there you got messive b training like truck and trailer
units coming through the main street there the railway line
and lights were going there. It's organized chaos tour degree,
So just be very careful. Tracks are coming through on
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a detour at the moment due to stuff going on
at the bypass. So yeah, something to be aware of.
Just got looked a little bit too busy out there
for what it should be. But anyway, carry on king.
This song here is called Kings and Queens by a
group from the UE is called Seconds to Mars, which
is our music.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
In Hakanu's five day forecasts with twin farm teff from
and soft text. The proof is in the progeny teff
from dot co dot inzead.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
This afternoon that's cloudy like nor'easter lyes in a higher
twelve Tomorrow. Wednesday very similar, cloudy with breezing no easterly
three and twelve. Thursday afternoon showers have come, variable wins
four and wait for a fifteen degrees. Friday partly cloudy
with variable wins four and thirteen and on Saturday showers
like sale weastly zero and eight. So temperatures Clint Harriet
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five point five. I was gonna say, Clariot, they're no
such town our northern south from five point nine, Rivertons
seven point six, Tiana Our six point eight, Titoroa six
point four, winter four point five at wands at six.
They're not too bad. Actually, Grants asked McMaster starts to
suffer this afternoon from close Bard Station up on the
edges of late Walkeetsupoo, followed up by Carl Stewart out
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of open Country for our regular catch out. Harriet Bremner
of Jeriche Station, a Zenda McDonald Award winner in twenty
twenty three, and we just catch up, of course, to
see how things are over jeryche Station and Fjordland. Daryl
Moyles or Saturn Dan stop Foods has a chat and
Hether mckeza you might know him as Harry McCallum out
of Tiano Young Farmers of sam Riley PGG rights and
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giving a rundown of the stock prices very shortly from
a very hot priced lawn vul soil, especially on the lambs.
Them will crank into Grant McMaster. This is a muster.
We're here until two o'clock in the show, of course,
is brought to you by Peter's janet. It's just done
seven after one. Grand is ars McMaster farms a close
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friend station on the edges of Lakewalker Turf when he's
brought to us weekly by Batman and the team at
Arby Rural. Good afternoon, Grant, good.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Afternoon, and everybody and speaking Batman was great catching up
with him and a few of the cohorts at the
function we had the other night. So I must I
must tell you I didn't get to finish the story
about Batman at hot Park at Oudell, but we'll save
that for another day.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Eh, we gave up after twenty five minutes. Are you're
trying to finish the story?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Well, Batman's a bug of a man to interrupt, doesn't
he exactly?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Look how's everything up in the basin day? We've got
blue skyous? Glorious?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah, I know, we got a lovely blue sky half
cross this morning. But I'm sitting talking to you out
at Moke Lake. The sun's pouring in and into the
truck that isn't It's about three degrees but it's got
the jersey off. I've been tiding a few rams up
this morning and sorting a few things out. So really
really pleasant in the sun. But yeah, cold this morning.
Beautiful day to day.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Are you seeing any signs of springer out in the belt?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yeah, saw me o mates. The oyster catchers arrive in
last week, so I reminded him again. I think they're
about three weeks too bloody early, but they never listen
and they come back to the same place. Is that's
that's the first sign of spring. I've seen a few
a few of the little native birds of coming around
home a bit more. The wax I saw too this morning,
and a couple of bell birds, and they sort of
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they sort of head away. You don't sort of see
much to them in the wonder when it's really cold,
but this time of the year they come flocking back
sort around. We're you know, surrounded by native trees and cares.
Always got a few apples in that out and so
they've all flocked back now, so it must be. Yeah,
things are on the move, the.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Bell birds and the two he's just singing away in
the trees. Is nothing better, There is nothing better.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Just but that's about all that's happening. That's sort of
looking like spring. It's pretty boody. It's just just sort
of that dead look about it at the moment. But
it's you know, we're on top of the ground, so
that's the maintain.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
So what's your focus at the moment, then, before you
get into scanning and the lights.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Well, I've just gonna bring the two d's back. I've
got I've put the tears out in the block what
we call the five miles, got quite good feed in it.
And I the thing about bringing them in reasonably shortly
to get them on on vaillage and barley because they
haven't experienced the balley and salters yet and they're alive,
so I like to get them onto that before they
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come off the shears and straight into padicle onto that feed.
So but I've still got some nice feed on the
hill block where they are, so I'm going to stretch
there out a few days, probably bring them in probably
end of this week, and get them started on that.
We've got a mile of the ewes around it at
the homestead we want took about last week due to
come back around. That's probably it's about a five or
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six air track for them to come around. So I
was going to do that this morning, but got way
late on other things. So probably do that tomorrow morning
and get them around, and they'll have another hell block
to to to finish before we scan, and the next
age on another block along the road, so probably this
time next week, well, i'll do it later. We'll get
them on for sharing on the twentieth and so they'll
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bring them around to the yards and then we'll be
onto the feeding, the barley and the vallage for the
next three or four weeks until things, hopefully you know,
spring arrise.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Tho.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I know what's hurt them when they've got their bally
going I mean they'll be in what you want because
chocolate factory, they'll be in heaven.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Oh yeah, they like the rest of the years. I
you know, as soon as they see the truck, it
doesn't matter what time of the year, as they try
to bloody chase you, they just you know, they love it.
But when you bring the old grain trailer out and
it's weather like this, it's it's good. It's good to
feed it because you don't you know, I haven't got
much wastage. And and of course they like salt. So
that's how I get the two d's onto the barley.
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I just put egg salt and when I feed them,
and I once to get them on the vaileage, I
just run that along the top of the vaillage and
about three days later they just you don't need to
put the voyage down, you can. They just eat it
coming into the sheet. So yeah, but a careful driving
at times, and you don't they don't know. They know
the road rules less than I do. But yeah, they
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certainly get into it.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Now. There was an article out the other day regarding
stuff numbers in New Zealand and do they need to
be increased?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah, I just excuse me. I just read that it
was a pole and the Farmer's Weekly, and I don't
know how many people went into the poll or answered it,
but the question should New Zealand farmers and increase stock
numbers to take advantage of a global trop and farmed animals?
And the result came back seventy one percent said yes
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they should be, and twenty eight percent said no. And
I thought, wow, it's quite an It's quite interesting because
I wouldn't have thought too many people of my generation
are the sixty five year old sort of things, that is,
the every day age of the farmer now apparently would
have probably said that yes, because you know what we
went through in the seventies and eighties with all the
you know, all the big the high stock numbers and
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the incentives, and you know, we certainly learned that you know,
less is better and the old story, you know, went
from seventy million sheep to about thirty five and had
better higher land weights and more lambs and what have
you to you know, genetics and breeding and fertility, et cetera.
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So I just, you know, I just I wonder where
this is coming from, because if you were to have
a look around and say in south and then a
tag on all that good country. You know, you look
at someone that's milking five hundred cows, they're probably not
going to be able to put another hundred on or
I don't know what they're sort of thinking, but I
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know in places like after here, where it's extensive, well,
we're sort of what we carry what we can, and
at the end of the day, that's what it is.
And you know, we've always been good custodians of the
land and that's why it gets us through. So I'm
just thinking, I'm just wondering where that comes from. And
then you look at forestry, so you know, they're saying
that forestry is slowed, but there's been three hundred and
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thirty thousand hectares have gone into tree since twenty seventeen,
and thirty thousand hectares of sheep and beef farming and
sold to forestry in the last year this last year.
So you know, they say, and the article I had
said that, and this wasn't to do with with the pole,
but I think it sort of goes hand in hand
because it's half the reason that we probably can't increase
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a lot. But so the forestry have been slower from
twenty twenty to twenty twenty two, so basically went from
sixty four thousand hectaers down to right thirty thousand years now.
So and that comes at the expense of royal communities
and basically, you know, the vulnerable production of good Familand.
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So I just don't know, I just don't know what
the what the answer is.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
And you just got under reasonite fur production going forward, Well,
no you can't.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
And I mean the bloody horse has bolted as far
as all the land gone and the forestry, and you know,
there's no doubt about it. The right tree in the
right place, twenty five percent of you, you know, your
gullies and had nothing wrong with it. But you know,
for people to be saying now that we know we
need to crease, we need to increase more or grow
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more and increase production, it's unless it's a niche market
of something. I find it pretty difficult to understand how
that's going to be.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Southern under a charity dog Charles getting underway on Friday Grant.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, they it comes around pretty quick, doesn't it. So
you know that's a great a great cause there Friday
Saturday Sunday, fourteen fift down, sixteenth down the IMMO field
days shed there and all proceeds go to your hospital
South and great cause they've been doing this for quite
a few years now and each year, you know, sponsors
come on board and people really support it. So just
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well done to all the team down there and a
few around and one to go and have a look.
That's you know, it's indoors. It's good to see and
a lot of good dogs and it's good dog dog
people there. People come from you know, probably the bottom
of the North or some come from the middle of
North Island. But it's it's well supported and a great thing.
So get along and say it and congratulations for them
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to be still still still making it happen and we'll
be able to some reports on it next week.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Absolutely good on your grant. Go and enjoy the afternoon
and I look forward to finding out how Batman got
on on the end of that ruck. And another day.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Yeah, the only one you ever got into, by.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
The way, graphic Master brought to us by Batman and
the team at Abby Rural. Carl Stewart's up next out
of open Country. This is the Muster Welcome back to
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the muster. Carl Stewart joins us next from Open Country.
Here milk supply manager. Good afternoon, Carl August. It's starting
to get busy.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Cut he is here, goodenoughening to you Andy and your
listeners at the month again and fled out. So what
he's getting well to carving?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Yeah, that whole cycle just starts all over again on
the farm. The winter reset as such, winter feeding and
the likes. Well for a lot of people now it's
all about looking to the prison and looking to the
next couple of months.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
It did right, you know. For Open Country, I suppose
it hasn't really stopped. We picked up milk through June
through July, so it's been pretty constant all the way through.
But obviously things are getting very very busy now and
things are ramping up.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
How are things looking across the country anyway?
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Yeah, real good, you know.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I certainly talked to the chaps in the YO this morning.
Certainly a wee bit dry and normal. There was a
web of our Nino on their minds and I think
I'm just going to watch the space a weever, But
across the board everything is going well. All the factories
are up and running. The only factory that's not up
and running at the moment is the Envy End. Obviously
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they're a little sup at the end of the month,
but yeah, things are going well.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Touch with the super aun Nino. Talk is under Eastern.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
It certainly is, and I think I think people in
the North end are certainly more concerned development or we
seem to be here in the south. But just because
the test missions must well be in at the moment,
it's a wee bit of a hint off. Like I say,
we were drier than normal, but as you know, we're
only in August and things can change very quickly.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Now regarding MVM, of course you guys took it over
a few months ago. Now everything's been going well.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Yeah, Look we had a great punage to the end
of the season with the MVM. First time it's tender profit.
I think that the pairs to be a very happy
way it's turned out. And look that ship's running very well.
We've got an open day for the MVM plant on
the first of October for the MVM supplies and open
Country supplies, so that'll be really interesting to walk through
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that plant with our supplies. So I think they're pretty
excited about that.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
So that days changed from what was actually planned around
this time of year, which wasn't really going to cut
the mustard somebody old morning teeth that I believe a.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Correct Some of the key people we must be involved
in conversations and that's been rictorified. And now we've, like
I said, first of October, and just prior to that,
the day before, we've got our farms meetings down here
itself and as well, so good timing all two.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Boots on SA it'll be in the recent engage the
murder of the farm a meeting as well. Heading into
the season, we're seeing the gd T has been pretty
stagnant for the last for the last sale anyway, after
a couple of declients. But car, as we look forward
into the season here to suppose it's always about new
beginnings and new hope.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Yeah it does. And you're right, Andy, it has been
flat not too much of consuming coming out of the
head office. We just you know, you don't want to
do our business and it would be pretty great men
about what we're doing. Obviously, there's some exciting times ahead
of us, I think you know, obviously we have and
comes in the pipeline of butter plants and cheese plants
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coming to the forts some stage. So yeah, like I say,
open countries pretty focused on you know, where we're going
to get that milk and what we're doing around that space.
So you'd like to stay exciting time.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
So the supplies you've been speaking to, you car, they're
pretty positive around the mood.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Yeah, I can't certainly. Obviously there's a lot of work.
You know, we had a we had a lot of
new supplies come to over the country this season, and
there is a feeble to work involved in doing there,
of course. So the key for us to keep I'm
sure we've got the ship's owning in the right direction,
and we keep just beings transparents as possible and keep
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giving our supplies information as we see it, nothing more,
nothing leisurely to be fear cars on the table.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
What seems to be the messaging you hearing from those
suppliers have changed. What are you guys hearing down there?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Oh yeah, look, obviously there's you know, there's a lot
of different things that we do differently compared to the bends.
I think, you know, the fundamentals are that the access
to our I suppose to the chim of the board
or the CEO of the company. Pretty creamy appearent and
people are well aware of that when they come to
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your farms meetings. So nothing new really there. We've been
doing it for the last twenty one years. I will
continue to do it and that's what makes us fit us.
Apart from what he.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Else, something happening in the next couple of weeks. There
were a professional evening on the nineteenth of August at
the Lanlands and Vicago. Certainly talking this has been a
lot of intellectual property in the one room at one side.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Imagine we'll get a lot of things resolved.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
It's always yes, it did right.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Look we held last year really good response. So markedl
to the CEO, will come down and Mark General mentioned
supply he came down and we just everybody check to
the professionals, i e. Banker's accountants, real estate, just give
an overview of our countries at the moment, what we're
up to. When we were hidding. So as much as
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we give our supplies as trengs being as possible, it's
the most important that we were taking on our song
for the juny as well.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Is Lory Margraine coming down by chance.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Unfortunately not married. Laurie's got a really full dory at
the moment. So next time we'll see Laurie, we'll be
at the at the Farmer's meeting on the twenty nine
to September.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Well, I was going to say its a bit of
a saving grace because he'll be croying about North Harbor
winning some games this.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Year, there's no doubt about that. Why do we haven't
any Texas? No doubt he'll bring it up with our
meetings as he always does when we when he's down here,
so he is watch.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Good to see the Aukland second team's got some followers
out there. Hey, good do you, Carl, Always good to
catch up with the team.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Enjoy the day now a great chat then, thanks very much.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Annie, Charles Stewart of Open Country, who we catch up
with on a regular basis, and Lorry Margarine of course
the chairman and ever North Harburt supporter. But anyway, we'll
leave your NPC for the site at the moment. Up
next Harriet Bremner at Jeriche Station.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
The muster on the farm with Southland District Council working
together for a Beta Southland.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Harriet Bremner is based at Jericho Station over near Manapori
and joins us on the muster on this Well, it's
a pretty decent afternoon here in Gore anyway. Good afternoon, Harriet,
blue sky in abundance here in Gore. How are you fearing?
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Good? Andy? Yeah, Look, I actually burnt the clutch out
in my truck yesterday. So I've been on the bike
on morning, and if so, I've got Philly cold toes.
But the sun is out now, which is good timing
because I'm about to head over Hell. So yeah, it's
a beautiful day now, which is nice. No frost and
so yeah, temperatures are up a bit, which is good
this week.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
The irony of that statement burning out the clutch, A
lot of the new generation won't understand what you mean
because everything's automatics.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Yeah, well, I you know, sitting on mobs and driving
slowly and things. I think you just tend to rest
your foot on the clutch a wee bit. I've been
given a bit of ship by the boys. We put
up to the garage yesterday. We got five meters for
the garret and then it's just completely went. So we
nearly got.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
There, almost got there anyway, how's everything being over at
Jericho Station over and for Jordland.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Oh yeah, I look good. Thanks Andy. It's been pretty
good winter. We haven't had as much fog as normal.
We've had quite a bit of rain. But last Morbi
dairy cows go home tomorrow, which is always a really
good feeling. And we've just got the first carving angus
heffes into the yard, so we're sorting them out after
lunch to put them into their mobs for carving, and
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just going to go imove some sheep up the hill
and yeah, just pottering around moving a few brakes and
bits and pieces. But this time of year is quite
nice because you sort of see the light at the
end of the tunnel. One can see is a future
beyond break fences, which is a really good feeling.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
It's always a relief, I suppose when the cattle get
on the track and head back home to where they
came from and you can look back in the last
ten weeks or something and think, geez, where did that go?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Yeah? Absolutely, you know when they turn up on the truck,
you think cracky, it's going to be a long winter,
and you know July tends to be the hardest month,
I think for a lot of us speaking to other
people about it, but then when they go home you
sort of wonder where that where that time went. But
you know, it's good exercise. It's satisfying getting resting, faed
and doing a good job of it. But yeah, it's
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nice to get to this point and have a bit
more variety in front of us, which is great.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
How do you find August on the farm? It's a
transitioning of the season, just starting to see sheets of
venue of the spring coming into life as such, and yeah,
generally it's a bit of a transition from the winter
cycle into what spring holds, whatever that is.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
Yeah, often August you can get a bit of a
spalse spring, can't you, And it can be quite a
nice settled month. So yeah, like Neil and I went
around yesterday afternoon measuring all the pastures and figuring out
where we're going to put everything and what's going to
happen moving forward. So we've actually got some really good
taco around, which is great. We kept all our cards
this year, so we've got extra amounts to feed, so
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a bit more of a juggle, but it's all cool
working together and for me you know, learning all the
time about pasture management and making those decisions, which I find,
you know, really interesting and and quite exciting that we're
going to get longer days and a bit more sun
hopefully and hopefully we don't get springs that we've had
the last couple of years. It's what we're really just
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hoping for at the moment. To think it's just that
it's going to be kind to us.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Yeah, fair cool on that one landing days. When are
you supposed to start or do you have a few
earlies already like a lot of people.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
No, no earlies. We actually got rid of our older
us earlier on in the year, and I'm quite excited.
We're not lending hoggets this year, so we're actually going
to have basically everything up on the hill lembing, which
is really good. And as I say, we've got extra
carbs on the ground this year, so yeah, we'll just
be having you know, grass breaks up and yeah getting
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them rotating down on the flat. So it'll be a
bit different through full on leaming beats this year, which
is I'm quite excited about.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
And eracing you're going away from whambing hogg it's when
a lot of people are doing the opposite. Why is that?
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Look For me personally, I'm really interested to see what
the scanning percentages come out as tutos that haven't lamb
is a hogit. We have straight pirandales here and they're
really lovely sheep, just a bit more on the frame,
And yeah, I was pretty strict this year when we
weighed them that they had to be over forty four
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kilos to go to the ram, which not you know,
most of them weren't. So yeah, it's just a bit
of a trial for us because Ed has always done it.
But you know, and leambing hoggets is you know, it
does help with the bottom line with a bit of
extra money coming through. But yeah, we Neil and I
are looking forward to seeing what happens with our scanning
and our totos next year. Be interesting, I think, And
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I guess for us, we've sort of reduced our sheep
numbers a week bit and increase increasing our cattle numbers.
So you know, you've got to make a decision, don't
you Like, if you're lending your hogits, then you need
more space on the flat for them and set stocking
them down there. But we need that feed for the
carves this year. So yeah, just a bit of bit
of a change around this year. We'll just see how
it goes. And yeah, hopefully the prices stay up for
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these carves and be happy days.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Now. You're a really busy individual. You've got a heap
of stuff on the go. What are You're an author,
you're a speaker, you're an advocate for rural health, safety
and well being on the side, you wonder, Zanda McDonald
a wad a couple of years ago. You've got quite
a bit on your plate.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Yeah, and then you chuck motherhood into that as well.
And yeah, so full time, I'm on the farm day
to day and I guess I squeeze and the other
things around around work. You know, sometimes it's early starts
before work or late nights the weekends. Yeah, so just
make it work where I can make it fit, really
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and it is a big passion of mine doing these
other things, so it's really important to me. But we
just try and plan ahead and yeah, it make it
work and juggle it best we can. And it's funny
you say that. At the Xander conference earlier in the year,
I talked for quite a few people about you know,
how do you balance the juggle, And from what I gather,
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no one really has ever perfected it. So I think
it's just a matter of just keeping on, keeping on
and doing what you can when you.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Can, really, so you just make it work whatever it takes.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Basically, And I think if you're passionate enough about something,
then you know you'll make it happen, and you've got
that drive to do it, so so it works out.
But yeah, it's just I think it's really important for
me to contribute to the community and our kids. There
are future farmers and future people and the egg sector,
and yeah, I just I want to be part of
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that story, I guess, and helping other people's really important
to me.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
But you also enjoyed your first with the holiday for
a very long time.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Recently, Yeah, Ed and I finally got on our honeymoon
tree and a half years later, but which was really nice.
And we haven't been away for a proper holiday five years,
and you know, we've done a little bits and pieces locally,
but you know, I don't think either of us actually
realized how it ghosted we were until we got over
there and slept for the first couple of days. So
(25:33):
I think it's a really good reminder that you do
need to actually physically remove yourself from the farm sometimes
to actually really truly have a proper reset and a
proper break. You know, it can be hard to do
that when you're living at where it come up.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Did you find it a case of looking forward to
getting home because you'd had that reset?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Absolutely. I think we got today four and we were like, right, Oak,
we're ready to go home now. Often I know, but
there's no place like home. And we both said it's
a good sign of a good holiday that you that
you're ready to go home, but also a good sign
that you want to go home. So no place like
home is there in your own bed.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Absolutely, Harriet, thanks for your time as always, and enjoy
the afternoon there in Fjordland. Awesome.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
Thanks Andy, you have a great one.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Harry Bremner based at Jericho Station with her husband ed
over near Menapori. This is the muster up. Next, we're
across the road to Saturn dan Stock Foods where we
catch up Daryl Moyles. Welcome back to the muster. We're
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across the road here from Hockey to AHQ to Sergeant
dan Stock foods. Of course, Daryl Moyles is over there now.
You look out here, I'm looking at this thistle on
the side of this magnificent building just stands out on
the good landscape. And let's face it, if you're after
any kind of supplementary fee for animals, whether it be deer, pig, sheep, calf, goats, snails,
(27:11):
how I did say it gets some i guana feed
for you if you wanted it. Good afternoon, Darryl.
Speaker 7 (27:17):
Yeah, the aguada feeds are new and on me, but yeah,
good afternoon, Andy.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
How a pretty good a guanda feed? Is it a goer?
If it was needed?
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Well, if you'd asked me two years ago about snail food,
I would have laughed at you. So look who would
know these days?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Fair cool? Hey, it sounds like things are just foot
to the floor at the moment.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
All it is just kick off? Is spring really for us?
I mean the first of August most people have got
one or two calves on the ground. Some of them
got lambs, so you know, a feed starts to go out,
and obviously the girls of Judi amb shortly, so there's
a few nuts going to Some of the multiple use,
multiple beering use so now everything's go at the moment,
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and normally we all go the first week of August
on a normal year, but this year is sort of abnormal.
So it's good. I'm not complaining, but very very busy.
A lot of feed going through the door, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
What do you put that down to?
Speaker 7 (28:09):
Oh, most classes have stopped doing a ka and you
know it's there isn't a surface of feed around people
tell me. So you know, guys just prepared to feed
the us or deer or whatever to keep them up
to speed because you know there's a return down the track.
So that's pretty much what I put it down to.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
The saying is what you get out is what you
put in.
Speaker 7 (28:32):
Yeah, definitely. Yeah, So yeah, when and when prices are
reasonable and balls is the other thing. We're doing a
lot of nuts into bulls. Obviously be still holding up
pretty well. So everything's looking good. Any no downside that
I can see at the stage.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Carfee it's a good option for a lot of people,
I do say at the moment.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
Oh yeah, a lot of carfee going out. Yeah, I
mean people tend to, you know, only get a few
on the ground and need some feed for them. So
we've had a big burst of car feed going out
and we normally get a lull in proceedings now until
probably the start of September because that first a lot
of feed takes a while for the calves to eat.
You know, we're also filling up some dairy silos now,
so guys, we've got a few in the shed milking.
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So everything we do is all go pretty much.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
What would you write you have calf feed be compared
to say, sheet nuts at the moment.
Speaker 7 (29:23):
Well, I mean, sheep the last couple of months, sheep's
been there a big category and that's really unusual and normally,
and they're all seasonal. So once we get to the
in August, we don't sell a lot of nuts. Are
we few into September, but most of the nuts are
sold by then, and then of course we're fled out
selling car feed. But we would sell, yeah, quite a
(29:44):
bit more calf in general than sheet nuts, But it
depends on the season, and yeah, it depends on pricing.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
So it's just a matter of people getting on the
blower of the dog and bonus such and getting in
touch with any queries I spose pretty much.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
Yeah, yeah, I mean they just need to give us
a call. Most feed we've got on hand in stock,
but you know we are running to keep keep product
on the floor, so it does pay give us a
call if you need something, no problems with that.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
It's interesting you brought that triplet bearing news before as well,
dryl knowing that a lot of farmers are getting more
threes or a lot more threes than they used to
different freight requirements there. Use, they can be a pain
in the bat, but when lambs the way it does,
you got to try and make every dollar account well.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
Obviously you will struggle and that late pregnancy struggle to
take on enough energy to feed threes and keep your
body condition. So you need to feed them.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
You know.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
The idea of the nuts is their energy dense. You
don't need to feed a lot to give that you
are real boost. So that's a pretty good option going forward.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Definitely, what about Dearing, That's what's the state of play there.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
We actually sell a lot of velvet nuts year on year.
The velvets, we just sell more and more and they
go all over the place. We send them to Canterbury
obviously one ton to Mauritius. Yeah, that hasn't we haven't
got any more into there, but you know, like how
we want to get a lot of d nuts go
all over the place and not mainly for velvet production,
so they're high and bypass protein things like organic zinc
(31:13):
and so on for valve production. So quite a scientific
product but obviously pays the dividends. They're sell very well
and as I said, you're a year, we're selling more and.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
More, so you reckon the Mauritius deal was a one off.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
Well at the stage we're still trying to get the
paperwork done with their equivalent to our math or MPI.
They want to know everything and even some stuff we
don't know, but they're working. AIRPI are working with any
intrutions to make sure they get all the paperwork sorted.
So quite a fringe it process to get feed into there.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
I still think about a hell of a text break
takes relief. If you are able to go over with
you of mex for caval of.
Speaker 7 (31:51):
Days, well, I'd love to, and it may happen down
the track.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
You never know.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
I wanted to go and sort the paperwork in person.
That'll be a great scheme, wouldn't it.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Absolutely Now Natalie Crystal Let's talk about nutritionists. We talk
about Natalie more often than not, and where we get
her on the muster for a chair and she just
knows her stuff when it comes to the needs of
animal health requirements and of course being the nutritionist for
Sergeant Dan, she's all over things.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yeah, she is.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
Natalie is quite a well traveled person. I mean she
consults you know, through Australia and Asia Pacific, so she's
not just based or she's based in New Zealand, but
quite a knowledge and a lot of different classes stop.
So we rate her knowledge and that's why we think
her product is recently good. It's pretty sound and her
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formulations are quite robust. And by that I mean if
we put a speck on the bag to say this
is twenty percent protein and so much energy, so much starts,
we're well and truly over that.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
You know.
Speaker 7 (32:50):
We test our products regularly at the lab and we're
always coming back probably higher than i'd like. You know,
now now in theory it's too conservative, but would rather
be that way.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Roll talk about a Fuddy Darrell because we can the
stags against Manoo two. The least said the better. But
the NPC in general is a is a grasping your
imagination or you're all over the abs doing this bot door.
Speaker 7 (33:16):
Oh I know, I'm quite keen of follow the av's
over there. But the one, you know, the Southern game
was very disappointing at the end, but I thought the
Otago Canbary game was again disappointing that unfortunately I lost
that shield, But that's a good game Rugby. I enjoyed that.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Actually, we're all I think we're all by Plenty fans
this week in I want to see the shield go
up to write a rule. They haven't held it since
two thousand and four. That was the only time they
held it. I got no issues of the bio platy
wedding and keep it in the regions.
Speaker 7 (33:45):
Yeah, well, I'm Kenebary who had a Plenty and they
don't really do it justice. I think so. No, I'd
prefer it to go to one of our other unions.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Absolutely, this is like the eighteenth time that Canterbury's won
it or something ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
Yeah, well, they've had it a bit much and they
tend to hold on for too long and so it's
spinning around. I think it's a good scheme.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yeah, sare the love right satin, dan stock foods. If
people do want to get on the blow of Daryl,
what's your.
Speaker 7 (34:06):
Digits eight hundred Sgt dam Darren.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Moyles always appreciate your time on the muster and good luck.
It's pretty busy over there. Keep up the good work.
Speaker 7 (34:17):
Yeah, good to talk to any Thank you.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Darren Moyles is sageant dan stock food. Any animal health
requirements you want want, just get in touch with Darrel
Ludtine there. Next on the muster, we're going up to
the Jordland Basin and catching it with Harry McCallum out
of Young Farmers. Harry McCallum joins us this afternoon. He
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is based up a bearwood station and part of Tiano
Young Farmers. Harry, Good afternoon, ground conditions up there in
the basin. How are you looking.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
We're not looking too bad at the moment. Yeah, sun's
out and just slowly starting to get dry up. But
now we're looking pretty good. S fishy today anyway, it's
good to be out up.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
How damn panda foot are you?
Speaker 5 (35:05):
They had not too bad? I mean she's still probably
gummy's on the crop peddocks, but others getting a bit dry.
Which was awesome and I think the long forecasts saying
the same as well.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Farmers. You guys have been pretty active are the over
the past We were whisping, hitting.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
Otty busy. We went to the meeting last last week.
It was pretty good bit of messive turnout twenty five
and the meeting, so that was pretty cool. Yeah, what
have we been up to. We sent a bit of
a crew down to the Delta piece shoot the other
day and the team they bastually went alund Actually they
ended up taking up the comp the year, which was
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awesome to see for a few of the leads and
girls competed in that we've been up to. I did
a whata tana did a car trial on Saturday last
weekend just down a Riversdalde and yeah it was a
bit of a head as well and that was real good.
Sof been out and about as such as the club.
A few fundraisers' sort of here and there. Got a
(36:06):
few in the pipeline as well. Just get a bit
of money games through the bank and yeah, pushback of
come to the party. We're doing a bit of merch
for the club as well. We've just got embroidered a
heap of bush black jackets and etechs and some one
on jerseys just sort of show the label sort of
around the district when we're there representing or helping out,
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so that we're in a real positive space.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
It's a good turnout for your meetings. Knowing that I
can vary as that standard for what you've hit over
the past six months.
Speaker 5 (36:37):
Or so, Yeah, pretty much is Actually I'm kenny because
I reckon. The worst meeting we have ahead was the
AGM because no Bago wanted the jobs, so I think
we had nine to the hit and they all got filled.
But yeah, the meeting after that, we yeah, sort of
just plus twenties, which is positive, and always one or
two new faces coming along as well, which is really
positive to say. So no one's not really being a hermit.
They sort of hear what we're sort of up to
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and really want to be a part of it and
get a fit of an approachable club as well. Always helps.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Are people actually scared of going to a GMS given
they may get a job? Do you see?
Speaker 5 (37:07):
Do you find that absolutely sort of?
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (37:10):
When I was sort of twenty, I tried to avoid
them on the plague and I don't want to. I
don't want anything to do with them. But no, they're
not that bad. And if you've got a really good
support crew around you are a really good exec team.
It's a really good way to slowly introduce your sefen
to some of those leadership roles through young farmers now
are always in the future, trackdown and to and to
work opportunities as well. Always looks good in the resume.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Now the pist shoot, I hope this written down as
Pitt shoot, but I put the use in the edge
because that's indeed what it was. Yeah, like you say,
you guys got some big numbers.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
Yeah, no, I didn't. Actually I didn't actually take part
in it. I was in I was saying, that's Stag Day.
It was a bit of a bugger that they be
able to decide to run that on Stag Day. I
think there's a few of the few that Upset Sappen
does about that sort of cutter, but that's what it is.
But yeah, the people that Darcy jack Edlin Wilson, a
lot of those leads, Jackie Vocet year, they all got
(38:05):
a monkst it And yeah, I had a real good
couple of days of the day favorite spotlighting and he
gave the basement bit of a clean up. So that
was really good.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
So memo for future years when shown Willy comes out
and says Stag Days some petty day for south Anders.
Take no, don't plan events.
Speaker 7 (38:20):
Yeah no, that's.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
Definitely a sleep on my hands to Balfalore. They probably
should never do that again, or especially on Stag Day's.
It's it's religious.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
The car troll that was why tiny that organized? It
wasn't what you said, Yeah, yep did that.
Speaker 5 (38:33):
That was a good headay they did sort of went
around all of half a northern Tafland and a few
tasks and stuff like that, sort of went horn and
then of course funished up at the boozer at Riversdale.
So that ends up being a good night, good day
as well.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
How long does it take you to get around northern
south and an avilion?
Speaker 5 (38:50):
Oh we hadn't done reveelions. I think we actually did it.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
And but yeah, what was your big what vehicle did
you take? You cut out? What did you have?
Speaker 5 (39:01):
Anyway, the wey took three years, two and a half
three years. It was wicked, sort of a round Otama Alpha.
It's lums and Saint Petty's Yeah, no, real, good day,
Robert afternoon.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
You still ever told me the vehicle you were cruising in.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
We'll move on.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
So what's happening on the horizon for you guys bearing
in minded us coming up to lambing slash carving season?
But you guys make an effort to catch up every
couple of weeks, even during the busy season.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
Yeah, we try and make it work. Usually love so
you can't land at nighttime, so if we do have
a catch up, we try and do it then just
as a club. But what are we going on for
o Targa south of the Actually they're actually running the
interior all night down a mandival that's on the twenty second,
So that's just all around like wall handling and the
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shed sort of knowledge that's going to be a positive
open to go that's going to be really good for
people in the sheds, such when sharing's going on, whether
they don't it sort of prelim there or around that
Christmas time through the febry, it's going to be a
lot of knowledge has been learned at the vent sort
of night. Yeah, twenty ninth, that'll be sort of our
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big one. That's what we think we're taking about eighteen
of us down to the Terrace Barkup. So the people
in town there haven't actually ventured over the gorge in
a long time, so it'd be good to get them
out and about and see the rest of the country potentially.
But now we've got a new dog trailer this year,
so we definitely want to try and get that out
and about. I think it's getting sended up tonight.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
I heard all about that the other day. Actually, it
sounds like an interesting contraption you got set up there.
Speaker 5 (40:39):
Yeah, no, it's it's unique. It's definitely got a warrant
and it's definitely registered. But it's going to be good.
I think we can get twelve thirty or dogs in there,
so that should be awesome.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Yea.
Speaker 5 (40:52):
If anyone wants to hire us US sharing bands take
up there, we probably will look after it. They'll be
the AUDEO as well.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Will You'll be surprised how many places do you have
a van that? Yeah, you're quite happy to hire out.
So you should get a couple of boys to be
someone on the basin with the spear of fifteen ser
Yeah surely.
Speaker 5 (41:08):
Yeah. The rugby bus yeah, no, there was another trip
we did, yeah, and carliston with the Channel Rugby Clubs.
We yeah, managed to rope enough people to jump on
the Folly bus and have a trip down there. I'm
not so sure how we got back, but it was
quite put it that way.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
And looking to the future, you guys, you've got your
back up in October, Yeah, October.
Speaker 5 (41:30):
Yeah, So that's another event that we're going to run.
Pretty excited about that, and we're coming into a fourth
year run on that and it just seems we're getting
bigger and bigger. So that'll be at the same venue.
I do I'm going to have a bit of a
mix up and I hear a rumor that we've got
a pretty handy MC coming to run that cutter for us,
if you know.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Yeah, I'll put the word to the ground for you
to see what he's like. See how questionable is Yeah.
Speaker 5 (41:54):
Yeah, but no, We're we're really excited about it this year.
So I think the money raised this year is going
to be going to the help of the Mayor swimming Pool.
So just another just in the base and we sort
of like to support as well. The last couple of
years we've been donating money money to Search and rescue
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and marine search and rescue. So I always like to
always like to give back to.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
Clubs and such in the basin there So Tiana young
farmers Harry. If somebody wants to get in touch and
add to those twenty five members that you have coming
along to your meetings, what do they do?
Speaker 4 (42:33):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (42:34):
Pretty much just jump on the socials either on Instagram
or Facebook page. Or give the new chairman, Isla Edgkin
a bit of a bell. She's pretty friendly to talk to.
Even if it's outside of a meeting sort of thing.
You're more than welcome to come and help help out
of either a fundraiser or just come to one of
our events and catch up with us there you want
him get a free show out of it as well,
but real good for any bunch. I think the core
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group's been the same group since we started the club
back up since twenty twenty one, twenty two, So that's yeah,
real friendly group, good group.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Part of you just back up the bust away. But
they get a free shot of what a free shure?
Oh free shure?
Speaker 5 (43:14):
Jeez?
Speaker 1 (43:15):
Head me wondering anyway, Bill, let you go. Always got
to catch up, buddy.
Speaker 5 (43:19):
Cheers and ladder.
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Speaker 7 (43:55):
And what did he go on again for.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
PGG once again present stock selling action which occurred at
the chows and snow wasn't there he was? On Thursday?
We are at Lausville. Sam Riley's on the ground, thanks
for PGG. Right, so get a Sam any here, you know, mate,
I'm about better now, got that out of the road.
Speaker 5 (44:11):
There we go.
Speaker 8 (44:14):
It's the reason a number of prime sheet coming in,
Prime lambs coming in small yarding stool sheet and just
a handful of store kettal in there as well.
Speaker 7 (44:22):
We'll kick it off.
Speaker 8 (44:23):
What I've seen a new record today for those primet
heavy prime lambs. The heavyes ranged from three hundred to
four hundred and eighteen dollars, So yes, they were, they
were big lambs. But yeah, four hundred and eighteen dollars
is yeah, not hundred sneeze did either. So the mediums
are two forty to two ninety nine, and the lightering
primes are two six to two thirty six handful of
thy The beasts of those are two hundred and twenty
(44:45):
six dollars. Those heavy good heavy years they were two
eighty to three hundred and twenty, the mediums too, twenty
to two seventy, and the lighter end years were one
sixty to one ninety, with a couple of rams and
eighty dollars under the store ambs the best of ours
two hundred two twenty, the mediums one seventy to one ninety.
In the lottery end stools at one thirty to one
(45:07):
fifty just a handful of prawns and today heaps four
hundred and forty klos they were four dollars seventy, heapers
three seventy four hundred and nine klos three dollars seventy
to four dollars ninety five over deary heap of sorry
hels four hundred and seventy five klokos three dollars fifty
(45:27):
and foive hundred and ninety klokos three dollars eighty under
the store kettle just a raceful of mainly yealing kettle.
Quite are two here for cross years at five hundred
and ten kg's two thousand, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Mark two here for cross heapers at four hundred ninety
to five hundred and twenty ks. They were two thousand
and five hundred and seventy to two thousand, six hundred
(45:49):
and ninety dollars. IR one here for.
Speaker 9 (45:51):
Cross years one hundred and eighty five kilows on thy
ten dollars. Murray Gray cross Ye's at one hundred and
eighty five kg's as well nine hundred dollars from I
I one here for cross heapers at one ninety KOs
one thousand dollars, and I one here for cross heapers
at two hundred and forty three ks play with twelve
hundred and eighty dollars.
Speaker 8 (46:09):
So yeah, everything's selling. Reason well, that wraps up man
un
Good afternoon, and welcome to the muster on Hakanui. My
name's Andy Muller. We're here until two o'clock this afternoon,
and of course the show is brought to you by Peterson.
It's welcome along to a beautiful afternoon here in Gtown.
Blue sky all over the show. The temperatures just ticked
over to ten degrees. Yee, how if the double digits.
We'll look at the forecast shortly, But just if you're
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coming to go to dB today, be mindful there is
a detour going on for heavy vehicles. Just like a
matter of moments ago, looking out on the railway line
there you got messive b training like truck and trailer
units coming through the main street there the railway line
and lights were going there. It's organized chaos tour degree,
So just be very careful. Tracks are coming through on
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a detour at the moment due to stuff going on
at the bypass. So yeah, something to be aware of.
Just got looked a little bit too busy out there
for what it should be. But anyway, carry on king.
This song here is called Kings and Queens by a
group from the UE is called Seconds to Mars, which
is our music.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
In Hakanu's five day forecasts with twin farm teff from
and soft text. The proof is in the progeny teff
from dot co dot inzead.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
This afternoon that's cloudy like nor'easter lyes in a higher
twelve Tomorrow. Wednesday very similar, cloudy with breezing no easterly
three and twelve. Thursday afternoon showers have come, variable wins
four and wait for a fifteen degrees. Friday partly cloudy
with variable wins four and thirteen and on Saturday showers
like sale weastly zero and eight. So temperatures Clint Harriet
(01:36):
five point five. I was gonna say, Clariot, they're no
such town our northern south from five point nine, Rivertons
seven point six, Tiana Our six point eight, Titoroa six
point four, winter four point five at wands at six.
They're not too bad. Actually, Grants asked McMaster starts to
suffer this afternoon from close Bard Station up on the
edges of late Walkeetsupoo, followed up by Carl Stewart out
(01:58):
of open Country for our regular catch out. Harriet Bremner
of Jeriche Station, a Zenda McDonald Award winner in twenty
twenty three, and we just catch up, of course, to
see how things are over jeryche Station and Fjordland. Daryl
Moyles or Saturn Dan stop Foods has a chat and
Hether mckeza you might know him as Harry McCallum out
of Tiano Young Farmers of sam Riley PGG rights and
(02:20):
giving a rundown of the stock prices very shortly from
a very hot priced lawn vul soil, especially on the lambs.
Them will crank into Grant McMaster. This is a muster.
We're here until two o'clock in the show, of course,
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Arby Rural. Good afternoon, Grant, good.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Afternoon, and everybody and speaking Batman was great catching up
with him and a few of the cohorts at the
function we had the other night. So I must I
must tell you I didn't get to finish the story
about Batman at hot Park at Oudell, but we'll save
that for another day.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Eh, we gave up after twenty five minutes. Are you're
trying to finish the story?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Well, Batman's a bug of a man to interrupt, doesn't
he exactly?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Look how's everything up in the basin day? We've got
blue skyous? Glorious?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah, I know, we got a lovely blue sky half
cross this morning. But I'm sitting talking to you out
at Moke Lake. The sun's pouring in and into the
truck that isn't It's about three degrees but it's got
the jersey off. I've been tiding a few rams up
this morning and sorting a few things out. So really
really pleasant in the sun. But yeah, cold this morning.
Beautiful day to day.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Are you seeing any signs of springer out in the belt?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yeah, saw me o mates. The oyster catchers arrive in
last week, so I reminded him again. I think they're
about three weeks too bloody early, but they never listen
and they come back to the same place. Is that's
that's the first sign of spring. I've seen a few
a few of the little native birds of coming around
home a bit more. The wax I saw too this morning,
and a couple of bell birds, and they sort of
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they sort of head away. You don't sort of see
much to them in the wonder when it's really cold,
but this time of the year they come flocking back
sort around. We're you know, surrounded by native trees and cares.
Always got a few apples in that out and so
they've all flocked back now, so it must be. Yeah,
things are on the move, the.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Bell birds and the two he's just singing away in
the trees. Is nothing better, There is nothing better.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Just but that's about all that's happening. That's sort of
looking like spring. It's pretty boody. It's just just sort
of that dead look about it at the moment. But
it's you know, we're on top of the ground, so
that's the maintain.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
So what's your focus at the moment, then, before you
get into scanning and the lights.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Well, I've just gonna bring the two d's back. I've
got I've put the tears out in the block what
we call the five miles, got quite good feed in it.
And I the thing about bringing them in reasonably shortly
to get them on on vaillage and barley because they
haven't experienced the balley and salters yet and they're alive,
so I like to get them onto that before they
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come off the shears and straight into padicle onto that feed.
So but I've still got some nice feed on the
hill block where they are, so I'm going to stretch
there out a few days, probably bring them in probably
end of this week, and get them started on that.
We've got a mile of the ewes around it at
the homestead we want took about last week due to
come back around. That's probably it's about a five or
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six air track for them to come around. So I
was going to do that this morning, but got way
late on other things. So probably do that tomorrow morning
and get them around, and they'll have another hell block
to to to finish before we scan, and the next
age on another block along the road, so probably this
time next week, well, i'll do it later. We'll get
them on for sharing on the twentieth and so they'll
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bring them around to the yards and then we'll be
onto the feeding, the barley and the vallage for the
next three or four weeks until things, hopefully you know,
spring arrise.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Tho.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I know what's hurt them when they've got their bally
going I mean they'll be in what you want because
chocolate factory, they'll be in heaven.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Oh yeah, they like the rest of the years. I
you know, as soon as they see the truck, it
doesn't matter what time of the year, as they try
to bloody chase you, they just you know, they love it.
But when you bring the old grain trailer out and
it's weather like this, it's it's good. It's good to
feed it because you don't you know, I haven't got
much wastage. And and of course they like salt. So
that's how I get the two d's onto the barley.
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I just put egg salt and when I feed them,
and I once to get them on the vaileage, I
just run that along the top of the vaillage and
about three days later they just you don't need to
put the voyage down, you can. They just eat it
coming into the sheet. So yeah, but a careful driving
at times, and you don't they don't know. They know
the road rules less than I do. But yeah, they
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certainly get into it.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Now. There was an article out the other day regarding
stuff numbers in New Zealand and do they need to
be increased?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah, I just excuse me. I just read that it
was a pole and the Farmer's Weekly, and I don't
know how many people went into the poll or answered it,
but the question should New Zealand farmers and increase stock
numbers to take advantage of a global trop and farmed animals?
And the result came back seventy one percent said yes
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they should be, and twenty eight percent said no. And
I thought, wow, it's quite an It's quite interesting because
I wouldn't have thought too many people of my generation
are the sixty five year old sort of things, that is,
the every day age of the farmer now apparently would
have probably said that yes, because you know what we
went through in the seventies and eighties with all the
you know, all the big the high stock numbers and
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the incentives, and you know, we certainly learned that you know,
less is better and the old story, you know, went
from seventy million sheep to about thirty five and had
better higher land weights and more lambs and what have
you to you know, genetics and breeding and fertility, et cetera.
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So I just, you know, I just I wonder where
this is coming from, because if you were to have
a look around and say in south and then a
tag on all that good country. You know, you look
at someone that's milking five hundred cows, they're probably not
going to be able to put another hundred on or
I don't know what they're sort of thinking, but I
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know in places like after here, where it's extensive, well,
we're sort of what we carry what we can, and
at the end of the day, that's what it is.
And you know, we've always been good custodians of the
land and that's why it gets us through. So I'm
just thinking, I'm just wondering where that comes from. And
then you look at forestry, so you know, they're saying
that forestry is slowed, but there's been three hundred and
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thirty thousand hectares have gone into tree since twenty seventeen,
and thirty thousand hectares of sheep and beef farming and
sold to forestry in the last year this last year.
So you know, they say, and the article I had
said that, and this wasn't to do with with the pole,
but I think it sort of goes hand in hand
because it's half the reason that we probably can't increase
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a lot. But so the forestry have been slower from
twenty twenty to twenty twenty two, so basically went from
sixty four thousand hectaers down to right thirty thousand years now.
So and that comes at the expense of royal communities
and basically, you know, the vulnerable production of good Familand.
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So I just don't know, I just don't know what
the what the answer is.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
And you just got under reasonite fur production going forward, Well,
no you can't.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
And I mean the bloody horse has bolted as far
as all the land gone and the forestry, and you know,
there's no doubt about it. The right tree in the
right place, twenty five percent of you, you know, your
gullies and had nothing wrong with it. But you know,
for people to be saying now that we know we
need to crease, we need to increase more or grow
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more and increase production, it's unless it's a niche market
of something. I find it pretty difficult to understand how
that's going to be.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Southern under a charity dog Charles getting underway on Friday Grant.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, they it comes around pretty quick, doesn't it. So
you know that's a great a great cause there Friday
Saturday Sunday, fourteen fift down, sixteenth down the IMMO field
days shed there and all proceeds go to your hospital
South and great cause they've been doing this for quite
a few years now and each year, you know, sponsors
come on board and people really support it. So just
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well done to all the team down there and a
few around and one to go and have a look.
That's you know, it's indoors. It's good to see and
a lot of good dogs and it's good dog dog
people there. People come from you know, probably the bottom
of the North or some come from the middle of
North Island. But it's it's well supported and a great thing.
So get along and say it and congratulations for them
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to be still still still making it happen and we'll
be able to some reports on it next week.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Absolutely good on your grant. Go and enjoy the afternoon
and I look forward to finding out how Batman got
on on the end of that ruck. And another day.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Yeah, the only one you ever got into, by.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
The way, graphic Master brought to us by Batman and
the team at Abby Rural. Carl Stewart's up next out
of open Country. This is the Muster Welcome back to
(11:40):
the muster. Carl Stewart joins us next from Open Country.
Here milk supply manager. Good afternoon, Carl August. It's starting
to get busy.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Cut he is here, goodenoughening to you Andy and your
listeners at the month again and fled out. So what
he's getting well to carving?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Yeah, that whole cycle just starts all over again on
the farm. The winter reset as such, winter feeding and
the likes. Well for a lot of people now it's
all about looking to the prison and looking to the
next couple of months.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
It did right, you know. For Open Country, I suppose
it hasn't really stopped. We picked up milk through June
through July, so it's been pretty constant all the way through.
But obviously things are getting very very busy now and
things are ramping up.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
How are things looking across the country anyway?
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Yeah, real good, you know.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I certainly talked to the chaps in the YO this morning.
Certainly a wee bit dry and normal. There was a
web of our Nino on their minds and I think
I'm just going to watch the space a weever, But
across the board everything is going well. All the factories
are up and running. The only factory that's not up
and running at the moment is the Envy End. Obviously
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they're a little sup at the end of the month,
but yeah, things are going well.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Touch with the super aun Nino. Talk is under Eastern.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
It certainly is, and I think I think people in
the North end are certainly more concerned development or we
seem to be here in the south. But just because
the test missions must well be in at the moment,
it's a wee bit of a hint off. Like I say,
we were drier than normal, but as you know, we're
only in August and things can change very quickly.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Now regarding MVM, of course you guys took it over
a few months ago. Now everything's been going well.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Yeah, Look we had a great punage to the end
of the season with the MVM. First time it's tender profit.
I think that the pairs to be a very happy
way it's turned out. And look that ship's running very well.
We've got an open day for the MVM plant on
the first of October for the MVM supplies and open
Country supplies, so that'll be really interesting to walk through
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that plant with our supplies. So I think they're pretty
excited about that.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
So that days changed from what was actually planned around
this time of year, which wasn't really going to cut
the mustard somebody old morning teeth that I believe a.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Correct Some of the key people we must be involved
in conversations and that's been rictorified. And now we've, like
I said, first of October, and just prior to that,
the day before, we've got our farms meetings down here
itself and as well, so good timing all two.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Boots on SA it'll be in the recent engage the
murder of the farm a meeting as well. Heading into
the season, we're seeing the gd T has been pretty
stagnant for the last for the last sale anyway, after
a couple of declients. But car, as we look forward
into the season here to suppose it's always about new
beginnings and new hope.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Yeah it does. And you're right, Andy, it has been
flat not too much of consuming coming out of the
head office. We just you know, you don't want to
do our business and it would be pretty great men
about what we're doing. Obviously, there's some exciting times ahead
of us, I think you know, obviously we have and
comes in the pipeline of butter plants and cheese plants
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coming to the forts some stage. So yeah, like I say,
open countries pretty focused on you know, where we're going
to get that milk and what we're doing around that space.
So you'd like to stay exciting time.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
So the supplies you've been speaking to, you car, they're
pretty positive around the mood.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Yeah, I can't certainly. Obviously there's a lot of work.
You know, we had a we had a lot of
new supplies come to over the country this season, and
there is a feeble to work involved in doing there,
of course. So the key for us to keep I'm
sure we've got the ship's owning in the right direction,
and we keep just beings transparents as possible and keep
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giving our supplies information as we see it, nothing more,
nothing leisurely to be fear cars on the table.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
What seems to be the messaging you hearing from those
suppliers have changed. What are you guys hearing down there?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Oh yeah, look, obviously there's you know, there's a lot
of different things that we do differently compared to the bends.
I think, you know, the fundamentals are that the access
to our I suppose to the chim of the board
or the CEO of the company. Pretty creamy appearent and
people are well aware of that when they come to
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your farms meetings. So nothing new really there. We've been
doing it for the last twenty one years. I will
continue to do it and that's what makes us fit us.
Apart from what he.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Else, something happening in the next couple of weeks. There
were a professional evening on the nineteenth of August at
the Lanlands and Vicago. Certainly talking this has been a
lot of intellectual property in the one room at one side.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Imagine we'll get a lot of things resolved.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
It's always yes, it did right.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Look we held last year really good response. So markedl
to the CEO, will come down and Mark General mentioned
supply he came down and we just everybody check to
the professionals, i e. Banker's accountants, real estate, just give
an overview of our countries at the moment, what we're
up to. When we were hidding. So as much as
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we give our supplies as trengs being as possible, it's
the most important that we were taking on our song
for the juny as well.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Is Lory Margraine coming down by chance.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Unfortunately not married. Laurie's got a really full dory at
the moment. So next time we'll see Laurie, we'll be
at the at the Farmer's meeting on the twenty nine
to September.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Well, I was going to say its a bit of
a saving grace because he'll be croying about North Harbor
winning some games this.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Year, there's no doubt about that. Why do we haven't
any Texas? No doubt he'll bring it up with our
meetings as he always does when we when he's down here,
so he is watch.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Good to see the Aukland second team's got some followers
out there. Hey, good do you, Carl, Always good to
catch up with the team.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Enjoy the day now a great chat then, thanks very much.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Annie, Charles Stewart of Open Country, who we catch up
with on a regular basis, and Lorry Margarine of course
the chairman and ever North Harburt supporter. But anyway, we'll
leave your NPC for the site at the moment. Up
next Harriet Bremner at Jeriche Station.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
The muster on the farm with Southland District Council working
together for a Beta Southland.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Harriet Bremner is based at Jericho Station over near Manapori
and joins us on the muster on this Well, it's
a pretty decent afternoon here in Gore anyway. Good afternoon, Harriet,
blue sky in abundance here in Gore. How are you fearing?
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Good? Andy? Yeah, Look, I actually burnt the clutch out
in my truck yesterday. So I've been on the bike
on morning, and if so, I've got Philly cold toes.
But the sun is out now, which is good timing
because I'm about to head over Hell. So yeah, it's
a beautiful day now, which is nice. No frost and
so yeah, temperatures are up a bit, which is good
this week.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
The irony of that statement burning out the clutch, A
lot of the new generation won't understand what you mean
because everything's automatics.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Yeah, well, I you know, sitting on mobs and driving
slowly and things. I think you just tend to rest
your foot on the clutch a wee bit. I've been
given a bit of ship by the boys. We put
up to the garage yesterday. We got five meters for
the garret and then it's just completely went. So we
nearly got.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
There, almost got there anyway, how's everything being over at
Jericho Station over and for Jordland.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Oh yeah, I look good. Thanks Andy. It's been pretty
good winter. We haven't had as much fog as normal.
We've had quite a bit of rain. But last Morbi
dairy cows go home tomorrow, which is always a really
good feeling. And we've just got the first carving angus
heffes into the yard, so we're sorting them out after
lunch to put them into their mobs for carving, and
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just going to go imove some sheep up the hill
and yeah, just pottering around moving a few brakes and
bits and pieces. But this time of year is quite
nice because you sort of see the light at the
end of the tunnel. One can see is a future
beyond break fences, which is a really good feeling.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
It's always a relief, I suppose when the cattle get
on the track and head back home to where they
came from and you can look back in the last
ten weeks or something and think, geez, where did that go?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Yeah? Absolutely, you know when they turn up on the truck,
you think cracky, it's going to be a long winter,
and you know July tends to be the hardest month,
I think for a lot of us speaking to other
people about it, but then when they go home you
sort of wonder where that where that time went. But
you know, it's good exercise. It's satisfying getting resting, faed
and doing a good job of it. But yeah, it's
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nice to get to this point and have a bit
more variety in front of us, which is great.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
How do you find August on the farm? It's a
transitioning of the season, just starting to see sheets of
venue of the spring coming into life as such, and yeah,
generally it's a bit of a transition from the winter
cycle into what spring holds, whatever that is.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
Yeah, often August you can get a bit of a
spalse spring, can't you, And it can be quite a
nice settled month. So yeah, like Neil and I went
around yesterday afternoon measuring all the pastures and figuring out
where we're going to put everything and what's going to
happen moving forward. So we've actually got some really good
taco around, which is great. We kept all our cards
this year, so we've got extra amounts to feed, so
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a bit more of a juggle, but it's all cool
working together and for me you know, learning all the
time about pasture management and making those decisions, which I find,
you know, really interesting and and quite exciting that we're
going to get longer days and a bit more sun
hopefully and hopefully we don't get springs that we've had
the last couple of years. It's what we're really just
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hoping for at the moment. To think it's just that
it's going to be kind to us.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Yeah, fair cool on that one landing days. When are
you supposed to start or do you have a few
earlies already like a lot of people.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
No, no earlies. We actually got rid of our older
us earlier on in the year, and I'm quite excited.
We're not lending hoggets this year, so we're actually going
to have basically everything up on the hill lembing, which
is really good. And as I say, we've got extra
carbs on the ground this year, so yeah, we'll just
be having you know, grass breaks up and yeah getting
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them rotating down on the flat. So it'll be a
bit different through full on leaming beats this year, which
is I'm quite excited about.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
And eracing you're going away from whambing hogg it's when
a lot of people are doing the opposite. Why is that?
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Look For me personally, I'm really interested to see what
the scanning percentages come out as tutos that haven't lamb
is a hogit. We have straight pirandales here and they're
really lovely sheep, just a bit more on the frame,
And yeah, I was pretty strict this year when we
weighed them that they had to be over forty four
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kilos to go to the ram, which not you know,
most of them weren't. So yeah, it's just a bit
of a trial for us because Ed has always done it.
But you know, and leambing hoggets is you know, it
does help with the bottom line with a bit of
extra money coming through. But yeah, we Neil and I
are looking forward to seeing what happens with our scanning
and our totos next year. Be interesting, I think, And
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I guess for us, we've sort of reduced our sheep
numbers a week bit and increase increasing our cattle numbers.
So you know, you've got to make a decision, don't
you Like, if you're lending your hogits, then you need
more space on the flat for them and set stocking
them down there. But we need that feed for the
carves this year. So yeah, just a bit of bit
of a change around this year. We'll just see how
it goes. And yeah, hopefully the prices stay up for
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these carves and be happy days.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Now. You're a really busy individual. You've got a heap
of stuff on the go. What are You're an author,
you're a speaker, you're an advocate for rural health, safety
and well being on the side, you wonder, Zanda McDonald
a wad a couple of years ago. You've got quite
a bit on your plate.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Yeah, and then you chuck motherhood into that as well.
And yeah, so full time, I'm on the farm day
to day and I guess I squeeze and the other
things around around work. You know, sometimes it's early starts
before work or late nights the weekends. Yeah, so just
make it work where I can make it fit, really
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and it is a big passion of mine doing these
other things, so it's really important to me. But we
just try and plan ahead and yeah, it make it
work and juggle it best we can. And it's funny
you say that. At the Xander conference earlier in the year,
I talked for quite a few people about you know,
how do you balance the juggle, And from what I gather,
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no one really has ever perfected it. So I think
it's just a matter of just keeping on, keeping on
and doing what you can when you.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Can, really, so you just make it work whatever it takes.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Basically, And I think if you're passionate enough about something,
then you know you'll make it happen, and you've got
that drive to do it, so so it works out.
But yeah, it's just I think it's really important for
me to contribute to the community and our kids. There
are future farmers and future people and the egg sector,
and yeah, I just I want to be part of
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that story, I guess, and helping other people's really important
to me.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
But you also enjoyed your first with the holiday for
a very long time.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Recently, Yeah, Ed and I finally got on our honeymoon
tree and a half years later, but which was really nice.
And we haven't been away for a proper holiday five years,
and you know, we've done a little bits and pieces locally,
but you know, I don't think either of us actually
realized how it ghosted we were until we got over
there and slept for the first couple of days. So
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I think it's a really good reminder that you do
need to actually physically remove yourself from the farm sometimes
to actually really truly have a proper reset and a
proper break. You know, it can be hard to do
that when you're living at where it come up.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Did you find it a case of looking forward to
getting home because you'd had that reset?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Absolutely. I think we got today four and we were like, right, Oak,
we're ready to go home now. Often I know, but
there's no place like home. And we both said it's
a good sign of a good holiday that you that
you're ready to go home, but also a good sign
that you want to go home. So no place like
home is there in your own bed.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Absolutely, Harriet, thanks for your time as always, and enjoy
the afternoon there in Fjordland. Awesome.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
Thanks Andy, you have a great one.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Harry Bremner based at Jericho Station with her husband ed
over near Menapori. This is the muster up. Next, we're
across the road to Saturn dan Stock Foods where we
catch up Daryl Moyles. Welcome back to the muster. We're
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across the road here from Hockey to AHQ to Sergeant
dan Stock foods. Of course, Daryl Moyles is over there now.
You look out here, I'm looking at this thistle on
the side of this magnificent building just stands out on
the good landscape. And let's face it, if you're after
any kind of supplementary fee for animals, whether it be deer, pig, sheep, calf, goats, snails,
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how I did say it gets some i guana feed
for you if you wanted it. Good afternoon, Darryl.
Speaker 7 (27:17):
Yeah, the aguada feeds are new and on me, but yeah,
good afternoon, Andy.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
How a pretty good a guanda feed? Is it a goer?
If it was needed?
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Well, if you'd asked me two years ago about snail food,
I would have laughed at you. So look who would
know these days?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Fair cool? Hey, it sounds like things are just foot
to the floor at the moment.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
All it is just kick off? Is spring really for us?
I mean the first of August most people have got
one or two calves on the ground. Some of them
got lambs, so you know, a feed starts to go out,
and obviously the girls of Judi amb shortly, so there's
a few nuts going to Some of the multiple use,
multiple beering use so now everything's go at the moment,
(27:56):
and normally we all go the first week of August
on a normal year, but this year is sort of abnormal.
So it's good. I'm not complaining, but very very busy.
A lot of feed going through the door, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
What do you put that down to?
Speaker 7 (28:09):
Oh, most classes have stopped doing a ka and you
know it's there isn't a surface of feed around people
tell me. So you know, guys just prepared to feed
the us or deer or whatever to keep them up
to speed because you know there's a return down the track.
So that's pretty much what I put it down to.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
The saying is what you get out is what you
put in.
Speaker 7 (28:32):
Yeah, definitely. Yeah, So yeah, when and when prices are
reasonable and balls is the other thing. We're doing a
lot of nuts into bulls. Obviously be still holding up
pretty well. So everything's looking good. Any no downside that
I can see at the stage.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Carfee it's a good option for a lot of people,
I do say at the moment.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
Oh yeah, a lot of carfee going out. Yeah, I
mean people tend to, you know, only get a few
on the ground and need some feed for them. So
we've had a big burst of car feed going out
and we normally get a lull in proceedings now until
probably the start of September because that first a lot
of feed takes a while for the calves to eat.
You know, we're also filling up some dairy silos now,
so guys, we've got a few in the shed milking.
(29:14):
So everything we do is all go pretty much.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
What would you write you have calf feed be compared
to say, sheet nuts at the moment.
Speaker 7 (29:23):
Well, I mean, sheep the last couple of months, sheep's
been there a big category and that's really unusual and normally,
and they're all seasonal. So once we get to the
in August, we don't sell a lot of nuts. Are
we few into September, but most of the nuts are
sold by then, and then of course we're fled out
selling car feed. But we would sell, yeah, quite a
(29:44):
bit more calf in general than sheet nuts, But it
depends on the season, and yeah, it depends on pricing.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
So it's just a matter of people getting on the
blower of the dog and bonus such and getting in
touch with any queries I spose pretty much.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
Yeah, yeah, I mean they just need to give us
a call. Most feed we've got on hand in stock,
but you know we are running to keep keep product
on the floor, so it does pay give us a
call if you need something, no problems with that.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
It's interesting you brought that triplet bearing news before as well,
dryl knowing that a lot of farmers are getting more
threes or a lot more threes than they used to
different freight requirements there. Use, they can be a pain
in the bat, but when lambs the way it does,
you got to try and make every dollar account well.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
Obviously you will struggle and that late pregnancy struggle to
take on enough energy to feed threes and keep your
body condition. So you need to feed them.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
You know.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
The idea of the nuts is their energy dense. You
don't need to feed a lot to give that you
are real boost. So that's a pretty good option going forward.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Definitely, what about Dearing, That's what's the state of play there.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
We actually sell a lot of velvet nuts year on year.
The velvets, we just sell more and more and they
go all over the place. We send them to Canterbury
obviously one ton to Mauritius. Yeah, that hasn't we haven't
got any more into there, but you know, like how
we want to get a lot of d nuts go
all over the place and not mainly for velvet production,
so they're high and bypass protein things like organic zinc
(31:13):
and so on for valve production. So quite a scientific
product but obviously pays the dividends. They're sell very well
and as I said, you're a year, we're selling more and.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
More, so you reckon the Mauritius deal was a one off.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
Well at the stage we're still trying to get the
paperwork done with their equivalent to our math or MPI.
They want to know everything and even some stuff we
don't know, but they're working. AIRPI are working with any
intrutions to make sure they get all the paperwork sorted.
So quite a fringe it process to get feed into there.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
I still think about a hell of a text break
takes relief. If you are able to go over with
you of mex for caval of.
Speaker 7 (31:51):
Days, well, I'd love to, and it may happen down
the track.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
You never know.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
I wanted to go and sort the paperwork in person.
That'll be a great scheme, wouldn't it.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Absolutely Now Natalie Crystal Let's talk about nutritionists. We talk
about Natalie more often than not, and where we get
her on the muster for a chair and she just
knows her stuff when it comes to the needs of
animal health requirements and of course being the nutritionist for
Sergeant Dan, she's all over things.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yeah, she is.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
Natalie is quite a well traveled person. I mean she
consults you know, through Australia and Asia Pacific, so she's
not just based or she's based in New Zealand, but
quite a knowledge and a lot of different classes stop.
So we rate her knowledge and that's why we think
her product is recently good. It's pretty sound and her
(32:41):
formulations are quite robust. And by that I mean if
we put a speck on the bag to say this
is twenty percent protein and so much energy, so much starts,
we're well and truly over that.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
You know.
Speaker 7 (32:50):
We test our products regularly at the lab and we're
always coming back probably higher than i'd like. You know,
now now in theory it's too conservative, but would rather
be that way.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Roll talk about a Fuddy Darrell because we can the
stags against Manoo two. The least said the better. But
the NPC in general is a is a grasping your
imagination or you're all over the abs doing this bot door.
Speaker 7 (33:16):
Oh I know, I'm quite keen of follow the av's
over there. But the one, you know, the Southern game
was very disappointing at the end, but I thought the
Otago Canbary game was again disappointing that unfortunately I lost
that shield, But that's a good game Rugby. I enjoyed that.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Actually, we're all I think we're all by Plenty fans
this week in I want to see the shield go
up to write a rule. They haven't held it since
two thousand and four. That was the only time they
held it. I got no issues of the bio platy
wedding and keep it in the regions.
Speaker 7 (33:45):
Yeah, well, I'm Kenebary who had a Plenty and they
don't really do it justice. I think so. No, I'd
prefer it to go to one of our other unions.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Absolutely, this is like the eighteenth time that Canterbury's won
it or something ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
Yeah, well, they've had it a bit much and they
tend to hold on for too long and so it's
spinning around. I think it's a good scheme.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yeah, sare the love right satin, dan stock foods. If
people do want to get on the blow of Daryl,
what's your.
Speaker 7 (34:06):
Digits eight hundred Sgt dam Darren.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Moyles always appreciate your time on the muster and good luck.
It's pretty busy over there. Keep up the good work.
Speaker 7 (34:17):
Yeah, good to talk to any Thank you.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Darren Moyles is sageant dan stock food. Any animal health
requirements you want want, just get in touch with Darrel
Ludtine there. Next on the muster, we're going up to
the Jordland Basin and catching it with Harry McCallum out
of Young Farmers. Harry McCallum joins us this afternoon. He
(34:45):
is based up a bearwood station and part of Tiano
Young Farmers. Harry, Good afternoon, ground conditions up there in
the basin. How are you looking.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
We're not looking too bad at the moment. Yeah, sun's
out and just slowly starting to get dry up. But
now we're looking pretty good. S fishy today anyway, it's
good to be out up.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
How damn panda foot are you?
Speaker 5 (35:05):
They had not too bad? I mean she's still probably
gummy's on the crop peddocks, but others getting a bit dry.
Which was awesome and I think the long forecasts saying
the same as well.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Farmers. You guys have been pretty active are the over
the past We were whisping, hitting.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
Otty busy. We went to the meeting last last week.
It was pretty good bit of messive turnout twenty five
and the meeting, so that was pretty cool. Yeah, what
have we been up to. We sent a bit of
a crew down to the Delta piece shoot the other
day and the team they bastually went alund Actually they
ended up taking up the comp the year, which was
(35:44):
awesome to see for a few of the leads and
girls competed in that we've been up to. I did
a whata tana did a car trial on Saturday last
weekend just down a Riversdalde and yeah it was a
bit of a head as well and that was real good.
Sof been out and about as such as the club.
A few fundraisers' sort of here and there. Got a
(36:06):
few in the pipeline as well. Just get a bit
of money games through the bank and yeah, pushback of
come to the party. We're doing a bit of merch
for the club as well. We've just got embroidered a
heap of bush black jackets and etechs and some one
on jerseys just sort of show the label sort of
around the district when we're there representing or helping out,
(36:28):
so that we're in a real positive space.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
It's a good turnout for your meetings. Knowing that I
can vary as that standard for what you've hit over
the past six months.
Speaker 5 (36:37):
Or so, Yeah, pretty much is Actually I'm kenny because
I reckon. The worst meeting we have ahead was the
AGM because no Bago wanted the jobs, so I think
we had nine to the hit and they all got filled.
But yeah, the meeting after that, we yeah, sort of
just plus twenties, which is positive, and always one or
two new faces coming along as well, which is really
positive to say. So no one's not really being a hermit.
They sort of hear what we're sort of up to
(36:59):
and really want to be a part of it and
get a fit of an approachable club as well. Always helps.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Are people actually scared of going to a GMS given
they may get a job? Do you see?
Speaker 5 (37:07):
Do you find that absolutely sort of?
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (37:10):
When I was sort of twenty, I tried to avoid
them on the plague and I don't want to. I
don't want anything to do with them. But no, they're
not that bad. And if you've got a really good
support crew around you are a really good exec team.
It's a really good way to slowly introduce your sefen
to some of those leadership roles through young farmers now
are always in the future, trackdown and to and to
work opportunities as well. Always looks good in the resume.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Now the pist shoot, I hope this written down as
Pitt shoot, but I put the use in the edge
because that's indeed what it was. Yeah, like you say,
you guys got some big numbers.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
Yeah, no, I didn't. Actually I didn't actually take part
in it. I was in I was saying, that's Stag Day.
It was a bit of a bugger that they be
able to decide to run that on Stag Day. I
think there's a few of the few that Upset Sappen
does about that sort of cutter, but that's what it is.
But yeah, the people that Darcy jack Edlin Wilson, a
lot of those leads, Jackie Vocet year, they all got
(38:05):
a monkst it And yeah, I had a real good
couple of days of the day favorite spotlighting and he
gave the basement bit of a clean up. So that
was really good.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
So memo for future years when shown Willy comes out
and says Stag Days some petty day for south Anders.
Take no, don't plan events.
Speaker 7 (38:20):
Yeah no, that's.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
Definitely a sleep on my hands to Balfalore. They probably
should never do that again, or especially on Stag Day's.
It's it's religious.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
The car troll that was why tiny that organized? It
wasn't what you said, Yeah, yep did that.
Speaker 5 (38:33):
That was a good headay they did sort of went
around all of half a northern Tafland and a few
tasks and stuff like that, sort of went horn and
then of course funished up at the boozer at Riversdale.
So that ends up being a good night, good day
as well.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
How long does it take you to get around northern
south and an avilion?
Speaker 5 (38:50):
Oh we hadn't done reveelions. I think we actually did it.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
And but yeah, what was your big what vehicle did
you take? You cut out? What did you have?
Speaker 5 (39:01):
Anyway, the wey took three years, two and a half
three years. It was wicked, sort of a round Otama Alpha.
It's lums and Saint Petty's Yeah, no, real, good day,
Robert afternoon.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
You still ever told me the vehicle you were cruising in.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
We'll move on.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
So what's happening on the horizon for you guys bearing
in minded us coming up to lambing slash carving season?
But you guys make an effort to catch up every
couple of weeks, even during the busy season.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
Yeah, we try and make it work. Usually love so
you can't land at nighttime, so if we do have
a catch up, we try and do it then just
as a club. But what are we going on for
o Targa south of the Actually they're actually running the
interior all night down a mandival that's on the twenty second,
So that's just all around like wall handling and the
(39:50):
shed sort of knowledge that's going to be a positive
open to go that's going to be really good for
people in the sheds, such when sharing's going on, whether
they don't it sort of prelim there or around that
Christmas time through the febry, it's going to be a
lot of knowledge has been learned at the vent sort
of night. Yeah, twenty ninth, that'll be sort of our
(40:11):
big one. That's what we think we're taking about eighteen
of us down to the Terrace Barkup. So the people
in town there haven't actually ventured over the gorge in
a long time, so it'd be good to get them
out and about and see the rest of the country potentially.
But now we've got a new dog trailer this year,
so we definitely want to try and get that out
and about. I think it's getting sended up tonight.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
I heard all about that the other day. Actually, it
sounds like an interesting contraption you got set up there.
Speaker 5 (40:39):
Yeah, no, it's it's unique. It's definitely got a warrant
and it's definitely registered. But it's going to be good.
I think we can get twelve thirty or dogs in there,
so that should be awesome.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Yea.
Speaker 5 (40:52):
If anyone wants to hire us US sharing bands take
up there, we probably will look after it. They'll be
the AUDEO as well.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Will You'll be surprised how many places do you have
a van that? Yeah, you're quite happy to hire out.
So you should get a couple of boys to be
someone on the basin with the spear of fifteen ser
Yeah surely.
Speaker 5 (41:08):
Yeah. The rugby bus yeah, no, there was another trip
we did, yeah, and carliston with the Channel Rugby Clubs.
We yeah, managed to rope enough people to jump on
the Folly bus and have a trip down there. I'm
not so sure how we got back, but it was
quite put it that way.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
And looking to the future, you guys, you've got your
back up in October, Yeah, October.
Speaker 5 (41:30):
Yeah, So that's another event that we're going to run.
Pretty excited about that, and we're coming into a fourth
year run on that and it just seems we're getting
bigger and bigger. So that'll be at the same venue.
I do I'm going to have a bit of a
mix up and I hear a rumor that we've got
a pretty handy MC coming to run that cutter for us,
if you know.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Yeah, I'll put the word to the ground for you
to see what he's like. See how questionable is Yeah.
Speaker 5 (41:54):
Yeah, but no, We're we're really excited about it this year.
So I think the money raised this year is going
to be going to the help of the Mayor swimming Pool.
So just another just in the base and we sort
of like to support as well. The last couple of
years we've been donating money money to Search and rescue
(42:16):
and marine search and rescue. So I always like to
always like to give back to.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
Clubs and such in the basin there So Tiana young
farmers Harry. If somebody wants to get in touch and
add to those twenty five members that you have coming
along to your meetings, what do they do?
Speaker 4 (42:33):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (42:34):
Pretty much just jump on the socials either on Instagram
or Facebook page. Or give the new chairman, Isla Edgkin
a bit of a bell. She's pretty friendly to talk to.
Even if it's outside of a meeting sort of thing.
You're more than welcome to come and help help out
of either a fundraiser or just come to one of
our events and catch up with us there you want
him get a free show out of it as well,
but real good for any bunch. I think the core
(42:57):
group's been the same group since we started the club
back up since twenty twenty one, twenty two, So that's yeah,
real friendly group, good group.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Part of you just back up the bust away. But
they get a free shot of what a free shure?
Oh free shure?
Speaker 5 (43:14):
Jeez?
Speaker 1 (43:15):
Head me wondering anyway, Bill, let you go. Always got
to catch up, buddy.
Speaker 5 (43:19):
Cheers and ladder.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
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the shows brought to you by Peter's Genetics. Quite a
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I'll right too heavy go there?
Speaker 7 (43:55):
And what did he go on again for.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
PGG once again present stock selling action which occurred at
the chows and snow wasn't there he was? On Thursday?
We are at Lausville. Sam Riley's on the ground, thanks
for PGG. Right, so get a Sam any here, you know, mate,
I'm about better now, got that out of the road.
Speaker 5 (44:11):
There we go.
Speaker 8 (44:14):
It's the reason a number of prime sheet coming in,
Prime lambs coming in small yarding stool sheet and just
a handful of store kettal in there as well.
Speaker 7 (44:22):
We'll kick it off.
Speaker 8 (44:23):
What I've seen a new record today for those primet
heavy prime lambs. The heavyes ranged from three hundred to
four hundred and eighteen dollars, So yes, they were, they
were big lambs. But yeah, four hundred and eighteen dollars
is yeah, not hundred sneeze did either. So the mediums
are two forty to two ninety nine, and the lightering
primes are two six to two thirty six handful of
thy The beasts of those are two hundred and twenty
(44:45):
six dollars. Those heavy good heavy years they were two
eighty to three hundred and twenty, the mediums too, twenty
to two seventy, and the lighter end years were one
sixty to one ninety, with a couple of rams and
eighty dollars under the store ambs the best of ours
two hundred two twenty, the mediums one seventy to one ninety.
In the lottery end stools at one thirty to one
(45:07):
fifty just a handful of prawns and today heaps four
hundred and forty klos they were four dollars seventy, heapers
three seventy four hundred and nine klos three dollars seventy
to four dollars ninety five over deary heap of sorry
hels four hundred and seventy five klokos three dollars fifty
(45:27):
and foive hundred and ninety klokos three dollars eighty under
the store kettle just a raceful of mainly yealing kettle.
Quite are two here for cross years at five hundred
and ten kg's two thousand, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Mark two here for cross heapers at four hundred ninety
to five hundred and twenty ks. They were two thousand
and five hundred and seventy to two thousand, six hundred
(45:49):
and ninety dollars. IR one here for.
Speaker 9 (45:51):
Cross years one hundred and eighty five kilows on thy
ten dollars. Murray Gray cross Ye's at one hundred and
eighty five kg's as well nine hundred dollars from I
I one here for cross heapers at one ninety KOs
one thousand dollars, and I one here for cross heapers
at two hundred and forty three ks play with twelve
hundred and eighty dollars.
Speaker 8 (46:09):
So yeah, everything's selling. Reason well, that wraps up man
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