December 11, 2025 • 43 mins
Andy Muir talks to Don Morrison, Phil Duncan, Michelle Watt, Shane Young and Nick Bewley.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the muster on Hakanui Andy
Meoi hear into two o'clock of course, thanks the Peters Genetics.
Welcome along for Friday with overcast sky's greeting you as
you come in to go this afternoon, if you're planning
or doing some Christmas shopping, getting some oil filters, picking
up whatever groceries you name it. We'll talk the weather shortly.
We're film dunking in a little bit more context. But
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up next, up next, actually we're going to.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Do the weather. But the music today is Michael Stipe
and Rim.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Hakanui's five day forecast with twin farm tear from and
saft text. The proof is in the progeny tear from
dot Co dot inzead.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Friday afternoon shells of breezy sal Westleys and fifteen Saturday
Hartley cloud. You have come variable wins seven and twenty two.
Sunday partly cloudy with like nor easterlies thirteen and twenty four,
Monday rain developing a breezing north easters nine and twenty three,
and Tuesday thunder shellers thunderstorms disposed of westerlyes forming six
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and sixteen sochembages to Hanad Northern South and fifteen point
one normn South and fourteen point seven Clinton.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Fifteen point one.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
There we go Tew sixteen point one toid Row of
fifteen wind and fourteen point three of Woodland's fourteen point eight.
Don Morrison farming at Willow Bank, starts off for Muster
for a Friday afternoon, followed up by Phil Duncan out
of weather Watch looking at the southern weather for the
next seven days, Michelle Watt and the Country Crossover.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Then we catch up with Shane Young.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
If you want to win attractor for a pretty minimal outlay,
here's the opportunity in your chance to go in the
draw for that. And then Nick Newley out of news
Talk ZB looks at the crack at how the West
Indies on the ropes, losing quite a few wickets in
the session. Before we yeah, I'd say this game will
be all over and done with for today, although the
last test told us nothing is actually as it seems
(02:08):
with the black Cats, so without further ado, just as
well done. Before I go, if anybody has a couple
of square bails in the vicinity of God that we
could borrow for the Christmas Parade on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
If you could just get a hold of us here
text and we'll get a hold of you. Just email
us on the Muster on Hockey New Facebook.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Page might be the best way, and we'll try and
get a couple of bails sorted for the Christmas Parade
on Sunday. That'll be really appreciated it anyway, we'll crank
on with things now, starting the hour with Don Morrison.
This is the Muster until two o'clock thanks to Peters
Genetics away to willow Bank this afternoon on the Muster,
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Don Morrison farming out that way, Good afternoon, how we it's.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Not that indy but a great leading. Yeah, a couple
of a couple of good albums from r em over
over that period. Yeah, some really good music.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, nothing nothing for you comes close to our Jefferson
starship though, am I correct?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
No, no, no, just a bit of knowledge on Jefferson stars.
I think I'd probably wade Ram above them on my
on my hit list Andy, So yeah, no, good leading.
So how's everything looking at willow Bank as a really
good in terms of up to date with the work.
You know, we've we've been working hard those trees and
clean upset us back a bit with that winds, but
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the crops are all in the what else we done,
had a really good start to the season of ram selling.
We've just got the top are out the last couple
of days and next next week will be weaning drenching,
so big week. But we just fear we're working hard,
but we feel we're under control.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So how long's weaning going to take?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Now?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Weening will probably take us a week because with all
the stud sheet, we've got wail the lambs, and so
we do marves each day. We'll drink, we'll wean, we'll
weigh the lambs, we'll drench, and we'll mailed us and
get them ready for sharing. So you know, we just
worked through marves at a time. We're we're actually only
going to wean the stud us and but drink all
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the commercials and they will be weaned after New Year.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
So Indy, I hope to share.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
The sharing. We'll get all the we'll get all the
US and malt hopefully this week, so we can get
them shorn after the New year too. We'll get Cody
in and his team and yeah, get them. Sure, we've
already got all the old US away, so we've got
where we do the prep and lamb the older US first,
so they're gone. So it's really just you know, another
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half of the US still to go through, and we'll
another half the number to go again.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Well, that simplifies everything. If you've already got the freezers gone.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Makes it really easy. Andy. We always lamb them early
in August, the lambs of it earlier, so we've got
them weaned, the good number of those lambs away at
those good prices, and those US gone too, which just
certainly always reduces the feed demand right now. Makes it
a bit easier on Cody and his team to get
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some lap, to get some used done early before the
pressure comes on. And yeah, just a weave a bit
of prep. You know, the prep starts now. When we
put all these use over, we'll mail them with anything
else that needs to go will be identified, but we'll
also identify next year's one year users such at this stage,
and they'll go onto a mob to be prepared from
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here on and to be mated earlier.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
There is a twelve month sharing the hell you or
what's your sharing raising?
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:39):
We all three a month sharing. Sorry, look, it's not
ideal for the wall because we generally share February March.
It's not the best for wall quality, and there's probably
a couple of months where the US they've got a
little bit much wall, but it works really good with
our wintering so that they've got enough wall but not
too much when they're on the window crops and still
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not a long wall come lending time with cast us.
So we used to be in eight month sharing or
a six month sharing, but just with the wall prices
now we've gone back to that twelve months.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Well, if the wall price rebounding to a degree, would
you go back to say six and nine months sharing?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Absolutely, it's better for the animal. You've got a better
far better monitoring of body condition, score, far better quality
of wall. And it's just the economics around at Andy,
So we'll certainly revisit that. Yeah, I like the six
month and the eight month sharing.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Now, of course you've got a bit of cannabis out
there that you're growing. It sounds as a bit of
regulations come through from the government this week around the
growing of crops like this, But from your operation, how
much exactly do you put in?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Look, we've got three and a half Hector's license. We
could put up to seven thousand plants probably on that,
but we've got considerably lower. It's still in these expiratory years.
I guess we'll fine tuning at practices and husbandry. Andy.
So we've had up to five thousand plants, but we're
finding we're getting considerably better yields. If we can effectively mother,
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if we can manicure each plant, if we can if
we can trim, if we can manage it, we're getting
considerably higher yields per plant and a far better quality
flower product. So that's that's where we are this year.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
So there's quite a lot of labor involved with it.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
It's really labor intensive, Andy. It's it's like it's like
having a great big vegetable garden. We're actually planting yesterday,
so you plant every every plant individually. We've double staked them,
and now we'll be monitoring each of those plants right through. Well.
I guess once we can develop some really good pathways,
which we think we're in that position now, it could
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be a really significant regional employer because once we, you know,
start ramping up our numbers an area, then you're we're
going to need to employ a lot of people to
manage those plants and then involved in the in the
harvesting and processing of it down the track. So I
think a great opportunity for regional employment with a low
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fertilizer regenerative crop.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
So how many staff do you have looking at the
crop at the peak of the season.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I suppose we're good.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Jay, who's our one full time partner in our cannabis operation.
She comes with a legacy knowledge, great expertise. So this
is our fifth year. We've been learning off her the
whole time. But we had five of us in the
paddock planting yesterday and yeah, so it takes a few people.
But what we're using is basically the resources on the farm,
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the cultivation, existing farm equipment is all fine for your
cultivation and prep and then we're just using the labor
force on the farm to you to fill in for
that cannabis labor.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Just finally, as well, your time has come to an end,
as being as as being part of the Alliance board
down meets have gone in there interesting season he head
for land. Regarding prices, I suppose Howie.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
And we were all enjoying some really really strong red
meat prices in the in the in the ovine and
the bovine space. So you know, we want to enjoy,
you want to celebrate those prices we're getting. Look, I
guess when you when you get in that space, you're
always a little nervous of what comes next. Where we're
always aware of the chance for correction. Talking to some
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friends in Europe, you know, involved in distribution, they really
see it we're not going to get I don't think
we're going to get a correction and lamb price until
we get a correction and beef price. So given that
that dynamics, I guess it's watched that whole America space
pretty closely and and what's just going to happen with
their economy. Are we going to get a little bit
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of a check come the stock market come those midterms
elections next year. I see that as probably being the
next the next challenge to beef prices, and that would
possibly have a flow onder lamb prices. But I'm certainly
not a crystal ball goo. They're just using some analytics
from past but elections over those last ten ten election
cycles in the States, and that's certainly seen a stock
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market dip or crash. Always in that midterm election second year.
So yeah, just watching that space, are.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
We seeing anything in the way of teriff having a
flow on effect with beef prices?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Now we look, it doesn't seem to I know, certainly.
I think most of the importers have passed on that
tariff to their consumers. And that's what we're reading when you,
if you want to read your American American economy stats
at the moment that certainly the commercial public is hurting
a bit from an uplifting prices. So no price and
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demand is still really good for us as exporters.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Hey, good on you.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
How we will leave it there. Thanks very much for
your time on the master of this year. You bridge
it in the family, enjoy a bit of a break.
We'll do it all again next year.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Thank you, Andy, and the same to all your great
staff in there and that personally look to a catch
up and a good catch up with you, Andy, So
thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Don Morrison funny out at Willow Bank, you're listening to
the muster Phil Duncan from weather Watch. He gives us
a rundown on the southern weather for the next seven days.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
That's up next.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Starting to catch up once again, on the muster was
full Duncan from weather Watch. That is what you call
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a double shot from the nineties, Full Duncan of weather Watch.
Good afternoon, how's everything been this week?
Speaker 5 (11:53):
It has been a very busy week, and it's got
that feeling like, you know, the year is ending because
you go for a drive and you see school kids
not at school and people mowing lawns that you know,
during the what would normally be a work day and
sort of got that feeling like why am I still working?
You know, I kind of want to switch off. Plus,
it's been really really hot up here, so finding on
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a cool change today.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
So how busy is it for you in the lead
up to Christmas? From a meteorological viewpoint.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
It's pretty busy because there are a lot of people
doing stuff like they you know, there's a lot of
Santa parades on, there's people getting gardens ready for Christmas,
and a lot of people obviously wanting to know Christmas
Day and the lead up to it, and so it's
busy from that point of view. And the difference is
it's not like there's a big injection of people that
are from the towns like townys are a lot more
interested than the city people in the weather than maybe
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they are in the middle of winter when it's you know, okay,
it's just going to be cold and showery. They sacked
it into two weeks, whereas farmers came to be a
lot more paying attention to every detail. So that changes
in December. You get a lot more of the city
people following every detail of what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
So in a nutshell down and there in the south,
what have we got? And the lead out to the
end and the lead out the Christmas I suppose.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Well, I'm going to put it this way. It is
my positive way of framing it. Oh God, there's as
you probably know, there are a couple of dates to
start each season, and the meteorological date is the start
of December, so first of December that's when we start
so summer. But the more scientific one, the astronomical start
to summer is literally to do with the Earth's rotation
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around the sun. That doesn't occur to the longest day
of the year, which is coming up. I think it's
December twenty second around them, right, That is the moment
summer technically starts. So if you go by the astronomical date,
we are still in spring for another week or so,
which explains the weather pattern we've got at the moment.
It's just my way of saying, you've got spring weather
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and temperatures up and down coming up over the next
several days, right through until round about those few days
before we get to Christmas.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
So theoretically speaking, we're into a spring mode and till
in the middle of September, and we can almost say
Christmas summer should be going through onto March.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Yes, that's right, I mean, and a lot of you know,
when I was a kid, that's how I always heard
the seasons being described. In the Northern Hemisphere. They'd always
go so, you know, summer starts around June twentieth and
or twenty first and in the Northern Hemisphere, and winter
starts December twenty one. And it never made sense to
me because we started on the first of the months
and then realized, oh, there's two dates. One for meteorological bookkeeping,
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that's the one that starts at the you know, the
calendar month, because it's easy to do it that way,
but really technically, from a planetary point of view, summer
starts around about the about December twenty second. Let me
see what it is this year. The summer solstice date
this year is, yeah, the twenty second of December at
precisely four oh two in the morning. So that's when
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summer officially starts. Well, there is no official start, but
that's the that's the mother nature one, I guess.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
So it's either the twenty first or the twenty second
of December being the summer solstice.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
No definitive date.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Because it's a specific time. And so it's when the
Earth is at a certain point right of maximum sunlight
into the southern hemisphere, and that happened at an exact
moment four oh two in the morning. And then when
you get to the autumn equinox in March, it'll be
another specific time. And because of that, and because our
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calendar changes every year, right, we have leap years and things,
so that date is always moving around a few days, right,
and the time is always changing, but it's always within
a couple of days. So roughly, you say about the
twenty second or twenty first of December and twenty first
twenty second of March, and then you go into obviously
June and then September.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
There is so much to entail when it comes to
the weather.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
It's not just looking at the sky and pointing and
saying it's sunny or its raining. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
And on top of that, our location on Earth means
that I think we've got very short summer and winter seasons.
We have I think two months of summer and two
months of winter. The rest of it all just a
long spring and a long autumn when a lot of windy,
westerly days with showers.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
True, yeah, yeah, I understand that. Right.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
So down here in the what some people call the
southwest southwest corner of the country, we call it the
Deep dirty South. Here in Southland, what have we got
for the next seven days?
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Fell Well, you guys in the in the northern part
of the Deep South, you have up and down temperature.
So today's a cooler day, definitely, Temperatures are down today
with that more southerly twist. Tomorrow it's not brutal, but
tonight's temperatures are down a bit, you know, sort of
We're seeing fours, fives and sixes tonight for some areas
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in northern Southlands, so it's a little bit colder. Tomorrow
warms up to twenty two degrees even warmer on Sunday,
subtropical or northwest of flow coming in. Then twenty four
or twenty five degrees more northerly is on Monday. But
then the next cold change arrives Tuesday and Wednesday, and
then it looks like it will get even colder next weekend.
I'm seeing only thirteen is the high six the low
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on Saturday night next weekend, not this one. So it's
still a bit unsettled. But we are seeing some high
pressure zones potentially coming in around Christmas time, so you know,
we might not have terrible weather, but I think you're
gonna get some rainfall coming through and Southend does sort
of stand out, aweedit in that area that you've got
probably thirty forty milimeters coming up in the next week
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in some areas, and if you get a thunderstorm that
could go higher.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
So the lead after Christmas that is going to continue
being unsettled, yep, it is.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Yeah, We've got injections of sort of northerly and northwesterly airflows,
so that'll lift the temperatures up, and then we're going
to see more west to southwest changes because the southern
Ocean it's still quite stormy. It's not maybe as messy
as it's been, but it's got a bit of a pattern.
But at the moment, in the next couple of weeks
in particular, and for the last week we've just had,
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the Southern Ocean weather pattern is stormier and it's what
they call it. It's what they call SAM, the Southern
annular mode. It's gone negative. And simply when that goes
into that negative phase, all it means is we've got
a lot of windy, westerly weather like it's spring or
autumn over the Southern Ocean. So that's a normal thing
to happen, and it's just happening at the moment in December.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
As far as this wind we're seeing, last week a
few more trees came down, nothing as vicious as oucked over,
but we're still seeing it every now and then. We're
going to continue as well with the wind. Unfortunately, Yeah,
we are.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
In fact, I in my final article for the Farmer's
Weekly newspaper out next week, I actually wrote about this
saying how we're from a weather point of view. Twenty
twenty five produced very few weather complaints from farmers and
growers around the country. I mean the usual grizzles when
we've had too much of something, but nothing serious other
than how dry the east of the country was becoming,
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especially Hawks Bay and some of those big thunderstorms we
also had, but in particular Southland, because Southland had this
very cold, windy spring and winter, but spring particular, and
those windy conditions are now kind of popping up as
one of those complaints like the dry weather and Hawke's
favors repetitive noise I keep hearing, and so I think
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that the wind has obviously been a problem. It's not
as bad as you say is October, but we're still
seeing it surging up and down, while we're still see
the southern ocean pretty active. That should ease, I think
as we go towards Christmas, but we may still have
it off and on up until then.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
You're going to be interesting. Phil Duncan and a weather
watch for the next seven days. We'll see how that
files will catch up with you one last time for
twenty twenty five this time next week.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Thank you very much, as always my pleasure.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Had a great weekend.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Phil Duncan, have.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Weather watch here on the Muster every Friday next we're
away to Dunedin. It is a country crossover with Michelle
Watt What in the country crossover? Joins us this afternoon.
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Good afternoon, Michelle.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
Afternoon, and our last chat for twenty twenty five. It's
come around very quickly, hasn't it?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
This The year has gone really really quick.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
And I don't know how would you summose, summarize the year.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
Ah, it's been a tough one, I think for most people,
hasn't it. I mean, originally it was twenty five survive.
I think that definitely was the case. This year, twenty
five survive. Hopefully it definitely wasn't thrived for a lot
of people, and hopefully next year is a little bit different.
And onwards and upwards.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I say, what was it when he said to Jamie
used today fixing twenty six.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
You have fixed in twenty six. Let's hope. Let's hope
that happens. Mind your election year next year, so should
be reasonably entertaining. That feels like it's come around very
quickly as well.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Before we start, I'm going to give you some stats fascinating.
Which animal do you think is the most considered the
strongest considering what it can pull in relation to body weight.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Oh, I'm going to say some sort of ant or
something like that.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Continue, Yep, you're close, right. The dung beetle capable of
pulling eleven hundred times its own body weight, the rhinoceros
beetle eight hundred and fifty times, and the leaf cutter
and fifty times. The strongest overall animal was the African
bush elephant, although the gorilla is the strongest primate, capable
of lifting ten times as body weight. The harpy eagle,
the strongest barrier, can lift pray twice its own weight,
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and Harry Wilson is the strongest Australians a number eight
because he had to carry the Wallabies all year.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
That's a good one idea like that. Did you come
up with that on your own?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Yeah? I did.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I thought that Mark Kelly every morning on the Country
Sport Breakfast is or what do you know? So I
just try and produce a random fact for him, and
I come up with that fact about the dung beetle
this morning.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
That's very good. I'd say that's fact of twenty twenty
five for me.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Well, there you go. AI. We're hearing all about AI.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
And the way it is coming out are you concerned
about the way that's evolving in such a rapid capacity.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
It's interesting, Andy, So I don't think you knew this
about me, but when I studied psychology university, one of
my papers was actually heavily based around AI at the time,
which at the time it wasn't as big as it
is now. So AI to me, it's very useful. It's
got its place. Unfortunately, the gate has been opened, Okay,
so it's already. It's out there. It's doing its thing.
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It's learning at a rapid pace. So the more information
people put into it, the more it's learning how we operate,
and it can pick out anything from all over the Internet,
which is both useful and also terrifying for a lot
of reasons. But we've just got to learn how to
live with it now, I think, and use it to
its best as a tool for things, but hopefully it's
not used for evil.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Well.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I read about a government scenario over in Europe. They're
planning for two things, nuclear warfare and AI taking over
as such, and that would ever be a thing.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
Yeah, it reminds me of all those movies that we
saw when we were kids about AI robots taking over
all sorts of things like that, and whether that could
actually be a reality, I don't know. I mean, for me,
you know law of robotics that they can't harm humans,
that's actually one of the laws of robotics. But AI
could have learned the point that I guess the biggest
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worry for people is could it learned to the point
that humans are their own demise because of all the
information that's out there, it might put that together. Because remember,
AI doesn't have emotion. It's not human, so it can't
It can gather information, it can make answers based on
that information, link things together and sort of comprehend things,
I guess in a way, but it can't have that
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emotional input that a human has, so it doesn't have that.
So it could be interesting in the future, especially as
it evolves with the revolves to that.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Have you just thought of this off the top of
your head.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Oh yeah, I think about this stuff all the time.
AOI is a bit of a passion of mine.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
That's really interesting. I swore you would have wrote that down.
That is really well said.
Speaker 7 (23:48):
I'm smarter than you think your intelligence for.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
A moment, I mean, our clues to represent You're.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Just putting them up in lights with facts like that,
that's outstanding.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
Well, it is my own opinion. But from the reading
I've done, I think Ai. You know, like I said,
it has its place, It doesn't have emotion, whether it
can learn that or not. It will learn how humans
interact with each other because it will be able to
learn that from online and the way people interact with
each other via videos and all sorts of things in
certain situations. But whether it can apply that so precisely
that a human does, or whether it'll apply it black
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and white, that's what the future holds.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Social media band in Australia for under sixteens? Is this
going to work?
Speaker 7 (24:28):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (24:28):
For me?
Speaker 7 (24:28):
I think that floodgate has already opened as well, and
unfortunately Andy, I think also young people are the ones
that grew up with this. You and I had it
enter into our lives later. We didn't have it, you know,
we didn't have it when we were under sixteen. We
had it after that. So we've learned to live with it,
learned to interact with it. Whereas kids now are growing
up with it, and I'm not sure if that's worse
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or better removing it. We know prohibition doesn't work, you know.
I mean history will tell us prohibition does not work.
So whether this will play out or not, I don't know.
I think these days, younger kids or younger teenagers especially
are a lot smarter than the rest of us when
it comes to technology, and they'll probably figure out a
way to get back on social media. Does it cause harm, Yes,
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it does, But I think a lot of it is
to do with education as well, and educating people about
how to limit that harm because it's going to be
there forever. It's not going away.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
But it's a.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Sad reflection of society, the way that we rely on technology,
the way we do case and point their conversation before.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
Oh definitely. I think if anything, during the summer holiday break,
if people can remove themselves from those things and have
an actual break from it, it does make a massive
difference to your mental reset. You don't realize until you
take it away. But I think it has its place.
It's a useful tool. It's created a lot of different
connections and a way to connect for people that we
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didn't have before. I mean, I used to have pen pals, Andy.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Did you We had pen pears about for school and
Standard three mus Chapman's class shares from Mega Tafari up
in Auckland, and we all write to people from that
class at the time.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Yeah, And I mean, you wouldn't do that anymore, would you,
because you can go and hunt someone down on Facebook.
But I think the issue with social media for me
is that you don't know if that person is the
real person anymore. And the biggest fear is people stealing
identities also pretending to be someone they're not, and that
is scary because it makes it a lot easier, I think.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Just finally as well, it's the official survey is out
regarding what is the major protein on Kiwi tables this
summer or for Christmas. I suppose they took a thousand
people as a snapshot sample. Forty two percent said lamb
would be the hero protein, porker ham thirty percent, and
beef thirteen percent.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I question those figures.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
It's interesting, isn't it. I mean, it was only a
thousand people, so really that's quite a small survey. It
depends on who they surveyed as well in that survey,
but it's done annually. It's a bit of a you know,
it's one of those things that comes along at Christmas
and we get it as a media relation and it's
a nice little thing to talk about, but I think
was the cost of living. It really prize me that
lamb was ahead, especially with the price of red meat
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at the moment. I would have thought pork would have
been ahead. Actually, but what are you having on your
dinner table?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
It's pretty traditional as far as the Christian we don't
do lamb as such. We take lamb when we go on.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Holiday and have a feeder of the likes too, but
like you say, it's just a very expensive protein now
for the consumer to get it is.
Speaker 7 (27:20):
And I think traditionally New Zealand's moving away from those
English style Christmas Day I mean obviously my husbands and Englishmen,
but we don't have turkey, although a few years we
have had it randomly depending on where we are, but
usually it's lamb or something of the likes. This year
to be a barbecue or something. I think things get
more casual as time goes on. It's about spending time
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with family, you know. It doesn't matter if it's a
sausage on the barbie or a league of ham or
a league of lamb. It doesn't really matter as long
as you're with the people that you love.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Good on you, Michelle, always appreciated your chats this year
on the muster.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Have a great holiday season in see in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 7 (27:58):
Likewise a Merry Christmas too, or the listeners down and
Gore in South Otago.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Michelle wat in the Country Crossover. Up next Shane Young
talking about how you can want to tractor.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
This interview is brought to you by Agricenter South branches
in Lawnville, Gore, Cromwell, Milton, and Ranfurly. Drop by your
local agri Center South branch today.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Throw your.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Shane Young is club vice president of the Central South
and Vintage Machinery Club. We caught up with Shane a
couple of weeks ago with the most awesome prize for
a one hundred dollars outlay. If you're the lucky recipient,
here to tell us all about how you can want
attract the next February Shane, good to catch up once again.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
Here you getting on Andy, Yeah, pretty good.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Look we caught up a couple of weeks ago. Just
reiterate to people what this is all about. This is
really cool.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Yeah, it's achievement. Central South and British Sinery Club raffling
off a new Holland tractor and being helped us by
CNH and egressing to sell the chipping in to give
us a hand with this. So we're raffling this tractor
off to build a new display shed.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Now tell us the speaks of the tractor and the
lives because it's a pretty good value on this.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
Yep, yep, that's well the value of it's one hundred
and seventy five thousand plus GST, so it's an over
turndred thousand dollars prize. It's one hundred and twenty five
horse pair six cylinder loader tractor capable of most jobs
on the farm. Likes pretty good prize.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Really, that's a hell of a good prize. And the
great thing is there's a captain amount of tickets. How
many tickets are available.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
There's three thousand turn of tickets for the raffle and
it's going to be drawn on Friday on the Aggressina
site at the field days.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
So it's a one in three thousand, two hundred chants
of winning this. That's better than lotto, for goodness.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Sake, it's a lot better than lotter.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
It's way better than Lotto, and of course it's going
towards a new shed for the Central Southland Vintage Machinery Club.
Just once again give people a bit of an understanding
about the club and what you're hoping to achieve.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
So the club is situated at the old dairy factory
site just out of Winton, on the edge of Winton
and we've basically just outground the premises and we're building
a new shed. We've done a heap of site work,
got all the gravel work done, got the polls stood up,
and now we're sort of just fundraising for the next stage,
which is getting the shed up.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
So it's been the amp show season.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
You've been going along to the shows and just getting
a bit of interest around this, I'd say.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Yep, yep. We've been to most of the local shows
up till now since it started on the sixteenth of November,
and the trac there will be at Milton this weekend,
it was at Wyndham last weekend. I think we're about
it for shows after this weekend at Milton until Winton
in January.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
The actual tractor will be at these at the show,
so we're getting it carded round and Yeah, the guys
on our aggreacy Decide at Milton will have it there
this weekend, so call in, catch up with them and
scan the barcode whatever you call it QR code and
you'll be away.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
So what happens when people buy a ticket? Do they
receive a notification as such or how does it all work?
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Yep, yep they do. You scan the code or you
type in www, dot win, a tractor, dot co, dot
z and it'll go in. You put all your details
in and then your email address and when you press submit,
you'll get an email what's your ticket number in your
email a couple of minutes later, so you'll know exactly
what number it is.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
So and the best thing is we've got one ticket
to give away for this straw here on the muster
as well, Shane.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
So what we're asking.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
People to do if you want to go in the
draw to win Lord to win one of these tickets
for the new Holand tractor with the team at Cecil
self and Vindors Machinery Club, text tractor five double oh night.
We'll do this draw around the middle of next week
and yeah, you're gonna you've got to be into win.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
That's all there is about it.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
Yep, that's right, that's right, and good, good opportunity to
give a Christmas present for someone or someone that's hard
to buy for. It's a good as a good prize.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
I mean, you can only have so many socks and
jocks in the old man's bloody cabinet, right, you need
to get something a bit more practical, nothing more practical
than a brand new new Holland sitting up the driveway.
Speaker 6 (32:27):
Well, that's right. There's a lot of people that would
really like that, and that's a good value prize and
it probably is probably is a bit nicer than a
new pair of jocks.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Again, although comfort has no you can't put a price
on comfort these days when you get older. Right Hey,
Just as far as Christmas parades and that over your
neck of the words, do you guys get involved with that.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Yeah, we we will be. We'll be having it at
I think the Christmas parade at Riveden was on Christmas Eve.
I'm pretty sure it's going to be over there because
it'll be at the Riveted Races for the the first
of January. I think they have awesome they have the
Rivet and Racers. It'll be there helping out round the
track and yeah it'll be over there, and yep it'll
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definitely be at the Riveton Christmas Breade on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
So once again text tractor to five double oh nine
to be in the draw to win a brand new
new Holland tractor courtesy of Central Self and Vintage Machinery Club.
It's going to be drawn drawn at the Southern Field
Days at Way Mumu in February. Shane Young of Central
Self and Vintage Machinery Club, thanks very much for your
time on the muster.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Always good to catch up.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
Yep, no, thank you very much and cheers for everyone
getting in behind it. It's awesome to see.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Thank you, Shane Young of the Central South and Vintage
Machinery Club. Once again, text tractor to five double oh
nine to go in the drawer to win one of
these tickets to go into the draw.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
So it's a sub draw.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
For another draw if you understand. But it's all about
winning a new Holland tractor and that's thanks to the
team at Central Self and Vintage Machinery Club.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Nick Bewley's up next to wrap up the week here.
Speaker 9 (34:04):
Shaney.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Man, Welcome back to the muster, remembering text and Tract
at a five double a nine to put your name
in the draw thanks to the Central South and Vindors
Machinery Club. Put your name forward to get into the
main draw to win that new holand tractor of course
at Southern Field Days next year. Nick Bewley of New
storg zvy, good afternoon. If you want to win attractor,
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this is your revenue.
Speaker 9 (34:33):
Good to know, Andy, I don't think attractively too much
use in suburban christ Church, but that sounds like a
cracking prize, yeh play.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Hey, look we're at lunch at the Test ninety eight
for six the Windy's. I think it's just got underway
actually again, but this game understandably so or unfortunately injuries
and yeah, just not longevity into a five day format
being the key at the moment.
Speaker 9 (34:59):
Yeah, it has been sort of the story of this
Test series. I suppose we're going to cast our minds
back to the last week with Matt Henry and Nathan
Smith and the fast bowling department, Tom Blundell just you know,
running between the wickets and tweaking a hamstring as well.
You know, I can't really recall the last time three
players and a playing eleven went down in the same
(35:19):
Test match, and then the just innoxious nature of which
Blair Tickner got injured on the final league boundary yesterday,
just you know, trying to prevent a boundary and dislocates
his shoulder having taken a fourth in the first innings. Yeah,
I'm not sure exactly what it is, you know, some
you know, I think that example there with Tickner is
(35:41):
just extraordinarily unfortunate Lutch. But some of these sort of
soft tissue ones, the stress fractures in the back, when
you look at guys like Willow Rourke and Kyle Jamieson
and the like over the last couple of years, I
think there probably is a bit more of a you know,
if you dive a little bit deeper into the strength
and can listening in preparation to red ball cricket, when
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there's just such a constant diet of limited overs cricket,
particularly in the T twenty format, it probably is something
that requires further examination.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
I know.
Speaker 9 (36:11):
Actually, Rob Walter, the relatively new Black Caps coaches, come
from in SNC background, and he'll be very wary of
the nature of which the fast bowling department in particularly
has to go very deep into the playing stocks to
find a Michael Ray, for example, out of formerly Otago
now Canterbury to make it Test debut. So it has
(36:33):
been quite a curious series. But in saying that, I
think it's a real not to first class cricket and
the playing pets of guys as mentioned like Michael Ray,
like Mitchell Hayes here on debut, the batting wicket keeper
from Canterbury, that they do not look overawed by the
occasion of international Test match cricket. What have we got
(36:53):
Michael Ray now he took three for in the first innings,
He's got Shay Hope here today in bold and Mitch
Hatop scoring that first innings with a really commanding sixty
one to put New Zealand in a really healthy position
and sharp behind the stumps too earlier today you know,
having a big saying that that runout that Michael Brashaw
(37:16):
also you know impacted. So yeah, it's been a curious
Test match in the sense that it's a playing eleven
that I don't think we will ever see you again. Andy,
But New Zealand in the box seat, as you say,
when they's ninety eight to six here in the second
session a leader. Just twenty five runs could very well
be if you're just finishing up work for your Friday
(37:39):
get in front of a TV or the alternative commentary
collective on radio, because it might be all done by dusk.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
I mean, we look at the bigger picture for the
black Cats, no more tests cracking until England in the
middle of next year. Then we got the Biggie the
tests over in Australia. This is a good chance to
see what depth we do actually have.
Speaker 9 (37:59):
I totally agree, and I think if there is one
player that could really push their case for the playing
eleven at full strength, who's playing here in this Test
match at the base and reserve, it would be Mitch Hay.
I think there isn't much in it when between Tom
Blundell and Mitch Hay. When Tom Blundle was fully thirty
(38:21):
five years of age, he's been the incumbent test work
keeper now since making his debut back in twenty seventeen.
The runs haven't quite been as there for some time now.
And I know it's one innings and one performance, but
Mitch Hay's averaging just to tick under fifty in Red
Bull cricket at plugshield level for category. Yeah, like I say,
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looks really assured behind the wickets as well, So that'll
be one to watch over the course of the next
twelve months, as he says, some really big fish to
come with England, Australia and India the Big three, so
that'll be one to watch, as will be with the
bowling stocks and from South in perspective Andy, everyone's championing
the efforts of Jacob Duffy and it was fantastic to see,
(39:05):
you know, his effort, particularly here in christ Yetch last week.
They're getting a maiden five for and I think he'll
be there or there about too, because we just don't
know where a Willow Rourke will be, you know, first
ever stress fraction in the back Kyle Jamison. They're just
uncertainty lingers about his fitness. You know. We hope Matt
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Henry will be there to spare ahead the attack, but
there is some Yeah, there's some interesting decisions to come
for Rob Walter and the returning convey of New Zealand Selectors,
Gavin Larson, over the next six or twelve months.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Right, but of a change attacks here's ce v Reese.
He's away over to France at the end of the
year contracted to the end. Zare will he be viewed
as a Crusaders great.
Speaker 9 (39:48):
Well, that's a good question. I think the short answer
is yes, purely, when all said and done, we look
at his record, he will leave. It's super rappy all
time try scoring record and a place that it might
not get anywhere near close ever. Again, it's currently at
sixty six from eighty eight games. You know, let's say
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hypothetically he plays I know, he really wants to get
to one hundred games, which which puts him again in
rear territory as a Crusader, so they'd say scores another
eight tries, you know, in the mid seventies. I think
he will go down as a great winner for the Crusaders.
It's just, you know, it's probably subjective in terms of
how far you go. There's been a lot of greats
(40:31):
of have played for the Crusaders over their thirty year history.
But yeah, I mean in terms of his playing legacy.
You know, he came down here around this time of
the year. Back in twenty eighteen to seven years ago
on a bit of a whim, he played NPC for Wakato.
He was actually due to go to Ireland, but says
contract was torn up by Connacht after he was before
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the courts for a domestic violence charge. He came down
here to the Crusaders and to say about seven years
ago as an extra body at training with a couple
of injuries, all of a sudden, gets to debut Round one,
scores a couple of tries. Within that twenty nineteen year,
he went from not even having a full time super
aby contract to scoring a bucket load of tries in
that first season for the Crazy Crusaders, into an All
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Blacks debut and played at the World Cup in Japan
in twenty nineteen and the rest is sort of history.
That's the tradutary his career has gone on. He's obviously
fallen out of the pecking order, down the pecking order
this year with the All Blacks such as their options
on the wing. But yeah, I think to answer your question,
I'm trying to wrack my brains just to who would
hold a candle to him on the wing in a
(41:37):
Crusaders yeersey Over the last thirty years, I know cayleb
Ralph played a lot of rugby for the Crusaders on
the wing and scored a lot of tries as well.
But he might be if you had to name a
legends fifteen over the last thirty years and for the Crusaders,
it probably would be.
Speaker 5 (41:52):
My right winger.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
As far as this contract with the Ends, and we
know that he came to Southland, he only played the
one he had made, the one of parents for them,
good old South.
Speaker 9 (42:02):
Memorable too from a memorable one two and they never
gave him the ball forty points.
Speaker 5 (42:07):
Did he touch the ball?
Speaker 2 (42:08):
No, he did it. They never passing the bloom and ball.
Speaker 9 (42:10):
It might be a problem.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
So so in PC is he hanging around.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
I don't know if he's resigned for south or not
for this year, whatever reason when he'd done that for
But so if he is hanging out with the Inda,
he's going to hang around New Zealand until the end
of the domestic season.
Speaker 9 (42:24):
So my understanding is that the New Zealand Araby contract
goes right through to the end of twenty twenty six
the Super Rugby. You know, the outside of outside chances
of him being selected for the All Blacks tour of
South Africa and the first round of the nation's championship
fixtures in July. I don't think that'll be on the cards,
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both from where he is in the picking order and
where his future lies. Yes, so there is an outside chance.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Nick Buley had a news dog, zib Thanks very much
for a musings this year. Enjoy the holiday season with
the family that's doing it all.
Speaker 9 (42:59):
Again, Nick year hy same to you, Andy, Merry Christmas,
and to all the listeners out there in the South,
particularly and Gore, I have some fantastic family time. We'll
catch you in the new year.
Speaker 8 (43:12):
Man laugh out loud with ag proud because life on
the land can be a laughing matter brought to us
by sheer well data working to help the livestock farmer.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
So the other half is just coming to the living
room wearing a little PVC number of fish nets and
high heels. Handed me a bear and tobby to relax,
sit down. When she comes back, she'll give me what
she does best. I can't wait. A bloody loves Shepherd's pie.
Speaker 5 (43:36):
Good.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
All right, that's us over and done with a couple
of all and competitions and giveaways for you to be
a part of next week on the Muster the last
week for twenty twenty five and Mandy Miller. This has
been the muster on Hock and new He Thanks to
Peters Geneix, and enjoy the arvoat them.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
See her Monday,
Good afternoon, and welcome to the muster on Hakanui Andy
Meoi hear into two o'clock of course, thanks the Peters Genetics.
Welcome along for Friday with overcast sky's greeting you as
you come in to go this afternoon, if you're planning
or doing some Christmas shopping, getting some oil filters, picking
up whatever groceries you name it. We'll talk the weather shortly.
We're film dunking in a little bit more context. But
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up next, up next, actually we're going to.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Do the weather. But the music today is Michael Stipe
and Rim.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Hakanui's five day forecast with twin farm tear from and
saft text. The proof is in the progeny tear from
dot Co dot inzead.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Friday afternoon shells of breezy sal Westleys and fifteen Saturday
Hartley cloud. You have come variable wins seven and twenty two.
Sunday partly cloudy with like nor easterlies thirteen and twenty four,
Monday rain developing a breezing north easters nine and twenty three,
and Tuesday thunder shellers thunderstorms disposed of westerlyes forming six
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and sixteen sochembages to Hanad Northern South and fifteen point
one normn South and fourteen point seven Clinton.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Fifteen point one.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
There we go Tew sixteen point one toid Row of
fifteen wind and fourteen point three of Woodland's fourteen point eight.
Don Morrison farming at Willow Bank, starts off for Muster
for a Friday afternoon, followed up by Phil Duncan out
of weather Watch looking at the southern weather for the
next seven days, Michelle Watt and the Country Crossover.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Then we catch up with Shane Young.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
If you want to win attractor for a pretty minimal outlay,
here's the opportunity in your chance to go in the
draw for that. And then Nick Newley out of news
Talk ZB looks at the crack at how the West
Indies on the ropes, losing quite a few wickets in
the session. Before we yeah, I'd say this game will
be all over and done with for today, although the
last test told us nothing is actually as it seems
(02:08):
with the black Cats, so without further ado, just as
well done. Before I go, if anybody has a couple
of square bails in the vicinity of God that we
could borrow for the Christmas Parade on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
If you could just get a hold of us here
text and we'll get a hold of you. Just email
us on the Muster on Hockey New Facebook.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Page might be the best way, and we'll try and
get a couple of bails sorted for the Christmas Parade
on Sunday. That'll be really appreciated it anyway, we'll crank
on with things now, starting the hour with Don Morrison.
This is the Muster until two o'clock thanks to Peters
Genetics away to willow Bank this afternoon on the Muster,
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Don Morrison farming out that way, Good afternoon, how we it's.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Not that indy but a great leading. Yeah, a couple
of a couple of good albums from r em over
over that period. Yeah, some really good music.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, nothing nothing for you comes close to our Jefferson
starship though, am I correct?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
No, no, no, just a bit of knowledge on Jefferson stars.
I think I'd probably wade Ram above them on my
on my hit list Andy, So yeah, no, good leading.
So how's everything looking at willow Bank as a really
good in terms of up to date with the work.
You know, we've we've been working hard those trees and
clean upset us back a bit with that winds, but
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the crops are all in the what else we done,
had a really good start to the season of ram selling.
We've just got the top are out the last couple
of days and next next week will be weaning drenching,
so big week. But we just fear we're working hard,
but we feel we're under control.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So how long's weaning going to take?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Now?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Weening will probably take us a week because with all
the stud sheet, we've got wail the lambs, and so
we do marves each day. We'll drink, we'll wean, we'll
weigh the lambs, we'll drench, and we'll mailed us and
get them ready for sharing. So you know, we just
worked through marves at a time. We're we're actually only
going to wean the stud us and but drink all
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the commercials and they will be weaned after New Year.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
So Indy, I hope to share.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
The sharing. We'll get all the we'll get all the
US and malt hopefully this week, so we can get
them shorn after the New year too. We'll get Cody
in and his team and yeah, get them. Sure, we've
already got all the old US away, so we've got
where we do the prep and lamb the older US first,
so they're gone. So it's really just you know, another
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half of the US still to go through, and we'll
another half the number to go again.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Well, that simplifies everything. If you've already got the freezers gone.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Makes it really easy. Andy. We always lamb them early
in August, the lambs of it earlier, so we've got
them weaned, the good number of those lambs away at
those good prices, and those US gone too, which just
certainly always reduces the feed demand right now. Makes it
a bit easier on Cody and his team to get
(05:13):
some lap, to get some used done early before the
pressure comes on. And yeah, just a weave a bit
of prep. You know, the prep starts now. When we
put all these use over, we'll mail them with anything
else that needs to go will be identified, but we'll
also identify next year's one year users such at this stage,
and they'll go onto a mob to be prepared from
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here on and to be mated earlier.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
There is a twelve month sharing the hell you or
what's your sharing raising?
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:39):
We all three a month sharing. Sorry, look, it's not
ideal for the wall because we generally share February March.
It's not the best for wall quality, and there's probably
a couple of months where the US they've got a
little bit much wall, but it works really good with
our wintering so that they've got enough wall but not
too much when they're on the window crops and still
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not a long wall come lending time with cast us.
So we used to be in eight month sharing or
a six month sharing, but just with the wall prices
now we've gone back to that twelve months.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Well, if the wall price rebounding to a degree, would
you go back to say six and nine months sharing?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Absolutely, it's better for the animal. You've got a better
far better monitoring of body condition, score, far better quality
of wall. And it's just the economics around at Andy,
So we'll certainly revisit that. Yeah, I like the six
month and the eight month sharing.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Now, of course you've got a bit of cannabis out
there that you're growing. It sounds as a bit of
regulations come through from the government this week around the
growing of crops like this, But from your operation, how
much exactly do you put in?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Look, we've got three and a half Hector's license. We
could put up to seven thousand plants probably on that,
but we've got considerably lower. It's still in these expiratory years.
I guess we'll fine tuning at practices and husbandry. Andy.
So we've had up to five thousand plants, but we're
finding we're getting considerably better yields. If we can effectively mother,
(07:04):
if we can manicure each plant, if we can if
we can trim, if we can manage it, we're getting
considerably higher yields per plant and a far better quality
flower product. So that's that's where we are this year.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
So there's quite a lot of labor involved with it.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
It's really labor intensive, Andy. It's it's like it's like
having a great big vegetable garden. We're actually planting yesterday,
so you plant every every plant individually. We've double staked them,
and now we'll be monitoring each of those plants right through. Well.
I guess once we can develop some really good pathways,
which we think we're in that position now, it could
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be a really significant regional employer because once we, you know,
start ramping up our numbers an area, then you're we're
going to need to employ a lot of people to
manage those plants and then involved in the in the
harvesting and processing of it down the track. So I
think a great opportunity for regional employment with a low
(08:05):
fertilizer regenerative crop.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
So how many staff do you have looking at the
crop at the peak of the season.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I suppose we're good.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Jay, who's our one full time partner in our cannabis operation.
She comes with a legacy knowledge, great expertise. So this
is our fifth year. We've been learning off her the
whole time. But we had five of us in the
paddock planting yesterday and yeah, so it takes a few people.
But what we're using is basically the resources on the farm,
(08:34):
the cultivation, existing farm equipment is all fine for your
cultivation and prep and then we're just using the labor
force on the farm to you to fill in for
that cannabis labor.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Just finally, as well, your time has come to an end,
as being as as being part of the Alliance board
down meets have gone in there interesting season he head
for land. Regarding prices, I suppose Howie.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
And we were all enjoying some really really strong red
meat prices in the in the in the ovine and
the bovine space. So you know, we want to enjoy,
you want to celebrate those prices we're getting. Look, I
guess when you when you get in that space, you're
always a little nervous of what comes next. Where we're
always aware of the chance for correction. Talking to some
(09:22):
friends in Europe, you know, involved in distribution, they really
see it we're not going to get I don't think
we're going to get a correction and lamb price until
we get a correction and beef price. So given that
that dynamics, I guess it's watched that whole America space
pretty closely and and what's just going to happen with
their economy. Are we going to get a little bit
(09:44):
of a check come the stock market come those midterms
elections next year. I see that as probably being the
next the next challenge to beef prices, and that would
possibly have a flow onder lamb prices. But I'm certainly
not a crystal ball goo. They're just using some analytics
from past but elections over those last ten ten election
cycles in the States, and that's certainly seen a stock
(10:05):
market dip or crash. Always in that midterm election second year.
So yeah, just watching that space, are.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
We seeing anything in the way of teriff having a
flow on effect with beef prices?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Now we look, it doesn't seem to I know, certainly.
I think most of the importers have passed on that
tariff to their consumers. And that's what we're reading when you,
if you want to read your American American economy stats
at the moment that certainly the commercial public is hurting
a bit from an uplifting prices. So no price and
(10:38):
demand is still really good for us as exporters.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Hey, good on you.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
How we will leave it there. Thanks very much for
your time on the master of this year. You bridge
it in the family, enjoy a bit of a break.
We'll do it all again next year.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Thank you, Andy, and the same to all your great
staff in there and that personally look to a catch
up and a good catch up with you, Andy, So
thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Don Morrison funny out at Willow Bank, you're listening to
the muster Phil Duncan from weather Watch. He gives us
a rundown on the southern weather for the next seven days.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
That's up next.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Starting to catch up once again, on the muster was
full Duncan from weather Watch. That is what you call
(11:46):
a double shot from the nineties, Full Duncan of weather Watch.
Good afternoon, how's everything been this week?
Speaker 5 (11:53):
It has been a very busy week, and it's got
that feeling like, you know, the year is ending because
you go for a drive and you see school kids
not at school and people mowing lawns that you know,
during the what would normally be a work day and
sort of got that feeling like why am I still working?
You know, I kind of want to switch off. Plus,
it's been really really hot up here, so finding on
(12:13):
a cool change today.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
So how busy is it for you in the lead
up to Christmas? From a meteorological viewpoint.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
It's pretty busy because there are a lot of people
doing stuff like they you know, there's a lot of
Santa parades on, there's people getting gardens ready for Christmas,
and a lot of people obviously wanting to know Christmas
Day and the lead up to it, and so it's
busy from that point of view. And the difference is
it's not like there's a big injection of people that
are from the towns like townys are a lot more
interested than the city people in the weather than maybe
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they are in the middle of winter when it's you know, okay,
it's just going to be cold and showery. They sacked
it into two weeks, whereas farmers came to be a
lot more paying attention to every detail. So that changes
in December. You get a lot more of the city
people following every detail of what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
So in a nutshell down and there in the south,
what have we got? And the lead out to the
end and the lead out the Christmas I suppose.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Well, I'm going to put it this way. It is
my positive way of framing it. Oh God, there's as
you probably know, there are a couple of dates to
start each season, and the meteorological date is the start
of December, so first of December that's when we start
so summer. But the more scientific one, the astronomical start
to summer is literally to do with the Earth's rotation
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around the sun. That doesn't occur to the longest day
of the year, which is coming up. I think it's
December twenty second around them, right, That is the moment
summer technically starts. So if you go by the astronomical date,
we are still in spring for another week or so,
which explains the weather pattern we've got at the moment.
It's just my way of saying, you've got spring weather
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and temperatures up and down coming up over the next
several days, right through until round about those few days
before we get to Christmas.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
So theoretically speaking, we're into a spring mode and till
in the middle of September, and we can almost say
Christmas summer should be going through onto March.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Yes, that's right, I mean, and a lot of you know,
when I was a kid, that's how I always heard
the seasons being described. In the Northern Hemisphere. They'd always
go so, you know, summer starts around June twentieth and
or twenty first and in the Northern Hemisphere, and winter
starts December twenty one. And it never made sense to
me because we started on the first of the months
and then realized, oh, there's two dates. One for meteorological bookkeeping,
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that's the one that starts at the you know, the
calendar month, because it's easy to do it that way,
but really technically, from a planetary point of view, summer
starts around about the about December twenty second. Let me
see what it is this year. The summer solstice date
this year is, yeah, the twenty second of December at
precisely four oh two in the morning. So that's when
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summer officially starts. Well, there is no official start, but
that's the that's the mother nature one, I guess.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
So it's either the twenty first or the twenty second
of December being the summer solstice.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
No definitive date.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Because it's a specific time. And so it's when the
Earth is at a certain point right of maximum sunlight
into the southern hemisphere, and that happened at an exact
moment four oh two in the morning. And then when
you get to the autumn equinox in March, it'll be
another specific time. And because of that, and because our
(15:21):
calendar changes every year, right, we have leap years and things,
so that date is always moving around a few days, right,
and the time is always changing, but it's always within
a couple of days. So roughly, you say about the
twenty second or twenty first of December and twenty first
twenty second of March, and then you go into obviously
June and then September.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
There is so much to entail when it comes to
the weather.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
It's not just looking at the sky and pointing and
saying it's sunny or its raining. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
And on top of that, our location on Earth means
that I think we've got very short summer and winter seasons.
We have I think two months of summer and two
months of winter. The rest of it all just a
long spring and a long autumn when a lot of windy,
westerly days with showers.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
True, yeah, yeah, I understand that. Right.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
So down here in the what some people call the
southwest southwest corner of the country, we call it the
Deep dirty South. Here in Southland, what have we got
for the next seven days?
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Fell Well, you guys in the in the northern part
of the Deep South, you have up and down temperature.
So today's a cooler day, definitely, Temperatures are down today
with that more southerly twist. Tomorrow it's not brutal, but
tonight's temperatures are down a bit, you know, sort of
We're seeing fours, fives and sixes tonight for some areas
(16:38):
in northern Southlands, so it's a little bit colder. Tomorrow
warms up to twenty two degrees even warmer on Sunday,
subtropical or northwest of flow coming in. Then twenty four
or twenty five degrees more northerly is on Monday. But
then the next cold change arrives Tuesday and Wednesday, and
then it looks like it will get even colder next weekend.
I'm seeing only thirteen is the high six the low
(17:01):
on Saturday night next weekend, not this one. So it's
still a bit unsettled. But we are seeing some high
pressure zones potentially coming in around Christmas time, so you know,
we might not have terrible weather, but I think you're
gonna get some rainfall coming through and Southend does sort
of stand out, aweedit in that area that you've got
probably thirty forty milimeters coming up in the next week
(17:21):
in some areas, and if you get a thunderstorm that
could go higher.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
So the lead after Christmas that is going to continue
being unsettled, yep, it is.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Yeah, We've got injections of sort of northerly and northwesterly airflows,
so that'll lift the temperatures up, and then we're going
to see more west to southwest changes because the southern
Ocean it's still quite stormy. It's not maybe as messy
as it's been, but it's got a bit of a pattern.
But at the moment, in the next couple of weeks
in particular, and for the last week we've just had,
(17:51):
the Southern Ocean weather pattern is stormier and it's what
they call it. It's what they call SAM, the Southern
annular mode. It's gone negative. And simply when that goes
into that negative phase, all it means is we've got
a lot of windy, westerly weather like it's spring or
autumn over the Southern Ocean. So that's a normal thing
to happen, and it's just happening at the moment in December.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
As far as this wind we're seeing, last week a
few more trees came down, nothing as vicious as oucked over,
but we're still seeing it every now and then. We're
going to continue as well with the wind. Unfortunately, Yeah,
we are.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
In fact, I in my final article for the Farmer's
Weekly newspaper out next week, I actually wrote about this
saying how we're from a weather point of view. Twenty
twenty five produced very few weather complaints from farmers and
growers around the country. I mean the usual grizzles when
we've had too much of something, but nothing serious other
than how dry the east of the country was becoming,
(18:48):
especially Hawks Bay and some of those big thunderstorms we
also had, but in particular Southland, because Southland had this
very cold, windy spring and winter, but spring particular, and
those windy conditions are now kind of popping up as
one of those complaints like the dry weather and Hawke's
favors repetitive noise I keep hearing, and so I think
(19:09):
that the wind has obviously been a problem. It's not
as bad as you say is October, but we're still
seeing it surging up and down, while we're still see
the southern ocean pretty active. That should ease, I think
as we go towards Christmas, but we may still have
it off and on up until then.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
You're going to be interesting. Phil Duncan and a weather
watch for the next seven days. We'll see how that
files will catch up with you one last time for
twenty twenty five this time next week.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Thank you very much, as always my pleasure.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Had a great weekend.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Phil Duncan, have.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Weather watch here on the Muster every Friday next we're
away to Dunedin. It is a country crossover with Michelle
Watt What in the country crossover? Joins us this afternoon.
(20:03):
Good afternoon, Michelle.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
Afternoon, and our last chat for twenty twenty five. It's
come around very quickly, hasn't it?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
This The year has gone really really quick.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
And I don't know how would you summose, summarize the year.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
Ah, it's been a tough one, I think for most people,
hasn't it. I mean, originally it was twenty five survive.
I think that definitely was the case. This year, twenty
five survive. Hopefully it definitely wasn't thrived for a lot
of people, and hopefully next year is a little bit different.
And onwards and upwards.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I say, what was it when he said to Jamie
used today fixing twenty six.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
You have fixed in twenty six. Let's hope. Let's hope
that happens. Mind your election year next year, so should
be reasonably entertaining. That feels like it's come around very
quickly as well.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Before we start, I'm going to give you some stats fascinating.
Which animal do you think is the most considered the
strongest considering what it can pull in relation to body weight.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Oh, I'm going to say some sort of ant or
something like that.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Continue, Yep, you're close, right. The dung beetle capable of
pulling eleven hundred times its own body weight, the rhinoceros
beetle eight hundred and fifty times, and the leaf cutter
and fifty times. The strongest overall animal was the African
bush elephant, although the gorilla is the strongest primate, capable
of lifting ten times as body weight. The harpy eagle,
the strongest barrier, can lift pray twice its own weight,
(21:27):
and Harry Wilson is the strongest Australians a number eight
because he had to carry the Wallabies all year.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
That's a good one idea like that. Did you come
up with that on your own?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Yeah? I did.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I thought that Mark Kelly every morning on the Country
Sport Breakfast is or what do you know? So I
just try and produce a random fact for him, and
I come up with that fact about the dung beetle
this morning.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
That's very good. I'd say that's fact of twenty twenty
five for me.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Well, there you go. AI. We're hearing all about AI.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
And the way it is coming out are you concerned
about the way that's evolving in such a rapid capacity.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
It's interesting, Andy, So I don't think you knew this
about me, but when I studied psychology university, one of
my papers was actually heavily based around AI at the time,
which at the time it wasn't as big as it
is now. So AI to me, it's very useful. It's
got its place. Unfortunately, the gate has been opened, Okay,
so it's already. It's out there. It's doing its thing.
(22:18):
It's learning at a rapid pace. So the more information
people put into it, the more it's learning how we operate,
and it can pick out anything from all over the Internet,
which is both useful and also terrifying for a lot
of reasons. But we've just got to learn how to
live with it now, I think, and use it to
its best as a tool for things, but hopefully it's
not used for evil.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Well.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I read about a government scenario over in Europe. They're
planning for two things, nuclear warfare and AI taking over
as such, and that would ever be a thing.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
Yeah, it reminds me of all those movies that we
saw when we were kids about AI robots taking over
all sorts of things like that, and whether that could
actually be a reality, I don't know. I mean, for me,
you know law of robotics that they can't harm humans,
that's actually one of the laws of robotics. But AI
could have learned the point that I guess the biggest
(23:08):
worry for people is could it learned to the point
that humans are their own demise because of all the
information that's out there, it might put that together. Because remember,
AI doesn't have emotion. It's not human, so it can't
It can gather information, it can make answers based on
that information, link things together and sort of comprehend things,
I guess in a way, but it can't have that
(23:29):
emotional input that a human has, so it doesn't have that.
So it could be interesting in the future, especially as
it evolves with the revolves to that.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Have you just thought of this off the top of
your head.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Oh yeah, I think about this stuff all the time.
AOI is a bit of a passion of mine.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
That's really interesting. I swore you would have wrote that down.
That is really well said.
Speaker 7 (23:48):
I'm smarter than you think your intelligence for.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
A moment, I mean, our clues to represent You're.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Just putting them up in lights with facts like that,
that's outstanding.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
Well, it is my own opinion. But from the reading
I've done, I think Ai. You know, like I said,
it has its place, It doesn't have emotion, whether it
can learn that or not. It will learn how humans
interact with each other because it will be able to
learn that from online and the way people interact with
each other via videos and all sorts of things in
certain situations. But whether it can apply that so precisely
that a human does, or whether it'll apply it black
(24:20):
and white, that's what the future holds.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Social media band in Australia for under sixteens? Is this
going to work?
Speaker 7 (24:28):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (24:28):
For me?
Speaker 7 (24:28):
I think that floodgate has already opened as well, and
unfortunately Andy, I think also young people are the ones
that grew up with this. You and I had it
enter into our lives later. We didn't have it, you know,
we didn't have it when we were under sixteen. We
had it after that. So we've learned to live with it,
learned to interact with it. Whereas kids now are growing
up with it, and I'm not sure if that's worse
(24:50):
or better removing it. We know prohibition doesn't work, you know.
I mean history will tell us prohibition does not work.
So whether this will play out or not, I don't know.
I think these days, younger kids or younger teenagers especially
are a lot smarter than the rest of us when
it comes to technology, and they'll probably figure out a
way to get back on social media. Does it cause harm, Yes,
(25:11):
it does, But I think a lot of it is
to do with education as well, and educating people about
how to limit that harm because it's going to be
there forever. It's not going away.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
But it's a.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Sad reflection of society, the way that we rely on technology,
the way we do case and point their conversation before.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
Oh definitely. I think if anything, during the summer holiday break,
if people can remove themselves from those things and have
an actual break from it, it does make a massive
difference to your mental reset. You don't realize until you
take it away. But I think it has its place.
It's a useful tool. It's created a lot of different
connections and a way to connect for people that we
(25:47):
didn't have before. I mean, I used to have pen pals, Andy.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Did you We had pen pears about for school and
Standard three mus Chapman's class shares from Mega Tafari up
in Auckland, and we all write to people from that
class at the time.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Yeah, And I mean, you wouldn't do that anymore, would you,
because you can go and hunt someone down on Facebook.
But I think the issue with social media for me
is that you don't know if that person is the
real person anymore. And the biggest fear is people stealing
identities also pretending to be someone they're not, and that
is scary because it makes it a lot easier, I think.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Just finally as well, it's the official survey is out
regarding what is the major protein on Kiwi tables this
summer or for Christmas. I suppose they took a thousand
people as a snapshot sample. Forty two percent said lamb
would be the hero protein, porker ham thirty percent, and
beef thirteen percent.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I question those figures.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
It's interesting, isn't it. I mean, it was only a
thousand people, so really that's quite a small survey. It
depends on who they surveyed as well in that survey,
but it's done annually. It's a bit of a you know,
it's one of those things that comes along at Christmas
and we get it as a media relation and it's
a nice little thing to talk about, but I think
was the cost of living. It really prize me that
lamb was ahead, especially with the price of red meat
(27:03):
at the moment. I would have thought pork would have
been ahead. Actually, but what are you having on your
dinner table?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
It's pretty traditional as far as the Christian we don't
do lamb as such. We take lamb when we go on.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Holiday and have a feeder of the likes too, but
like you say, it's just a very expensive protein now
for the consumer to get it is.
Speaker 7 (27:20):
And I think traditionally New Zealand's moving away from those
English style Christmas Day I mean obviously my husbands and Englishmen,
but we don't have turkey, although a few years we
have had it randomly depending on where we are, but
usually it's lamb or something of the likes. This year
to be a barbecue or something. I think things get
more casual as time goes on. It's about spending time
(27:42):
with family, you know. It doesn't matter if it's a
sausage on the barbie or a league of ham or
a league of lamb. It doesn't really matter as long
as you're with the people that you love.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Good on you, Michelle, always appreciated your chats this year
on the muster.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Have a great holiday season in see in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 7 (27:58):
Likewise a Merry Christmas too, or the listeners down and
Gore in South Otago.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Michelle wat in the Country Crossover. Up next Shane Young
talking about how you can want to tractor.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
This interview is brought to you by Agricenter South branches
in Lawnville, Gore, Cromwell, Milton, and Ranfurly. Drop by your
local agri Center South branch today.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Throw your.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Shane Young is club vice president of the Central South
and Vintage Machinery Club. We caught up with Shane a
couple of weeks ago with the most awesome prize for
a one hundred dollars outlay. If you're the lucky recipient,
here to tell us all about how you can want
attract the next February Shane, good to catch up once again.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
Here you getting on Andy, Yeah, pretty good.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Look we caught up a couple of weeks ago. Just
reiterate to people what this is all about. This is
really cool.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Yeah, it's achievement. Central South and British Sinery Club raffling
off a new Holland tractor and being helped us by
CNH and egressing to sell the chipping in to give
us a hand with this. So we're raffling this tractor
off to build a new display shed.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Now tell us the speaks of the tractor and the
lives because it's a pretty good value on this.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
Yep, yep, that's well the value of it's one hundred
and seventy five thousand plus GST, so it's an over
turndred thousand dollars prize. It's one hundred and twenty five
horse pair six cylinder loader tractor capable of most jobs
on the farm. Likes pretty good prize.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Really, that's a hell of a good prize. And the
great thing is there's a captain amount of tickets. How
many tickets are available.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
There's three thousand turn of tickets for the raffle and
it's going to be drawn on Friday on the Aggressina
site at the field days.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
So it's a one in three thousand, two hundred chants
of winning this. That's better than lotto, for goodness.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Sake, it's a lot better than lotter.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
It's way better than Lotto, and of course it's going
towards a new shed for the Central Southland Vintage Machinery Club.
Just once again give people a bit of an understanding
about the club and what you're hoping to achieve.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
So the club is situated at the old dairy factory
site just out of Winton, on the edge of Winton
and we've basically just outground the premises and we're building
a new shed. We've done a heap of site work,
got all the gravel work done, got the polls stood up,
and now we're sort of just fundraising for the next stage,
which is getting the shed up.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
So it's been the amp show season.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
You've been going along to the shows and just getting
a bit of interest around this, I'd say.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Yep, yep. We've been to most of the local shows
up till now since it started on the sixteenth of November,
and the trac there will be at Milton this weekend,
it was at Wyndham last weekend. I think we're about
it for shows after this weekend at Milton until Winton
in January.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
The actual tractor will be at these at the show,
so we're getting it carded round and Yeah, the guys
on our aggreacy Decide at Milton will have it there
this weekend, so call in, catch up with them and
scan the barcode whatever you call it QR code and
you'll be away.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
So what happens when people buy a ticket? Do they
receive a notification as such or how does it all work?
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Yep, yep they do. You scan the code or you
type in www, dot win, a tractor, dot co, dot
z and it'll go in. You put all your details
in and then your email address and when you press submit,
you'll get an email what's your ticket number in your
email a couple of minutes later, so you'll know exactly
what number it is.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
So and the best thing is we've got one ticket
to give away for this straw here on the muster
as well, Shane.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
So what we're asking.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
People to do if you want to go in the
draw to win Lord to win one of these tickets
for the new Holand tractor with the team at Cecil
self and Vindors Machinery Club, text tractor five double oh night.
We'll do this draw around the middle of next week
and yeah, you're gonna you've got to be into win.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
That's all there is about it.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
Yep, that's right, that's right, and good, good opportunity to
give a Christmas present for someone or someone that's hard
to buy for. It's a good as a good prize.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
I mean, you can only have so many socks and
jocks in the old man's bloody cabinet, right, you need
to get something a bit more practical, nothing more practical
than a brand new new Holland sitting up the driveway.
Speaker 6 (32:27):
Well, that's right. There's a lot of people that would
really like that, and that's a good value prize and
it probably is probably is a bit nicer than a
new pair of jocks.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Again, although comfort has no you can't put a price
on comfort these days when you get older. Right Hey,
Just as far as Christmas parades and that over your
neck of the words, do you guys get involved with that.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Yeah, we we will be. We'll be having it at
I think the Christmas parade at Riveden was on Christmas Eve.
I'm pretty sure it's going to be over there because
it'll be at the Riveted Races for the the first
of January. I think they have awesome they have the
Rivet and Racers. It'll be there helping out round the
track and yeah it'll be over there, and yep it'll
(33:08):
definitely be at the Riveton Christmas Breade on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
So once again text tractor to five double oh nine
to be in the draw to win a brand new
new Holland tractor courtesy of Central Self and Vintage Machinery Club.
It's going to be drawn drawn at the Southern Field
Days at Way Mumu in February. Shane Young of Central
Self and Vintage Machinery Club, thanks very much for your
time on the muster.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Always good to catch up.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
Yep, no, thank you very much and cheers for everyone
getting in behind it. It's awesome to see.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Thank you, Shane Young of the Central South and Vintage
Machinery Club. Once again, text tractor to five double oh
nine to go in the drawer to win one of
these tickets to go into the draw.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
So it's a sub draw.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
For another draw if you understand. But it's all about
winning a new Holland tractor and that's thanks to the
team at Central Self and Vintage Machinery Club.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Nick Bewley's up next to wrap up the week here.
Speaker 9 (34:04):
Shaney.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Man, Welcome back to the muster, remembering text and Tract
at a five double a nine to put your name
in the draw thanks to the Central South and Vindors
Machinery Club. Put your name forward to get into the
main draw to win that new holand tractor of course
at Southern Field Days next year. Nick Bewley of New
storg zvy, good afternoon. If you want to win attractor,
(34:31):
this is your revenue.
Speaker 9 (34:33):
Good to know, Andy, I don't think attractively too much
use in suburban christ Church, but that sounds like a
cracking prize, yeh play.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Hey, look we're at lunch at the Test ninety eight
for six the Windy's. I think it's just got underway
actually again, but this game understandably so or unfortunately injuries
and yeah, just not longevity into a five day format
being the key at the moment.
Speaker 9 (34:59):
Yeah, it has been sort of the story of this
Test series. I suppose we're going to cast our minds
back to the last week with Matt Henry and Nathan
Smith and the fast bowling department, Tom Blundell just you know,
running between the wickets and tweaking a hamstring as well.
You know, I can't really recall the last time three
players and a playing eleven went down in the same
(35:19):
Test match, and then the just innoxious nature of which
Blair Tickner got injured on the final league boundary yesterday,
just you know, trying to prevent a boundary and dislocates
his shoulder having taken a fourth in the first innings. Yeah,
I'm not sure exactly what it is, you know, some
you know, I think that example there with Tickner is
(35:41):
just extraordinarily unfortunate Lutch. But some of these sort of
soft tissue ones, the stress fractures in the back, when
you look at guys like Willow Rourke and Kyle Jamieson
and the like over the last couple of years, I
think there probably is a bit more of a you know,
if you dive a little bit deeper into the strength
and can listening in preparation to red ball cricket, when
(36:02):
there's just such a constant diet of limited overs cricket,
particularly in the T twenty format, it probably is something
that requires further examination.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
I know.
Speaker 9 (36:11):
Actually, Rob Walter, the relatively new Black Caps coaches, come
from in SNC background, and he'll be very wary of
the nature of which the fast bowling department in particularly
has to go very deep into the playing stocks to
find a Michael Ray, for example, out of formerly Otago
now Canterbury to make it Test debut. So it has
(36:33):
been quite a curious series. But in saying that, I
think it's a real not to first class cricket and
the playing pets of guys as mentioned like Michael Ray,
like Mitchell Hayes here on debut, the batting wicket keeper
from Canterbury, that they do not look overawed by the
occasion of international Test match cricket. What have we got
(36:53):
Michael Ray now he took three for in the first innings,
He's got Shay Hope here today in bold and Mitch
Hatop scoring that first innings with a really commanding sixty
one to put New Zealand in a really healthy position
and sharp behind the stumps too earlier today you know,
having a big saying that that runout that Michael Brashaw
(37:16):
also you know impacted. So yeah, it's been a curious
Test match in the sense that it's a playing eleven
that I don't think we will ever see you again. Andy,
But New Zealand in the box seat, as you say,
when they's ninety eight to six here in the second
session a leader. Just twenty five runs could very well
be if you're just finishing up work for your Friday
(37:39):
get in front of a TV or the alternative commentary
collective on radio, because it might be all done by dusk.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
I mean, we look at the bigger picture for the
black Cats, no more tests cracking until England in the
middle of next year. Then we got the Biggie the
tests over in Australia. This is a good chance to
see what depth we do actually have.
Speaker 9 (37:59):
I totally agree, and I think if there is one
player that could really push their case for the playing
eleven at full strength, who's playing here in this Test
match at the base and reserve, it would be Mitch Hay.
I think there isn't much in it when between Tom
Blundell and Mitch Hay. When Tom Blundle was fully thirty
(38:21):
five years of age, he's been the incumbent test work
keeper now since making his debut back in twenty seventeen.
The runs haven't quite been as there for some time now.
And I know it's one innings and one performance, but
Mitch Hay's averaging just to tick under fifty in Red
Bull cricket at plugshield level for category. Yeah, like I say,
(38:42):
looks really assured behind the wickets as well, So that'll
be one to watch over the course of the next
twelve months, as he says, some really big fish to
come with England, Australia and India the Big three, so
that'll be one to watch, as will be with the
bowling stocks and from South in perspective Andy, everyone's championing
the efforts of Jacob Duffy and it was fantastic to see,
(39:05):
you know, his effort, particularly here in christ Yetch last week.
They're getting a maiden five for and I think he'll
be there or there about too, because we just don't
know where a Willow Rourke will be, you know, first
ever stress fraction in the back Kyle Jamison. They're just
uncertainty lingers about his fitness. You know. We hope Matt
(39:25):
Henry will be there to spare ahead the attack, but
there is some Yeah, there's some interesting decisions to come
for Rob Walter and the returning convey of New Zealand Selectors,
Gavin Larson, over the next six or twelve months.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Right, but of a change attacks here's ce v Reese.
He's away over to France at the end of the
year contracted to the end. Zare will he be viewed
as a Crusaders great.
Speaker 9 (39:48):
Well, that's a good question. I think the short answer
is yes, purely, when all said and done, we look
at his record, he will leave. It's super rappy all
time try scoring record and a place that it might
not get anywhere near close ever. Again, it's currently at
sixty six from eighty eight games. You know, let's say
(40:10):
hypothetically he plays I know, he really wants to get
to one hundred games, which which puts him again in
rear territory as a Crusader, so they'd say scores another
eight tries, you know, in the mid seventies. I think
he will go down as a great winner for the Crusaders.
It's just, you know, it's probably subjective in terms of
how far you go. There's been a lot of greats
(40:31):
of have played for the Crusaders over their thirty year history.
But yeah, I mean in terms of his playing legacy.
You know, he came down here around this time of
the year. Back in twenty eighteen to seven years ago
on a bit of a whim, he played NPC for Wakato.
He was actually due to go to Ireland, but says
contract was torn up by Connacht after he was before
(40:54):
the courts for a domestic violence charge. He came down
here to the Crusaders and to say about seven years
ago as an extra body at training with a couple
of injuries, all of a sudden, gets to debut Round one,
scores a couple of tries. Within that twenty nineteen year,
he went from not even having a full time super
aby contract to scoring a bucket load of tries in
that first season for the Crazy Crusaders, into an All
(41:15):
Blacks debut and played at the World Cup in Japan
in twenty nineteen and the rest is sort of history.
That's the tradutary his career has gone on. He's obviously
fallen out of the pecking order, down the pecking order
this year with the All Blacks such as their options
on the wing. But yeah, I think to answer your question,
I'm trying to wrack my brains just to who would
hold a candle to him on the wing in a
(41:37):
Crusaders yeersey Over the last thirty years, I know cayleb
Ralph played a lot of rugby for the Crusaders on
the wing and scored a lot of tries as well.
But he might be if you had to name a
legends fifteen over the last thirty years and for the Crusaders,
it probably would be.
Speaker 5 (41:52):
My right winger.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
As far as this contract with the Ends, and we
know that he came to Southland, he only played the
one he had made, the one of parents for them,
good old South.
Speaker 9 (42:02):
Memorable too from a memorable one two and they never
gave him the ball forty points.
Speaker 5 (42:07):
Did he touch the ball?
Speaker 2 (42:08):
No, he did it. They never passing the bloom and ball.
Speaker 9 (42:10):
It might be a problem.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
So so in PC is he hanging around.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
I don't know if he's resigned for south or not
for this year, whatever reason when he'd done that for
But so if he is hanging out with the Inda,
he's going to hang around New Zealand until the end
of the domestic season.
Speaker 9 (42:24):
So my understanding is that the New Zealand Araby contract
goes right through to the end of twenty twenty six
the Super Rugby. You know, the outside of outside chances
of him being selected for the All Blacks tour of
South Africa and the first round of the nation's championship
fixtures in July. I don't think that'll be on the cards,
(42:47):
both from where he is in the picking order and
where his future lies. Yes, so there is an outside chance.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Nick Buley had a news dog, zib Thanks very much
for a musings this year. Enjoy the holiday season with
the family that's doing it all.
Speaker 9 (42:59):
Again, Nick year hy same to you, Andy, Merry Christmas,
and to all the listeners out there in the South,
particularly and Gore, I have some fantastic family time. We'll
catch you in the new year.
Speaker 8 (43:12):
Man laugh out loud with ag proud because life on
the land can be a laughing matter brought to us
by sheer well data working to help the livestock farmer.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
So the other half is just coming to the living
room wearing a little PVC number of fish nets and
high heels. Handed me a bear and tobby to relax,
sit down. When she comes back, she'll give me what
she does best. I can't wait. A bloody loves Shepherd's pie.
Speaker 5 (43:36):
Good.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
All right, that's us over and done with a couple
of all and competitions and giveaways for you to be
a part of next week on the Muster the last
week for twenty twenty five and Mandy Miller. This has
been the muster on Hock and new He Thanks to
Peters Geneix, and enjoy the arvoat them.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
See her Monday,
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