May 13, 2026 • 44 mins
Andy Muir talks to Geordie Eade, Nigel Woodhead, Jason Archer, Isla Pringle, Nathan Burdon and David Morrison.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the Master one Hokanui. My
name's Andy Muer and we're here until two o'clock this
afternoon thanks to the team at Peter's Genetics. Excuse the
voice just that time with you, and a bit of
a croak going on in the throat, but anyway, we
carry on and tell you what, it's pretty foggy here.
I'm looking out over Main Street towards the hills there
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over the Mattawa River and it's like peace suit. We're
still waiting for the fog to live here in the
middle of Gore. So yeah, just be warned if you're
driving around too. I think it's opened up in parts
of the province, but not here in the middle of gtown. Anyway,
crank into it creates clear water revival.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Now Hakanui's five day forecast with twin farm teff from
and subtext. The proof is in the progeny teff from
dot co dot in zad.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
This afternoon sunny with light sal Westley's in a high
of twelve Friday, cloudy have come variable wins to and
ten Saturday, Sunday and Monday, or a rinse and repeat
of sunshine with calm variable winds one in ten on Saturday,
zero in ten on Sunday and mondays, so nice and
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easy there to decipher. Only saw a temperature in this.
Afternoons Clinton at tense, so straight into who's on today?
Jeordiyed farming over at Riverton, the River of the South,
talking about the price of fuel and how it scenes
have come back, especially in a bulk distribution form. So yeah,
it a bit of a win. They're going on there.
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Geordie just elaborates on it a bit more. Nigel would
head farming in South Otago between Balcluther and Winton, looking
at the season, getting into silly string time on farm,
but the rise of war when Noise just thinks, yeah
long wye this continue and here to that. Jason Archer,
a b for their New Zealand talks genetics ahead of
the ball selling season. Eiler Pringle from Headgechoke, not far
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away from dry Off on the dairy farm. So have
a regular catch up with Eiler and our residents. Sporting
gury Nathan Burdon talking rugby league and the worry is
this Luke Metcalfe situation as any player bigger than the team,
we talk about that Dave Morrison at PGG Rights and
gives a rundown from the stock sale that occurred at
Charlton this morning. There will crank straight into it with
(02:18):
Jordi Ed. This is a muster until two o'clock, of course,
thanks to Peterson Edicts coming up seven after one.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
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Speaker 1 (02:42):
Jordi Eed farms over at the river Era of the South,
which is of course beautiful Riverton and we catch up Jordy.
Good afternoon. How's everything at the river Era?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Good afternoon, Andy. Yeah, the sun's out now before you
this morning. But nice to see the sun really after
a favorite of crappy weather over the weekend. We had
sixty year and thankful that only the dairy farm only
got half that. But yeah, we certainly had enough. Ye,
I wouldn't really want to see anymore for the until
the end of May. It'd be quite good if we
can see it out on this you've had enough so.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Your rainfall figures? Would you be behind the eight ball
for the season?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
No, we're about fifty ahead of this time last year,
so we're up to about that five fifty five sixty
marks already for this year. So yeah, it's probably a
round about normal for about a fourteen hundred milimeter rainfall
for the season. So yeah, so we're about there running
on average, you would.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Say, So, how are your covers looking?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah, I know the covers are really good with grass
growth all the way through really, I mean, you know,
April has been as good as grass growing years as January,
so you know, the covers have all done pretty well.
You know the user on bro hind fences now, so
you know what you're a bit of grass grows now,
keep it, store it and keep it for the winter.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
So you've got all the lambs away, Yeah, I've got.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
One hundred and forty left, but they are just probably
they were due to go next week. Could I pushed
out a following week? We've still got a bit of
feet there for them, so I might as well just
keep I'm on the schedule went back up again on
Friday night, so it's gone the right direction again.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Well how much does it drop with your company over
the season, They wouldn't have been stuff all.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, I think they might have dropped probably twenty cents
in the whole season. So you know, that's unbelievable because
you normally get that weaning draft and you sort of
you know, there's sort of maybe sixty eighty cents drops
out of it, you know as you come into January,
but for it to hold as it did, you know,
it only dropped that sort of twenty to thirty cents. Yeah,
it's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Really.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Now you've got a dairy farm over over in your
neck of the Words too that you're operating, so you've
got a lot of bases covered. How's it been there.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, and it's been really good. We have a sort
of a unique sort of set up there as the
farm's sort of divided into forty nine paddocks, only one
hundred and twenty three hectores and forty nine paddocks, and
we do a twenty three day round from start to
finish because the grass grows the all year round, so
it's quite unique and we just you know, as you
get into these months, you just sort of start wearing
your covers down a bit, and you know it seems
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to work really well.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Really.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
It's easy for a management position anyway.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Growing grass all year around, that's a hell of a
problem for South one.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Oh it is.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, yeah, No, I think I don't know. I think
the winters where they get more mild, I don't know.
From when I was a kid, I can remember playing
a lot of rapian fross anyway, But you've been right
down down the estuary. It doesn't get much frost anyway,
And yeah, I mean it's one benefit. You can probably
take a bend down there anyway.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
So how the cows be milking as you come towards
the end of the season.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
You were about on par now what we're doing this
time last year, but we're sort of about four ver
sen ahead, but we lost those six days of the windstorms,
so to be sort of three or four sena head.
And when you take six days out of it, I'll
take it and run. So you know, they've been milking
really well of late. We had a few higher emptiers
this year, but I went through them and they're all
older cows. But it was something bit unusual was that
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we didn't take milk until the middle November. So that's
contrasting with trying to get them in calf at that
time too. That could have been a bit of an effect,
but I suppose we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
He were talking about the days l Since you're Jordie,
it sounds as it was not supply won't be an
is shoe. The price needs to relax of it. Although
you were telling me before that bulk delivery exclusive has
actually come right back to what it was.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Yeah, it's come back.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
You know, it's come back probably a good sixty or
seventy cents from what it was about a month ago.
But yeah, so the bulk delivery, so you know, that's
probably everybody that used a lot of fuel that's sort
of you know, will be getting that sort of rate back.
I mean, one thing that's probably really annoying me is
the FAFS amongst the transport companies. There's no consistency. Every
transport company or contractor has a different rate or just
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asked if they all could have the same. So yeah,
it's annoying, really annoying.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That's a bit like any contractor though they're going to
be horses for course. Is the way they want to
sell their product though, wouldn't it.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yeah, I suppose you're right, Yeah, I suppose then you know,
I was in buying even all folders in the mcagle
last Friday, and even there they've got to sign up
that they've got an faf on buying all fielders. So yeah,
wait till they have that on the supmarket shelf or
as into the suit market, that might cause a bit agress.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Well, all of a sudden, the himaz straight. I said
this the other day, it's going to be one of
the terms of the twenty twenties that we're going to
look back at about ten twenty years time and either
chuckle or win sad.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah, Well, to be fair, probably before this I'd never
even heard of it.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
It's one thing about these world issues. You're learning geography
all the time. But look, I'm still getting my email
from the field company I was with that I was
on the farm and the greatest wording for hoarding is
precautionary ordering. And I was saying everything's back to normal now,
but a lot of precautionary ordering was going on when
all this stuff kicked off. So it sounds as though
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deliveries are going back to normal.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yeah, I mean, there's only so much you can store
on farms. I suppose it was that, but a rush
to get all that filled up. I know myself, I
was getting down a bit, so you know, I just
probably get a filled up. But then everybody else did
all the same thing. So you know, we have central
heating for the house too, so I was sort of
probably making sure that it was going to run out
for diesel for that, So you know, I think the
precautionary ordering was probably And then that's you know, that
ship sailed and we're all got enough now and I
(08:04):
think we'll probably see out there want to not need
much more.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, there's not one thing, it's the other. Hey, I'll
leave you with this. I'll get this your thoughts on
this before we wrap up as well. Regarding council amalgamation
down here in the South, what are your thoughts.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Yeah, no, I thought I think it definitely needs to
be done. You know, I'm always been an advocate. I
can't you know, I can't understand how gore On itself
has a mayor and a council for the little amount
of people. What has I mean that of any amalgamation,
I can't understand how they're not under the district council.
But I mean there's sort of a few. Rob Scott had
quite a good article in the Southern Times, so I
we'd only get the Southern Times on a Saturday. And
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you know about how these sort of duplication things done,
and they're trying to work with one another, and I
understand that, you know, I think it's probably a good
thing as long as everybody can still get the essay,
I suppose.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
And that's a big thing being a democracy. And the
councils have been given three months to work this out,
to work it out otherwise it's going to be worked
out for them.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, well that's right too, But I mean saying that
it wasn't really put on. They knew that it was coming.
So it's been no year, there's been no shock.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
You would say, good.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Only Jordy will leave it there.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Enjoy the vo No good San shawning, sir, thank you, goodhead, Jordy.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yet the river of the South, which is Riverton. You're
the greatest word for hoarding precautionary ordering. Gotta love ternology, right.
Nigea wood heads up next up in South Otago. You're
listening to the master hurricane away to South Otago on
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the muster this afternoon. Niga Woodhead farming between bell Cluth
and Milton with a bit of a deviation of State
Highway one towards the hills, and he's around there somewhere.
Good day, night, how are you? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Goodbye? Pretty good on a day like today, the sun
is shining.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I pretty much nailed your location there, saying you just
deviate or State Hiway won by a couple of caves.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Yeah, but we're out on the coastal side of the
main drag, not towards the hills. But yeah, we're only
three k's off the main drag.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
So talking to a few people at the moment, jordyy
just before saying hell, well, it's just got sticky all
of a sudden over at Riverton where you were based.
Are you? Are you looking like that?
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Use today was windy and today's nice sunny day, so
it's driving the surface out a bit. But yeah, in
the weekend it was weird. Yeah, holy mom, it got
wet in the hell.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Of are.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Just started a couple of mobs of calves on fotoweek
this morning and was a bit worried they were going
to make a mess. But yeah, a couple of nice
days and yeah there's no mud, so it's good. So yeah,
should be hell of a long winter. If we're making
mud already.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Are you getting frost because there's been a lack of
it around the province.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
We've had a couple, I think, but nothing nothing too major.
There was a space of them there earlier on and
they got cold there for a bit. But now we
haven't been too badful for us. It's good, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
It certainly he helps temperatures at the moment. If you
can stay around the double digit mark for getting towards
the middle of May, it's certainly every day is a
day that you save for a bit of feed.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Oh yeah, no, we'll still be growing growing grass slowly. Yeah,
but we're tight for feed man, we're tight. We probably
as tight as we have been this time of year.
I don't know if I mentioned that last time we
were talking, but we couldn't couldn't get bull spaced for
about a month. I had fifty big balls still on
and we're forty of them ready to go. And you
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know at five hundred and fifty six and Akilo eats
fear bit attacker, So that month year really cost us
a heap of grass. So as a result, they're heading
for a little balls are just waiting to go on
the trucks, for they're pretty added sort of all the
north of five hundred kilos. It's not quite heavy enough
to kill. And the last three hundred and twenty lambs
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went on a truck store the other day. I was
hoping to finish all my balls and all my lambs
this year, and I was close, but not quite. You know,
it's you know, there's still worth plenty of money, and
you've got to make a decision this, Timmy. You don't
you predict next years and next year's and come.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I can hear the tooes going in the background. That's
pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Yeah, well you have a few native birds just floating around.
Actually that's cool. Actually they're just in the trees and
behind the dopkins. So you love the old native birds when.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
You get the toes or the bell birds just singing
your way and you're doing a job and you just
put everything that puts everything in the into perspective to
suppose about why you do it, why you do what
you do?
Speaker 4 (12:42):
One hundred. It's pretty fun. Actually, I'm just standing out
in front of my shield and there's haying for a
bentail just snooping around. I hope they're eating some of
these clusterflyers.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
How bad is a classify situation for you?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Oh? Pretty bad? Yeah, not good? What's doing the other day?
When to grab acain the drink off a shelf and
the wallshed and pulled it, you know, and it was
up against the wall and pulled it off, and you
know it's like you know how they like sit between
and get like that. There was like a whole gazillion
of them stacked in between the drink drum and the wall.
(13:16):
It gives you the willies. I hate the cluster for us.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Actually, you bring up the number gazillion. I think gazillion
should be recognized as a number, not necessarily placed after
a million or a chillion, but it basically means a lot.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Oh yeah, well you say a gazillion, know, someone's talking
about a truckload of something, right, so absolutely, no, that's
an accurate Well it's not an accurate number, but it's
a good depiction of what we're talking about. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
You talk about getting these animals away. Initially did mention
it a couple of weeks ago, trying to get these
bulls off to the works. Jeordie talked about it before
though the schedule actually coming back up at the weekend
and hasn't dropped bugger rule.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
No, no, no, it's here like the bull schedules sort
of around nine and what do I say the lamb
shood you was ten thirty or teen to forty or something,
So yeah, we'll take it. It's good. The last lot
of my works them have just been on the truck.
The prime lambs were on the track this morning, and
I don't know. They might do They might do nineteen
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in the stretch. I'm doating something. They definitely felt heavier
dragon and they have the board yesterday than they look,
so yeah, I hope they'll be hopefully there'll be a
two in front of the in front of the price there.
It's good. Yes, It's an unbelievable season, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
What would your lambs be everaging over the past couple
of the season's.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Nightge, You can't even compare this year to previous years,
like you just literally can't compare them like we Like
I said, I was hoping to finish everything, and we
only sold those three twenty earlier in the weekly. The
only stare ends were done all year. If you take
my wedding drafts, if you put them to one side
with averaging north of nineteen And yeah, I think we've
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only had one draft since since January go under nineteen
and it was eighteen point nine something something as well.
So yeah, but then like last year, in the year before,
we sold probably seventy eight of our lamb store. So
it's just you can't even compare the seasons makes it
pretty tough farming. Not being able to, you know, actually
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have a pretty good idea of what you're going to do.
Like you know, if we if it rains at Christmas
and we ever got of feed, they will finish them
and if it doesn't then we have to sell them store.
It's not a perfect business model, but that is what
we've got to the authors.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
No, but you've got levers as we call it in
the game that you can pull if you need to.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Well that's why yeah, yeah, and that's why we like
the freezing bulls because they're usually the first thing to go.
But it's yeah, and it's quite nice having a balance
between kettle and sheep, Like if it's a really good
spring and finger, it's the way you you've got lots
of longer feed around. Then you get rid of lambs
because they're not going to do so well on that
line the feed and keep the kettle that can handle
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that slightly longer feed as opposed if it's the place
short and green and it looks like it's getting a
bit dry, where you hold onto the lambs because they
like that short stuff and ditch the kettle. So yeah,
it's quite good having that balance. And we reared a
handful extra carves a see read seventy five and then
bought an extra at something, so a few more cattle
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and hopefully they'll try and just balance things out of it.
You know, if we decide to pull the pull the
liver on kettle, then it's a bigger whack of mouths
off the platform in one go. If we want to
sell some store, if it makes sense. So yeah, well
we'll see like I might if it turns wet in July,
I might regret having one hundred and twenty balls instead
(16:47):
of sixty. But well, yeah, we should be we should
be right. We've got plenty of plenty of options for
we had to put kettle if it gets wet in
the window in the spring.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah, we know all know how protein is looking at
the moment. What about your wiel check for the seas
and how would that rate?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Yeah, that's probably almost been as big as surprise as anything.
Like you know, we we we're expecting reasonable money for
lemon faflutely. I mean, I don't know. I don't think
anyone had ten or eleven dollars in their budget, but
we're expecting things to be not too bad. But yeah,
I think I just get an awful use day of
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six dollars already something for my two do well clean,
So yeah, we'll take that fantastic.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah, so we'll compete anyway.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Oh yeah, I mean it's well, like the war account
and the accounts at the end of the year, is
can have a positive in front of it, which it
hasn't for a long time, so unbelievable. Yeah, I'm unreal.
It's so good just to have that part of the
business planet's way for a change, which again, you know,
if you're a root of businessman, comments like oh it's
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good to have that part of the business planet's way
again is probably not something you want to say too often,
but you know, here we are, we have to produce
the stuff if we're growing the type of sheet we produce,
so it's good that it's Yeah, it's finally bail on
it because it is. It is an awesome product and
there's got to be value in it.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Someway good only, Nigel. We always always appreciate your ketchups
on the Muster and catch it a couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Catch up.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Well into it, nigea wad head in South Otago between
bout Cleuther and Milton. Just reiterating the positors for the season,
and like Jeordie said before as well regarding the schedules,
certainly the good news story for a lot of people.
Jason arches up next in the Beef and Lamb slot.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
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Speaker 1 (18:57):
Thanks for the team of Beef and Lamb New Zealand.
We catch up Jason Archer, head of genetics for Beef
and Lamb. Jason, good afternoon, and welcome to the Muster here.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
Good afternoon. Thanks having me right.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
It's ball selling season, so all of a sudden, genetics
comes forefront to mind for a lot of farmers, especially
well especially beef farmers.
Speaker 7 (19:17):
Sure, yep, yep, that's that one. Day of the year
where really I've got to concentrate on this, right, So.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
What's the one thing. Okay, we're going back to the
nuts and bolts, and I mean there's no one size
fits for every operation, but the basics around genetics, I mean,
I suppose it evolves like anything.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
And so in terms of buying balls, I think you know,
the number one decision you make is which driveway to
drive up, So, in other words, finding the breeder that's
aligned to you and what you want to do. So,
as you just said, there is no one size fits
all because we've all got different farms and farming systems,
and we're all in different places in terms of our
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genetic program as well. And so you know, the first
thing really is to think about what are your goals
and what do you want this ball to do for you?
You know, what's your priorities is? You know, do you
want extra growth to get animals away at twenty months?
Are your animals a bit lean when you're killing them?
So therefore we need a bit more fat on the carcass.
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Do we want to think about carcass quality, you know,
interramascular fat and chase those premiums that are available from some
companies or is it more about the fertility of your cows?
And you know, is that a management thing versus a
genetics thing. So yeah, being really clear about what you
want from the ball that you're about to buy, and
you know also its purpose. Are you going to use
them over mixed stage cows? Do you have to go
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over the heifers so which obviously carvings becomes a thing
more important thing then or is he terminal and you
don't need to You won't be keeping any any daughters
so therefore, you know, fatility and those things don't matter
at all. So yeah, it's been real clear about what
you want to what you want to do first.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Hybrid vigor and everything comes unto the equation as well.
I mean there's a pleaser of things and like you say,
it's about doing your due diligence.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
And so we've got a tool called Improof which we
now have beef balls on and you can go onto
that tool that's improved dot MZ and you click the
beef button on it. And basically the bulls from Angus
that are registered with Angus New Zealand, New Zealand. Hereford's
New Zealand Simite and New Zealand short On are on there,
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and we know there are some gaps there, so we
are working to get the Angus pro balls On on
the south of Deven balls On and some other breeds.
And in that tool, you can basically say, right, oh,
I want a maternal bull, so click on a maternal button.
I want it from of this breed, and it will
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give you an index. And then you can also then
have a look at all the individual components of that
index and start moving sliders to describe essentially what's important
to you, and then it will come up with a
list of you know, which are the breeders and which
are the animals that most aligned to your to whatever
objective you put into there. So it's a really good
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tool for you to be just looking at and saying, well,
you know, am I going to the right Am I
driving up the right driveway? Or is there some other
driveways that I could be thinking about driving up as well? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Can buying a ball though be unnecessarily complicated?
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (22:20):
It can. And so that's why I keep on talking
about It's about focus, right, So being real clear about
what traits matter and what ones don't matter. And that
applies to data, but it also applies to phenotype as well,
and it's really important that we just focus on the
things that are, you know, that either make you money
or save you money, and we don't get distracted by
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the other things. And I always say, well, my suggestion
is that you know, in a catalog, you've got the
data there, I'd say, you know, work out the twenty
percent of balls in a sale catalog that best fit
on data, and then go and have a look at
those balls and knock out the ones that don't fit
on phenotype, because phenotype is important, right. There are attributes
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of phenotype that are really important, you know, such as
will the ball last? You know, has you got enough
serving capacity to get cows pregnant, et cetera, And so
that is important. But once you found the top twenty
percent of balls for you, not necessarily for others, for
someone else, but for you on data, and then you
knock out half of them maybe on phenotype, you're probably
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left with the target of you know, five or six
balls at their average at their average sale, and you
should be able to focus on those ones.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
So improve is pretty is proving popular amongst bull buyers.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Yeah, for sure, we're seeing good use, good use of stats.
It was out last year and you know it made
a bit of a splash last year, and you know
we've had to improve operating in the sheep side of
things for five or six years now, and you know
we're find out growing and growing. I think last year
for sheep, we think we had about nineteen thousand hits
on it, you know, and Bearing a Mind is only
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ten thousand sheep and beef farmers. And you're yelling, so yeah,
it's getting It is being used a lot by farmers,
and it's a useful tool. The other thing I would
say when when people go to a sailor is you know,
when you've got those balls picked out, the number one
ball often goes for really big money, and it might
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be above your budget. And that's the ball that has
it all. You know, it's got all the data, but
it's also got the pheno type and the overall package
and the looks and it's a pretty ball and all
that sort of thing. That ball off goes for a lot.
But if you look at your list, the number two
ball in terms of performance and suitability is often not
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far behind that number one ball, but it's a long
way behind in price. So you know, there is some
good buying out there in terms of if you can
focus on what you need and you don't have to
get the number one ball because the number two ball
is almost as good and probably you know, only two
thirds of the price. So that's that's another thing I
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think to bear in mind.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
With with this, and this is irrelevant considering the beef
markets on a high at the moment too.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and you know, long may it stay
that way. You know, there's a worldwide shortage of protein
as we all know, you know, things in the US,
which pretty much drives the worldwide beef price. You know,
they just can't get enough. They just can't get enough
beef there. And they've got a few of their issues
of their own in terms of screw worm. In Mexico
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is stopping to close the southern border and there's normally
about a moving cattle come across that border a year.
So yeah, things are going crazy over there and around
the world, and that's been reflected in the opportunity and
the prices that we're receiving. So, you know, I think
all things being equal, you know, there's there's a lot
of value in buying a good ball this year.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Jason Archer ahead of Genetics of Beef in that New Zealand.
Thanks for your time on the Muster, Please you Jason
Archer of Beef and their New Zealand. Click beeflamens in
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the end of the Hour of Nathan Burden.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Me.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Welcome back to the Muster. Isler Pringle joins us now
out of head shape. She was at twenty twenty five
of Targo's South and Totago Sheer Milker of the Year
along with her partner Hayden. She's involved with Nightcaps Young Farmers,
and she joins us once again. Good afternoon, Hey, how
are you going? Yeah? Pretty good? Hell things of you.
You're getting through the start of May pretty well?
Speaker 8 (26:47):
Yeah, that's definitely May anyway that the rains turned up
and the girls are slide down and we're about ready
to be done with the season two.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
When it gets to May, you're doing the grind of milking?
Are you just counting down the days until dry off
because you're over it? Or Is it a case of
its money coming in?
Speaker 8 (27:09):
Yeah, Oh, but it both andy, I mean yeah, like
I said, the girls slow down and we're about ready
for it to all be done as well, so but
you be're grateful for the milk coming in as well.
So yeah, looking forward to it, but yeah, there's still
quite a bit of work to be done before then.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I suppose when's dry off.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
Probably look at it the twenty fifth, twenty sixth somewhere there.
Just you sort of depends how these ground conditions hold on.
It's gotten pretty weety out their way, so yeah, it
all dependent. Really, you even know what Mother Nature's going
to throw you.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
So generally when you pick a date for dry off,
you don't tend to deviate.
Speaker 8 (27:53):
Oh we have in the past. Yeah, that's just sort
of because with the current farm owner and their contract
and stuff. So just making sure there's enough grass and
sitting themselves up the next year. So well, yeah, like
you said, while still getting a bit of milk in
the vet at the end of the season. So we'll
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just wait and see. Really, I don't know a few
few ordans to go with youring off a week early,
because it's got the pick itself real here so yeah,
all dependent. Every runs in the same boat, really.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Because under recently you speak to you certain people saying,
if you've got a date of mind, you stick to it.
You think your grasscover is going through the winter. Other
people are saying, well, if you've got the opportunity to
carry on with that and everything's in your favor, then continue.
Did you find anything that doesn't work out when you
change your date?
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (28:44):
Not really, Well you just have to be Yeah, you
have to think about the next season. That this time
of year as well, which is a juggling point, like
you know, you can push it if you want get
some more milk in the vet. But yeah, you also
have to think about the spring, and you know spring
hasn't been the best in the past few years, so
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I have to think about those covers and the left
of guy.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
So you said you've had quite a bit of rain there.
How's the growth been anyway?
Speaker 8 (29:14):
Oh, she's pretty slow. I'm not one hundred percent. I
don't know the complete figure.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
But.
Speaker 8 (29:19):
Yeah, it's just pretty slow. And there's a bit of
water out that way. So while we had a bit
of a flood or two or three weeks ago, now
sort of hasn't least and then yeah, this rains in
the past, last since the start of the week, well
probably Friday. It's sort of yeah, hasn't helped, been that
just like a lies flooding.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (29:42):
We were sort of the only ones that well and
he joked, sort of the only ones that got flooding.
So I don't know, must have been pretty localized.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Crazy how that happens. But I mean, microclimates exist all
around the province, and I remember especially up in Cattle
flat out of nowhere, the river's coming u up, You've
got his gold. But up country is a different story.
And did I twenty twenty when gor went on flood
alert back in February twenty twenty, and all of a sudden,
it was like twenty degrees outside. We're being told to
leave town.
Speaker 8 (30:12):
Yeah, the floods are a weird thing. It's just about
the location and how heavy at what point, And you know,
like when it's big catchman for a hilly catchment that
all of a sudden it's bloody, you know, filled up
the whole river.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
So yeah, so have you got extensive waterways around your farm?
When you say this occurred.
Speaker 8 (30:35):
Oh, we border the tea food stream and it merges
into the Chope Stream just on their on their property.
So yeah, one sort of north north side sort of
borders the northwest, I guess, borders rivers sort of what
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it is.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
So for winter ring, do you take the girls off fun?
Speaker 8 (31:00):
Yeah, yeah, they're off so pretty local, which is good.
And yeah, it just gives us a wee bit of
a break, which is also nice.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
So when the girls are off the firm, they're doing
their winter grazing and the likes. What's the focus for
you guys? I suppose first and foremost you need to
reach out yourself. But then you just try and go
in and do a few in our names or.
Speaker 8 (31:20):
What's the go Yeah, pretty much just like you're just
you know, tiny out those jobs that have been sitting
there for a while and just yeah, we've got to
weave it. We want to go a few just hagging
over the rains. So you're just odd jobs and helping
out neighbors and friends and.
Speaker 7 (31:41):
Things like that.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
So that's quite a fun bit of a year. We
can do all those random things that you don't usually do.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
And then again it all starts at a couple of
months time. But I mean they're still a wee while
the way you've got to live for the prison.
Speaker 8 (31:54):
Yeah, it's just live it up in the main one
go to the pub.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Plenty of young farmers events happening by the sound of it.
Speaker 8 (32:04):
So that's good.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Weave are going on and you've got the boots on
for Big River again this year. Club Rugby, how's it fairing?
Their head? Dave later on the show used today of
course kluth is when fifty of coming up this weekend,
you've played quite a bit of Club Rugby now while
would you say it's some pretty good heart of what
you've sayen through a tago Southland?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (32:21):
Yeah, well yeah's it's a funny one that fluctuates all
the time, I reckon and for clubs like you'll get
a cohort of school leavers and I'll go to a
single club and then you've got you know, sort of
rotates around different clubs. So I don't know instept especially,
and that's what seems to happen on. Yeah, I still
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think it's kind of the hard of the country immunity
and it'll be a shame it makes sense, So I
think it's I mean, it's definitely least than it used
to be. It's still it's still present, it's still there,
and you still have a modern community support around it.
So yeah, yeah, I hope it stays.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Two words community fabric. You can't you can't underestimate that.
Speaker 8 (33:13):
No, that's and it really is. Like, yeah, like if you'
move to a different community or a new community, it's
one way to sort of get into it pretty much
straight away, hasn't it meet people and start building those connections.
So yeah, it'd be a real shame if it if
it wasn't there, if they.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Weren't there, well said either, Hey, we'll let you carry
on all the best until the end of the milking
season and you enjoy the afternoon. It's good to chat.
Speaker 8 (33:38):
That's so easy, and they will kitchens on.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Either. Preme Girl based out of head Shape. Before you
wrap up, our resident Sporting Gury, Nathan Burden, you talk
about a sport. Nathan burdens our residence Sporting Guru joins
us once again. Good afternoon, Nathan, howse sings in the
(34:05):
big smoke.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
Yeah all good here, mates. Yet we're in the build
up now to the Ilt South and Sports Awards actually
during the twelfth so everything's sort of pointing in that
direction is going to be a great night again at
Ilt Stadium South And in a few weeks time, So
those ticket sales are going to be opened very soon,
so people can keep an eye up for that.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Jacob Duffy cleans up, doesn't he.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
I think Jacob Duffy will certainly be in the conversation.
I think having been the Aussie, the New Zealand Cricket
Player of the Year and broke pedals as which he
caught for most wickets in a calendar year, I think
you'd have to say.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
I think he's a good start of charts. Yeah, Graham
Henry Beck in the Ill Blacks as a selector, seventy
nine years.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
Young, seventy nine years young, a huge wealth of institutional
rugby knowledge. And I think even more than that, just
that institutional knowledge of how to bring groups of young
men together. I just I think it's a it's a
bit of a master stroke, to be honest, and and
it's you know, Dave Reenie's really not putting a foot
(35:15):
wrong at the moment, is he. Which you talk about
winning the off season, I think that's Dave any sort
of doing that at the moment.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Well, whenever you change your black coach all of a sudden,
you get the belief you're going to win the next
World Cup.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
Yeah, I guess everyone's everyone's got a set famous saying
that everyone's got a plan until they get punched in
the face. It's a it's a massive season coming up,
isn't it that That tour of South Africa is large,
a huge challenge And I was reading the other day
and it's only it's only a ten day gap between
the end of Super Rugby and the and the first
Test against France, So definitely a challenge for Dave Annie.
(35:51):
But yeah, I've liked, I've liked lots about what he's
been saying. Obviously, Graham Henry has been doing the media
around since he was announced as well, and you sort of,
I guess the common instead of being made it all,
it all rings pretty true. It sounds like a sort
of an attempt to return to, you know, the DNA
of all black rugby and we need it. You know,
it's been a it's been a tough couple of years,
(36:11):
so you know, it's exciting kinds.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
I think David Letter to going to the INNS Board.
He's vice president, very very astute acquisition.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Yeah, we're yeah talking about sort of grassroots rugby and
the Hintlein. You know, no one played harder than than
Crazy Letter did. He just an outstanding provincial man. So
he'll he'll, he'll ensure that the old provincial fires are
being considered that at the at the top, which is
which is great to see.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Now Regartding the Highland has he got the Chiefs this week?
Where are we yet with the Highlanders? Nathan? You put
this into context for us? Are you betting against them?
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Am I betting against them? They would be hard to
pick against the Chiefs. Against the Chiefs team, that's you know,
it's got there. They've got their site set on the
on the playoffs, I think mathematically obviously the Highlanders still
have a chance. But they've got a tough run home,
don't they are they rebuilding the next year. Every time
I don't back them, they win. Every time I do
(37:10):
back them, they lose. They're a frustrating team to follow
at the moment.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Now the Warriors, the wise Luke Metcalf's You've almost think
he's got the pet because he hasn't got his place
back because Tennor Boyd's played so well.
Speaker 5 (37:23):
Yeah, interesting so that the club of sort of let
him loose and said he can he can have a
scout around. You've got a player who on the news
last night there saying is on a million dollar contract,
which I probably don't know enough in terms of how
relevant that is. I'd imagine that's like a that's quite
a top.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Tier absolutely contract.
Speaker 5 (37:46):
So in that regards, you know, it's when you when
you get the big money, you've got to get the
big performances, don't you. So I guess there's a few
questions around around whether his heart's still there in terms
of the Warriors.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
The big years and rugby leagues circles. Though, Ivan Cleary
that jugg Alaud of a coach with the Penrith Panthers club.
He's finishing up at the end of next season, and
then all of a sudden they're talking about a Penrift
team being disestablished, which is arguably on the edge of
another dynasty.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
Yeah, I mean, and what a dynasty it's been so
far for Nral titles and a runner up finish in
the space of six years in what is arguably one
of the toughest sporting leagues in the world. It's been
a heck of a. It's been a heck of a
shift from Ivan Cleary, and you don't blame him for
(38:35):
wanting to sort of step aside at fifty five. I think,
especially in a competition with a salary cap like that,
it's probably one thing to be able to pull a
team together for one or two years with your stars,
but being able to shuffle your players around and operate
under that cap and still being able to perform over
over five and six years is just an outstanding effort. Also,
(38:55):
think about that the father son dynamic, which is a
something you see a bit in sport, but you probably
see it fail more than it succeeds. It's definitely succeeded
at the Panthers.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Southern Steel top of the table away to the Pulse
on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
Yeah, and hopefully they can just keep rolling on.
Speaker 7 (39:12):
Eh.
Speaker 5 (39:12):
They have been playing some really good solid neatball better
than solid too, that's probably that's probably understating it. If anything,
that probably just one quarter a game that they aren't
quite nailing, so they know they may have to do
that against the Pulse. If these are two teams who
are probably really battling out, you know they'll be teams
(39:35):
that are both in the mix for the for the playoffs.
So a win in this game and what is a
pretty short competition will go a long way to seeing
that the steel sort of get back up where we've
wanted them to be for it for a number of years,
and that's.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Back in the playoffs and the NBL the Sharks. They've
got four games and seventeen days. It's not an easy schedule,
but going by what I say I've put in the
Tribune in this morning, very good right up. Concidentally, they're
all for it, so looking forward to seeing how they
go out and go over the next week or two.
Speaker 5 (40:03):
Yeah, and they're a team that are performing really well.
Is it's a massive challenge. They have been playing some
of the majority of teams who are below them in
the leagues, so now they get an opportunity to really
test themselves against the sort of teams who are also
going to be in the mix in terms of the
playoff conversation. So yeah, it is a big It's a
big sixteen or seventeen days starting starting tonight against the
(40:28):
tabletopping to Atara. So but yeah, they are going really
well and they've got some talent still to come into
that team, so hopefully they can keep it rolling as well.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
The Wellington Phoenix women. They're in the first final for
New Zealand footballing franchise. But we talk about the story
of Bev Prices. When the Canadian coach you got done
for spying ultimately comes over to the next and does
great things.
Speaker 5 (40:51):
What a redemption story a like Yes, serves a one
year's one year ban from the game over drowing gate
while with the Canadian team. Never any question about her
ability as a coach. She's been able to do it
all over the world and had a huge amount of success.
So it was it was an incredible get for the
(41:13):
Phoenix in great timing that they just happened to be
scouting for a coach at about the time that she
was coming off that band. I guess it's a few
question marks around sort of. I guess you know, whether
whether someone should walk back into such a high profile
job after after an incident like that, But I guess
you know, you serve your time, and sports one of
(41:34):
those things where you do you know, you get another
opportunity and she's grabbed that and that I think from
from what i've I've seen the vision from after games
and things like that, like the players definitely believe had
belief in I want to play for her and that
sort of thing. So it's been a it's been a
really interesting story.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Just finally as well a shout out to Right Sposh
Rugby club on social media during the week after players
didn't go so well for well for the team last week.
But club Rugby, we need to keep these teams going
as long as we can.
Speaker 5 (42:06):
Yeah, it's a what's a it's a famous old club,
rights Bosh. Yeah, isn't it home of home of Lister Rutledge?
And it's not easy at the airs that the I
think of my old my old club country pirates very
much a distant memory. Once once the clubs, once those
clubs are gone, they are gone. And but they you know,
(42:28):
they're such a hub for the community at their best
that you're right, it's it is sad to see them go.
And and hopefully there's enough sort of will and will
in the way to keep Rights Bush going for as
long as it needs to.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
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selling action. It occurred at the Charlton sale yards this morning.
Dave Morrison's on the line to give a rundown on prices.
Tagle good afternoon, how do we fear?
Speaker 4 (43:32):
Anon? And yeah, look just another good good Vidium size
had just out of the prime lambs, the best of
the prime lambs, big big heavy lambs to fifty to
two sixty, just.
Speaker 9 (43:44):
The lighter prime lands. It's probably should probably should be
over the stores.
Speaker 5 (43:49):
What did you think?
Speaker 9 (43:50):
There was sort of one fifty seventy and the rams
quite quite a number of rams from a tri again
and they are ready from from seventy to had.
Speaker 4 (43:59):
Twenty dollars into the U section small.
Speaker 9 (44:02):
Other of us there any olds and the U numbers
trying to run out the best big heavy, monster heavy
years two twenty to two thirty mediums anyway from one
sixty one seventy five with the light of the dues
still has spilling ways of one hundred and ten hundred
and twenty hundred and twenty five dollars. Hundred and fifty
dollars tall lambs. Yeah, good times you having stall lamps
there today. Yeah, med a pretty good demand once again,
(44:26):
probably four or five interesting parties and they say buying
O bidding best stall lamps for one seventy five to
one nineteen. It's good, it's very good. Lands Ford lambs,
many a plants still one fifteen five to one sixteen,
one sixty five with the spot lighter of the lambs
selling pretty well anyway from perhaps one hundred and ten
two hundred and thirty dollars, and that wraps it up
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in a gild a been
Good afternoon, and welcome to the Master one Hokanui. My
name's Andy Muer and we're here until two o'clock this
afternoon thanks to the team at Peter's Genetics. Excuse the
voice just that time with you, and a bit of
a croak going on in the throat, but anyway, we
carry on and tell you what, it's pretty foggy here.
I'm looking out over Main Street towards the hills there
(00:22):
over the Mattawa River and it's like peace suit. We're
still waiting for the fog to live here in the
middle of Gore. So yeah, just be warned if you're
driving around too. I think it's opened up in parts
of the province, but not here in the middle of gtown. Anyway,
crank into it creates clear water revival.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
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Speaker 1 (00:52):
This afternoon sunny with light sal Westley's in a high
of twelve Friday, cloudy have come variable wins to and
ten Saturday, Sunday and Monday, or a rinse and repeat
of sunshine with calm variable winds one in ten on Saturday,
zero in ten on Sunday and mondays, so nice and
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easy there to decipher. Only saw a temperature in this.
Afternoons Clinton at tense, so straight into who's on today?
Jeordiyed farming over at Riverton, the River of the South,
talking about the price of fuel and how it scenes
have come back, especially in a bulk distribution form. So yeah,
it a bit of a win. They're going on there.
(01:33):
Geordie just elaborates on it a bit more. Nigel would
head farming in South Otago between Balcluther and Winton, looking
at the season, getting into silly string time on farm,
but the rise of war when Noise just thinks, yeah
long wye this continue and here to that. Jason Archer,
a b for their New Zealand talks genetics ahead of
the ball selling season. Eiler Pringle from Headgechoke, not far
(01:56):
away from dry Off on the dairy farm. So have
a regular catch up with Eiler and our residents. Sporting
gury Nathan Burdon talking rugby league and the worry is
this Luke Metcalfe situation as any player bigger than the team,
we talk about that Dave Morrison at PGG Rights and
gives a rundown from the stock sale that occurred at
Charlton this morning. There will crank straight into it with
(02:18):
Jordi Ed. This is a muster until two o'clock, of course,
thanks to Peterson Edicts coming up seven after one.
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Speaker 1 (02:42):
Jordi Eed farms over at the river Era of the South,
which is of course beautiful Riverton and we catch up Jordy.
Good afternoon. How's everything at the river Era?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Good afternoon, Andy. Yeah, the sun's out now before you
this morning. But nice to see the sun really after
a favorite of crappy weather over the weekend. We had
sixty year and thankful that only the dairy farm only
got half that. But yeah, we certainly had enough. Ye,
I wouldn't really want to see anymore for the until
the end of May. It'd be quite good if we
can see it out on this you've had enough so.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Your rainfall figures? Would you be behind the eight ball
for the season?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
No, we're about fifty ahead of this time last year,
so we're up to about that five fifty five sixty
marks already for this year. So yeah, it's probably a
round about normal for about a fourteen hundred milimeter rainfall
for the season. So yeah, so we're about there running
on average, you would.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Say, So, how are your covers looking?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah, I know the covers are really good with grass
growth all the way through really, I mean, you know,
April has been as good as grass growing years as January,
so you know, the covers have all done pretty well.
You know the user on bro hind fences now, so
you know what you're a bit of grass grows now,
keep it, store it and keep it for the winter.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
So you've got all the lambs away, Yeah, I've got.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
One hundred and forty left, but they are just probably
they were due to go next week. Could I pushed
out a following week? We've still got a bit of
feet there for them, so I might as well just
keep I'm on the schedule went back up again on
Friday night, so it's gone the right direction again.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Well how much does it drop with your company over
the season, They wouldn't have been stuff all.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, I think they might have dropped probably twenty cents
in the whole season. So you know, that's unbelievable because
you normally get that weaning draft and you sort of
you know, there's sort of maybe sixty eighty cents drops
out of it, you know as you come into January,
but for it to hold as it did, you know,
it only dropped that sort of twenty to thirty cents. Yeah,
it's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Really.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Now you've got a dairy farm over over in your
neck of the Words too that you're operating, so you've
got a lot of bases covered. How's it been there.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, and it's been really good. We have a sort
of a unique sort of set up there as the
farm's sort of divided into forty nine paddocks, only one
hundred and twenty three hectores and forty nine paddocks, and
we do a twenty three day round from start to
finish because the grass grows the all year round, so
it's quite unique and we just you know, as you
get into these months, you just sort of start wearing
your covers down a bit, and you know it seems
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to work really well.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Really.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
It's easy for a management position anyway.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Growing grass all year around, that's a hell of a
problem for South one.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Oh it is.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, yeah, No, I think I don't know. I think
the winters where they get more mild, I don't know.
From when I was a kid, I can remember playing
a lot of rapian fross anyway, But you've been right
down down the estuary. It doesn't get much frost anyway,
And yeah, I mean it's one benefit. You can probably
take a bend down there anyway.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
So how the cows be milking as you come towards
the end of the season.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
You were about on par now what we're doing this
time last year, but we're sort of about four ver
sen ahead, but we lost those six days of the windstorms,
so to be sort of three or four sena head.
And when you take six days out of it, I'll
take it and run. So you know, they've been milking
really well of late. We had a few higher emptiers
this year, but I went through them and they're all
older cows. But it was something bit unusual was that
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we didn't take milk until the middle November. So that's
contrasting with trying to get them in calf at that
time too. That could have been a bit of an effect,
but I suppose we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
He were talking about the days l Since you're Jordie,
it sounds as it was not supply won't be an
is shoe. The price needs to relax of it. Although
you were telling me before that bulk delivery exclusive has
actually come right back to what it was.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Yeah, it's come back.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
You know, it's come back probably a good sixty or
seventy cents from what it was about a month ago.
But yeah, so the bulk delivery, so you know, that's
probably everybody that used a lot of fuel that's sort
of you know, will be getting that sort of rate back.
I mean, one thing that's probably really annoying me is
the FAFS amongst the transport companies. There's no consistency. Every
transport company or contractor has a different rate or just
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asked if they all could have the same. So yeah,
it's annoying, really annoying.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That's a bit like any contractor though they're going to
be horses for course. Is the way they want to
sell their product though, wouldn't it.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yeah, I suppose you're right, Yeah, I suppose then you know,
I was in buying even all folders in the mcagle
last Friday, and even there they've got to sign up
that they've got an faf on buying all fielders. So yeah,
wait till they have that on the supmarket shelf or
as into the suit market, that might cause a bit agress.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Well, all of a sudden, the himaz straight. I said
this the other day, it's going to be one of
the terms of the twenty twenties that we're going to
look back at about ten twenty years time and either
chuckle or win sad.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah, Well, to be fair, probably before this I'd never
even heard of it.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
It's one thing about these world issues. You're learning geography
all the time. But look, I'm still getting my email
from the field company I was with that I was
on the farm and the greatest wording for hoarding is
precautionary ordering. And I was saying everything's back to normal now,
but a lot of precautionary ordering was going on when
all this stuff kicked off. So it sounds as though
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deliveries are going back to normal.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yeah, I mean, there's only so much you can store
on farms. I suppose it was that, but a rush
to get all that filled up. I know myself, I
was getting down a bit, so you know, I just
probably get a filled up. But then everybody else did
all the same thing. So you know, we have central
heating for the house too, so I was sort of
probably making sure that it was going to run out
for diesel for that, So you know, I think the
precautionary ordering was probably And then that's you know, that
ship sailed and we're all got enough now and I
(08:04):
think we'll probably see out there want to not need
much more.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, there's not one thing, it's the other. Hey, I'll
leave you with this. I'll get this your thoughts on
this before we wrap up as well. Regarding council amalgamation
down here in the South, what are your thoughts.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Yeah, no, I thought I think it definitely needs to
be done. You know, I'm always been an advocate. I
can't you know, I can't understand how gore On itself
has a mayor and a council for the little amount
of people. What has I mean that of any amalgamation,
I can't understand how they're not under the district council.
But I mean there's sort of a few. Rob Scott had
quite a good article in the Southern Times, so I
we'd only get the Southern Times on a Saturday. And
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you know about how these sort of duplication things done,
and they're trying to work with one another, and I
understand that, you know, I think it's probably a good
thing as long as everybody can still get the essay,
I suppose.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
And that's a big thing being a democracy. And the
councils have been given three months to work this out,
to work it out otherwise it's going to be worked
out for them.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, well that's right too, But I mean saying that
it wasn't really put on. They knew that it was coming.
So it's been no year, there's been no shock.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
You would say, good.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Only Jordy will leave it there.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Enjoy the vo No good San shawning, sir, thank you, goodhead, Jordy.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yet the river of the South, which is Riverton. You're
the greatest word for hoarding precautionary ordering. Gotta love ternology, right.
Nigea wood heads up next up in South Otago. You're
listening to the master hurricane away to South Otago on
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the muster this afternoon. Niga Woodhead farming between bell Cluth
and Milton with a bit of a deviation of State
Highway one towards the hills, and he's around there somewhere.
Good day, night, how are you? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Goodbye? Pretty good on a day like today, the sun
is shining.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I pretty much nailed your location there, saying you just
deviate or State Hiway won by a couple of caves.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Yeah, but we're out on the coastal side of the
main drag, not towards the hills. But yeah, we're only
three k's off the main drag.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
So talking to a few people at the moment, jordyy
just before saying hell, well, it's just got sticky all
of a sudden over at Riverton where you were based.
Are you? Are you looking like that?
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Use today was windy and today's nice sunny day, so
it's driving the surface out a bit. But yeah, in
the weekend it was weird. Yeah, holy mom, it got
wet in the hell.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Of are.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Just started a couple of mobs of calves on fotoweek
this morning and was a bit worried they were going
to make a mess. But yeah, a couple of nice
days and yeah there's no mud, so it's good. So yeah,
should be hell of a long winter. If we're making
mud already.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Are you getting frost because there's been a lack of
it around the province.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
We've had a couple, I think, but nothing nothing too major.
There was a space of them there earlier on and
they got cold there for a bit. But now we
haven't been too badful for us. It's good, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
It certainly he helps temperatures at the moment. If you
can stay around the double digit mark for getting towards
the middle of May, it's certainly every day is a
day that you save for a bit of feed.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Oh yeah, no, we'll still be growing growing grass slowly. Yeah,
but we're tight for feed man, we're tight. We probably
as tight as we have been this time of year.
I don't know if I mentioned that last time we
were talking, but we couldn't couldn't get bull spaced for
about a month. I had fifty big balls still on
and we're forty of them ready to go. And you
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know at five hundred and fifty six and Akilo eats
fear bit attacker, So that month year really cost us
a heap of grass. So as a result, they're heading
for a little balls are just waiting to go on
the trucks, for they're pretty added sort of all the
north of five hundred kilos. It's not quite heavy enough
to kill. And the last three hundred and twenty lambs
(12:03):
went on a truck store the other day. I was
hoping to finish all my balls and all my lambs
this year, and I was close, but not quite. You know,
it's you know, there's still worth plenty of money, and
you've got to make a decision this, Timmy. You don't
you predict next years and next year's and come.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I can hear the tooes going in the background. That's
pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Yeah, well you have a few native birds just floating around.
Actually that's cool. Actually they're just in the trees and
behind the dopkins. So you love the old native birds when.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
You get the toes or the bell birds just singing
your way and you're doing a job and you just
put everything that puts everything in the into perspective to
suppose about why you do it, why you do what
you do?
Speaker 4 (12:42):
One hundred. It's pretty fun. Actually, I'm just standing out
in front of my shield and there's haying for a
bentail just snooping around. I hope they're eating some of
these clusterflyers.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
How bad is a classify situation for you?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Oh? Pretty bad? Yeah, not good? What's doing the other day?
When to grab acain the drink off a shelf and
the wallshed and pulled it, you know, and it was
up against the wall and pulled it off, and you
know it's like you know how they like sit between
and get like that. There was like a whole gazillion
of them stacked in between the drink drum and the wall.
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It gives you the willies. I hate the cluster for us.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Actually, you bring up the number gazillion. I think gazillion
should be recognized as a number, not necessarily placed after
a million or a chillion, but it basically means a lot.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Oh yeah, well you say a gazillion, know, someone's talking
about a truckload of something, right, so absolutely, no, that's
an accurate Well it's not an accurate number, but it's
a good depiction of what we're talking about. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
You talk about getting these animals away. Initially did mention
it a couple of weeks ago, trying to get these
bulls off to the works. Jeordie talked about it before
though the schedule actually coming back up at the weekend
and hasn't dropped bugger rule.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
No, no, no, it's here like the bull schedules sort
of around nine and what do I say the lamb
shood you was ten thirty or teen to forty or something,
So yeah, we'll take it. It's good. The last lot
of my works them have just been on the truck.
The prime lambs were on the track this morning, and
I don't know. They might do They might do nineteen
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in the stretch. I'm doating something. They definitely felt heavier
dragon and they have the board yesterday than they look,
so yeah, I hope they'll be hopefully there'll be a
two in front of the in front of the price there.
It's good. Yes, It's an unbelievable season, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
What would your lambs be everaging over the past couple
of the season's.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Nightge, You can't even compare this year to previous years,
like you just literally can't compare them like we Like
I said, I was hoping to finish everything, and we
only sold those three twenty earlier in the weekly. The
only stare ends were done all year. If you take
my wedding drafts, if you put them to one side
with averaging north of nineteen And yeah, I think we've
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only had one draft since since January go under nineteen
and it was eighteen point nine something something as well.
So yeah, but then like last year, in the year before,
we sold probably seventy eight of our lamb store. So
it's just you can't even compare the seasons makes it
pretty tough farming. Not being able to, you know, actually
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have a pretty good idea of what you're going to do.
Like you know, if we if it rains at Christmas
and we ever got of feed, they will finish them
and if it doesn't then we have to sell them store.
It's not a perfect business model, but that is what
we've got to the authors.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
No, but you've got levers as we call it in
the game that you can pull if you need to.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Well that's why yeah, yeah, and that's why we like
the freezing bulls because they're usually the first thing to go.
But it's yeah, and it's quite nice having a balance
between kettle and sheep, Like if it's a really good
spring and finger, it's the way you you've got lots
of longer feed around. Then you get rid of lambs
because they're not going to do so well on that
line the feed and keep the kettle that can handle
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that slightly longer feed as opposed if it's the place
short and green and it looks like it's getting a
bit dry, where you hold onto the lambs because they
like that short stuff and ditch the kettle. So yeah,
it's quite good having that balance. And we reared a
handful extra carves a see read seventy five and then
bought an extra at something, so a few more cattle
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and hopefully they'll try and just balance things out of it.
You know, if we decide to pull the pull the
liver on kettle, then it's a bigger whack of mouths
off the platform in one go. If we want to
sell some store, if it makes sense. So yeah, well
we'll see like I might if it turns wet in July,
I might regret having one hundred and twenty balls instead
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of sixty. But well, yeah, we should be we should
be right. We've got plenty of plenty of options for
we had to put kettle if it gets wet in
the window in the spring.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah, we know all know how protein is looking at
the moment. What about your wiel check for the seas
and how would that rate?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Yeah, that's probably almost been as big as surprise as anything.
Like you know, we we we're expecting reasonable money for
lemon faflutely. I mean, I don't know. I don't think
anyone had ten or eleven dollars in their budget, but
we're expecting things to be not too bad. But yeah,
I think I just get an awful use day of
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six dollars already something for my two do well clean,
So yeah, we'll take that fantastic.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah, so we'll compete anyway.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Oh yeah, I mean it's well, like the war account
and the accounts at the end of the year, is
can have a positive in front of it, which it
hasn't for a long time, so unbelievable. Yeah, I'm unreal.
It's so good just to have that part of the
business planet's way for a change, which again, you know,
if you're a root of businessman, comments like oh it's
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good to have that part of the business planet's way
again is probably not something you want to say too often,
but you know, here we are, we have to produce
the stuff if we're growing the type of sheet we produce,
so it's good that it's Yeah, it's finally bail on
it because it is. It is an awesome product and
there's got to be value in it.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Someway good only, Nigel. We always always appreciate your ketchups
on the Muster and catch it a couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Catch up.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Well into it, nigea wad head in South Otago between
bout Cleuther and Milton. Just reiterating the positors for the season,
and like Jeordie said before as well regarding the schedules,
certainly the good news story for a lot of people.
Jason arches up next in the Beef and Lamb slot.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
The Muster Events Diary, brought to you by Beef and
Lamb New Zealand click Beef lamb endz dot com.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Thanks for the team of Beef and Lamb New Zealand.
We catch up Jason Archer, head of genetics for Beef
and Lamb. Jason, good afternoon, and welcome to the Muster here.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
Good afternoon. Thanks having me right.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
It's ball selling season, so all of a sudden, genetics
comes forefront to mind for a lot of farmers, especially
well especially beef farmers.
Speaker 7 (19:17):
Sure, yep, yep, that's that one. Day of the year
where really I've got to concentrate on this, right, So.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
What's the one thing. Okay, we're going back to the
nuts and bolts, and I mean there's no one size
fits for every operation, but the basics around genetics, I mean,
I suppose it evolves like anything.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
And so in terms of buying balls, I think you know,
the number one decision you make is which driveway to
drive up, So, in other words, finding the breeder that's
aligned to you and what you want to do. So,
as you just said, there is no one size fits
all because we've all got different farms and farming systems,
and we're all in different places in terms of our
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genetic program as well. And so you know, the first
thing really is to think about what are your goals
and what do you want this ball to do for you?
You know, what's your priorities is? You know, do you
want extra growth to get animals away at twenty months?
Are your animals a bit lean when you're killing them?
So therefore we need a bit more fat on the carcass.
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Do we want to think about carcass quality, you know,
interramascular fat and chase those premiums that are available from some
companies or is it more about the fertility of your cows?
And you know, is that a management thing versus a
genetics thing. So yeah, being really clear about what you
want from the ball that you're about to buy, and
you know also its purpose. Are you going to use
them over mixed stage cows? Do you have to go
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over the heifers so which obviously carvings becomes a thing
more important thing then or is he terminal and you
don't need to You won't be keeping any any daughters
so therefore, you know, fatility and those things don't matter
at all. So yeah, it's been real clear about what
you want to what you want to do first.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Hybrid vigor and everything comes unto the equation as well.
I mean there's a pleaser of things and like you say,
it's about doing your due diligence.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
And so we've got a tool called Improof which we
now have beef balls on and you can go onto
that tool that's improved dot MZ and you click the
beef button on it. And basically the bulls from Angus
that are registered with Angus New Zealand, New Zealand. Hereford's
New Zealand Simite and New Zealand short On are on there,
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and we know there are some gaps there, so we
are working to get the Angus pro balls On on
the south of Deven balls On and some other breeds.
And in that tool, you can basically say, right, oh,
I want a maternal bull, so click on a maternal button.
I want it from of this breed, and it will
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give you an index. And then you can also then
have a look at all the individual components of that
index and start moving sliders to describe essentially what's important
to you, and then it will come up with a
list of you know, which are the breeders and which
are the animals that most aligned to your to whatever
objective you put into there. So it's a really good
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tool for you to be just looking at and saying, well,
you know, am I going to the right Am I
driving up the right driveway? Or is there some other
driveways that I could be thinking about driving up as well? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Can buying a ball though be unnecessarily complicated?
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (22:20):
It can. And so that's why I keep on talking
about It's about focus, right, So being real clear about
what traits matter and what ones don't matter. And that
applies to data, but it also applies to phenotype as well,
and it's really important that we just focus on the
things that are, you know, that either make you money
or save you money, and we don't get distracted by
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the other things. And I always say, well, my suggestion
is that you know, in a catalog, you've got the
data there, I'd say, you know, work out the twenty
percent of balls in a sale catalog that best fit
on data, and then go and have a look at
those balls and knock out the ones that don't fit
on phenotype, because phenotype is important, right. There are attributes
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of phenotype that are really important, you know, such as
will the ball last? You know, has you got enough
serving capacity to get cows pregnant, et cetera, And so
that is important. But once you found the top twenty
percent of balls for you, not necessarily for others, for
someone else, but for you on data, and then you
knock out half of them maybe on phenotype, you're probably
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left with the target of you know, five or six
balls at their average at their average sale, and you
should be able to focus on those ones.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
So improve is pretty is proving popular amongst bull buyers.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Yeah, for sure, we're seeing good use, good use of stats.
It was out last year and you know it made
a bit of a splash last year, and you know
we've had to improve operating in the sheep side of
things for five or six years now, and you know
we're find out growing and growing. I think last year
for sheep, we think we had about nineteen thousand hits
on it, you know, and Bearing a Mind is only
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ten thousand sheep and beef farmers. And you're yelling, so yeah,
it's getting It is being used a lot by farmers,
and it's a useful tool. The other thing I would
say when when people go to a sailor is you know,
when you've got those balls picked out, the number one
ball often goes for really big money, and it might
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be above your budget. And that's the ball that has
it all. You know, it's got all the data, but
it's also got the pheno type and the overall package
and the looks and it's a pretty ball and all
that sort of thing. That ball off goes for a lot.
But if you look at your list, the number two
ball in terms of performance and suitability is often not
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far behind that number one ball, but it's a long
way behind in price. So you know, there is some
good buying out there in terms of if you can
focus on what you need and you don't have to
get the number one ball because the number two ball
is almost as good and probably you know, only two
thirds of the price. So that's that's another thing I
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think to bear in mind.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
With with this, and this is irrelevant considering the beef
markets on a high at the moment too.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and you know, long may it stay
that way. You know, there's a worldwide shortage of protein
as we all know, you know, things in the US,
which pretty much drives the worldwide beef price. You know,
they just can't get enough. They just can't get enough
beef there. And they've got a few of their issues
of their own in terms of screw worm. In Mexico
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is stopping to close the southern border and there's normally
about a moving cattle come across that border a year.
So yeah, things are going crazy over there and around
the world, and that's been reflected in the opportunity and
the prices that we're receiving. So, you know, I think
all things being equal, you know, there's there's a lot
of value in buying a good ball this year.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Jason Archer ahead of Genetics of Beef in that New Zealand.
Thanks for your time on the Muster, Please you Jason
Archer of Beef and their New Zealand. Click beeflamens in
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the end of the Hour of Nathan Burden.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Me.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Welcome back to the Muster. Isler Pringle joins us now
out of head shape. She was at twenty twenty five
of Targo's South and Totago Sheer Milker of the Year
along with her partner Hayden. She's involved with Nightcaps Young Farmers,
and she joins us once again. Good afternoon, Hey, how
are you going? Yeah? Pretty good? Hell things of you.
You're getting through the start of May pretty well?
Speaker 8 (26:47):
Yeah, that's definitely May anyway that the rains turned up
and the girls are slide down and we're about ready
to be done with the season two.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
When it gets to May, you're doing the grind of milking?
Are you just counting down the days until dry off
because you're over it? Or Is it a case of
its money coming in?
Speaker 8 (27:09):
Yeah, Oh, but it both andy, I mean yeah, like
I said, the girls slow down and we're about ready
for it to all be done as well, so but
you be're grateful for the milk coming in as well.
So yeah, looking forward to it, but yeah, there's still
quite a bit of work to be done before then.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I suppose when's dry off.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
Probably look at it the twenty fifth, twenty sixth somewhere there.
Just you sort of depends how these ground conditions hold on.
It's gotten pretty weety out their way, so yeah, it
all dependent. Really, you even know what Mother Nature's going
to throw you.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
So generally when you pick a date for dry off,
you don't tend to deviate.
Speaker 8 (27:53):
Oh we have in the past. Yeah, that's just sort
of because with the current farm owner and their contract
and stuff. So just making sure there's enough grass and
sitting themselves up the next year. So well, yeah, like
you said, while still getting a bit of milk in
the vet at the end of the season. So we'll
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just wait and see. Really, I don't know a few
few ordans to go with youring off a week early,
because it's got the pick itself real here so yeah,
all dependent. Every runs in the same boat, really.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Because under recently you speak to you certain people saying,
if you've got a date of mind, you stick to it.
You think your grasscover is going through the winter. Other
people are saying, well, if you've got the opportunity to
carry on with that and everything's in your favor, then continue.
Did you find anything that doesn't work out when you
change your date?
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (28:44):
Not really, Well you just have to be Yeah, you
have to think about the next season. That this time
of year as well, which is a juggling point, like
you know, you can push it if you want get
some more milk in the vet. But yeah, you also
have to think about the spring, and you know spring
hasn't been the best in the past few years, so
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I have to think about those covers and the left
of guy.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
So you said you've had quite a bit of rain there.
How's the growth been anyway?
Speaker 8 (29:14):
Oh, she's pretty slow. I'm not one hundred percent. I
don't know the complete figure.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
But.
Speaker 8 (29:19):
Yeah, it's just pretty slow. And there's a bit of
water out that way. So while we had a bit
of a flood or two or three weeks ago, now
sort of hasn't least and then yeah, this rains in
the past, last since the start of the week, well
probably Friday. It's sort of yeah, hasn't helped, been that
just like a lies flooding.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (29:42):
We were sort of the only ones that well and
he joked, sort of the only ones that got flooding.
So I don't know, must have been pretty localized.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Crazy how that happens. But I mean, microclimates exist all
around the province, and I remember especially up in Cattle
flat out of nowhere, the river's coming u up, You've
got his gold. But up country is a different story.
And did I twenty twenty when gor went on flood
alert back in February twenty twenty, and all of a sudden,
it was like twenty degrees outside. We're being told to
leave town.
Speaker 8 (30:12):
Yeah, the floods are a weird thing. It's just about
the location and how heavy at what point, And you know,
like when it's big catchman for a hilly catchment that
all of a sudden it's bloody, you know, filled up
the whole river.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
So yeah, so have you got extensive waterways around your farm?
When you say this occurred.
Speaker 8 (30:35):
Oh, we border the tea food stream and it merges
into the Chope Stream just on their on their property.
So yeah, one sort of north north side sort of
borders the northwest, I guess, borders rivers sort of what
(30:56):
it is.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
So for winter ring, do you take the girls off fun?
Speaker 8 (31:00):
Yeah, yeah, they're off so pretty local, which is good.
And yeah, it just gives us a wee bit of
a break, which is also nice.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
So when the girls are off the firm, they're doing
their winter grazing and the likes. What's the focus for
you guys? I suppose first and foremost you need to
reach out yourself. But then you just try and go
in and do a few in our names or.
Speaker 8 (31:20):
What's the go Yeah, pretty much just like you're just
you know, tiny out those jobs that have been sitting
there for a while and just yeah, we've got to
weave it. We want to go a few just hagging
over the rains. So you're just odd jobs and helping
out neighbors and friends and.
Speaker 7 (31:41):
Things like that.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
So that's quite a fun bit of a year. We
can do all those random things that you don't usually do.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
And then again it all starts at a couple of
months time. But I mean they're still a wee while
the way you've got to live for the prison.
Speaker 8 (31:54):
Yeah, it's just live it up in the main one
go to the pub.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Plenty of young farmers events happening by the sound of it.
Speaker 8 (32:04):
So that's good.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Weave are going on and you've got the boots on
for Big River again this year. Club Rugby, how's it fairing?
Their head? Dave later on the show used today of
course kluth is when fifty of coming up this weekend,
you've played quite a bit of Club Rugby now while
would you say it's some pretty good heart of what
you've sayen through a tago Southland?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (32:21):
Yeah, well yeah's it's a funny one that fluctuates all
the time, I reckon and for clubs like you'll get
a cohort of school leavers and I'll go to a
single club and then you've got you know, sort of
rotates around different clubs. So I don't know instept especially,
and that's what seems to happen on. Yeah, I still
(32:46):
think it's kind of the hard of the country immunity
and it'll be a shame it makes sense, So I
think it's I mean, it's definitely least than it used
to be. It's still it's still present, it's still there,
and you still have a modern community support around it.
So yeah, yeah, I hope it stays.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Two words community fabric. You can't you can't underestimate that.
Speaker 8 (33:13):
No, that's and it really is. Like, yeah, like if you'
move to a different community or a new community, it's
one way to sort of get into it pretty much
straight away, hasn't it meet people and start building those connections.
So yeah, it'd be a real shame if it if
it wasn't there, if they.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Weren't there, well said either, Hey, we'll let you carry
on all the best until the end of the milking
season and you enjoy the afternoon. It's good to chat.
Speaker 8 (33:38):
That's so easy, and they will kitchens on.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Either. Preme Girl based out of head Shape. Before you
wrap up, our resident Sporting Gury, Nathan Burden, you talk
about a sport. Nathan burdens our residence Sporting Guru joins
us once again. Good afternoon, Nathan, howse sings in the
(34:05):
big smoke.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
Yeah all good here, mates. Yet we're in the build
up now to the Ilt South and Sports Awards actually
during the twelfth so everything's sort of pointing in that
direction is going to be a great night again at
Ilt Stadium South And in a few weeks time, So
those ticket sales are going to be opened very soon,
so people can keep an eye up for that.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Jacob Duffy cleans up, doesn't he.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
I think Jacob Duffy will certainly be in the conversation.
I think having been the Aussie, the New Zealand Cricket
Player of the Year and broke pedals as which he
caught for most wickets in a calendar year, I think
you'd have to say.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
I think he's a good start of charts. Yeah, Graham
Henry Beck in the Ill Blacks as a selector, seventy
nine years.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
Young, seventy nine years young, a huge wealth of institutional
rugby knowledge. And I think even more than that, just
that institutional knowledge of how to bring groups of young
men together. I just I think it's a it's a
bit of a master stroke, to be honest, and and
it's you know, Dave Reenie's really not putting a foot
(35:15):
wrong at the moment, is he. Which you talk about
winning the off season, I think that's Dave any sort
of doing that at the moment.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Well, whenever you change your black coach all of a sudden,
you get the belief you're going to win the next
World Cup.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
Yeah, I guess everyone's everyone's got a set famous saying
that everyone's got a plan until they get punched in
the face. It's a it's a massive season coming up,
isn't it that That tour of South Africa is large,
a huge challenge And I was reading the other day
and it's only it's only a ten day gap between
the end of Super Rugby and the and the first
Test against France, So definitely a challenge for Dave Annie.
(35:51):
But yeah, I've liked, I've liked lots about what he's
been saying. Obviously, Graham Henry has been doing the media
around since he was announced as well, and you sort of,
I guess the common instead of being made it all,
it all rings pretty true. It sounds like a sort
of an attempt to return to, you know, the DNA
of all black rugby and we need it. You know,
it's been a it's been a tough couple of years,
(36:11):
so you know, it's exciting kinds.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
I think David Letter to going to the INNS Board.
He's vice president, very very astute acquisition.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Yeah, we're yeah talking about sort of grassroots rugby and
the Hintlein. You know, no one played harder than than
Crazy Letter did. He just an outstanding provincial man. So
he'll he'll, he'll ensure that the old provincial fires are
being considered that at the at the top, which is
which is great to see.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Now Regartding the Highland has he got the Chiefs this week?
Where are we yet with the Highlanders? Nathan? You put
this into context for us? Are you betting against them?
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Am I betting against them? They would be hard to
pick against the Chiefs. Against the Chiefs team, that's you know,
it's got there. They've got their site set on the
on the playoffs, I think mathematically obviously the Highlanders still
have a chance. But they've got a tough run home,
don't they are they rebuilding the next year. Every time
I don't back them, they win. Every time I do
(37:10):
back them, they lose. They're a frustrating team to follow
at the moment.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Now the Warriors, the wise Luke Metcalf's You've almost think
he's got the pet because he hasn't got his place
back because Tennor Boyd's played so well.
Speaker 5 (37:23):
Yeah, interesting so that the club of sort of let
him loose and said he can he can have a
scout around. You've got a player who on the news
last night there saying is on a million dollar contract,
which I probably don't know enough in terms of how
relevant that is. I'd imagine that's like a that's quite
a top.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Tier absolutely contract.
Speaker 5 (37:46):
So in that regards, you know, it's when you when
you get the big money, you've got to get the
big performances, don't you. So I guess there's a few
questions around around whether his heart's still there in terms
of the Warriors.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
The big years and rugby leagues circles. Though, Ivan Cleary
that jugg Alaud of a coach with the Penrith Panthers club.
He's finishing up at the end of next season, and
then all of a sudden they're talking about a Penrift
team being disestablished, which is arguably on the edge of
another dynasty.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
Yeah, I mean, and what a dynasty it's been so
far for Nral titles and a runner up finish in
the space of six years in what is arguably one
of the toughest sporting leagues in the world. It's been
a heck of a. It's been a heck of a
shift from Ivan Cleary, and you don't blame him for
(38:35):
wanting to sort of step aside at fifty five. I think,
especially in a competition with a salary cap like that,
it's probably one thing to be able to pull a
team together for one or two years with your stars,
but being able to shuffle your players around and operate
under that cap and still being able to perform over
over five and six years is just an outstanding effort. Also,
(38:55):
think about that the father son dynamic, which is a
something you see a bit in sport, but you probably
see it fail more than it succeeds. It's definitely succeeded
at the Panthers.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Southern Steel top of the table away to the Pulse
on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
Yeah, and hopefully they can just keep rolling on.
Speaker 7 (39:12):
Eh.
Speaker 5 (39:12):
They have been playing some really good solid neatball better
than solid too, that's probably that's probably understating it. If anything,
that probably just one quarter a game that they aren't
quite nailing, so they know they may have to do
that against the Pulse. If these are two teams who
are probably really battling out, you know they'll be teams
(39:35):
that are both in the mix for the for the playoffs.
So a win in this game and what is a
pretty short competition will go a long way to seeing
that the steel sort of get back up where we've
wanted them to be for it for a number of years,
and that's.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Back in the playoffs and the NBL the Sharks. They've
got four games and seventeen days. It's not an easy schedule,
but going by what I say I've put in the
Tribune in this morning, very good right up. Concidentally, they're
all for it, so looking forward to seeing how they
go out and go over the next week or two.
Speaker 5 (40:03):
Yeah, and they're a team that are performing really well.
Is it's a massive challenge. They have been playing some
of the majority of teams who are below them in
the leagues, so now they get an opportunity to really
test themselves against the sort of teams who are also
going to be in the mix in terms of the
playoff conversation. So yeah, it is a big It's a
big sixteen or seventeen days starting starting tonight against the
(40:28):
tabletopping to Atara. So but yeah, they are going really
well and they've got some talent still to come into
that team, so hopefully they can keep it rolling as well.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
The Wellington Phoenix women. They're in the first final for
New Zealand footballing franchise. But we talk about the story
of Bev Prices. When the Canadian coach you got done
for spying ultimately comes over to the next and does
great things.
Speaker 5 (40:51):
What a redemption story a like Yes, serves a one
year's one year ban from the game over drowing gate
while with the Canadian team. Never any question about her
ability as a coach. She's been able to do it
all over the world and had a huge amount of success.
So it was it was an incredible get for the
(41:13):
Phoenix in great timing that they just happened to be
scouting for a coach at about the time that she
was coming off that band. I guess it's a few
question marks around sort of. I guess you know, whether
whether someone should walk back into such a high profile
job after after an incident like that, But I guess
you know, you serve your time, and sports one of
(41:34):
those things where you do you know, you get another
opportunity and she's grabbed that and that I think from
from what i've I've seen the vision from after games
and things like that, like the players definitely believe had
belief in I want to play for her and that
sort of thing. So it's been a it's been a
really interesting story.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Just finally as well a shout out to Right Sposh
Rugby club on social media during the week after players
didn't go so well for well for the team last week.
But club Rugby, we need to keep these teams going
as long as we can.
Speaker 5 (42:06):
Yeah, it's a what's a it's a famous old club,
rights Bosh. Yeah, isn't it home of home of Lister Rutledge?
And it's not easy at the airs that the I
think of my old my old club country pirates very
much a distant memory. Once once the clubs, once those
clubs are gone, they are gone. And but they you know,
(42:28):
they're such a hub for the community at their best
that you're right, it's it is sad to see them go.
And and hopefully there's enough sort of will and will
in the way to keep Rights Bush going for as
long as it needs to.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
Absolutely good on your naith, lovely thanks mate, laugh out
loud with ag proud because life on the land can
be a laughing matter. Brought to us by sheer well
Danta working to help the livestock farmer. My wife told
me to take the spider about a set of smesh
shing it with the paper, went out for a few drinks.
(43:02):
He's a nice guy. Turns out he's a web designer.
Well that's an oldy body guddy and that's us over
and done with for the afternoon. I mean, he mure.
The muster's brought to you by Peterson Llocks podcasters going
up shortly enjoyed the afternoon catching amra hey, well i'll
rual heavy golaron what did he want to get for?
Thanks to PGG Wrights and it is time for stock
(43:24):
selling action. It occurred at the Charlton sale yards this morning.
Dave Morrison's on the line to give a rundown on prices.
Tagle good afternoon, how do we fear?
Speaker 4 (43:32):
Anon? And yeah, look just another good good Vidium size
had just out of the prime lambs, the best of
the prime lambs, big big heavy lambs to fifty to
two sixty, just.
Speaker 9 (43:44):
The lighter prime lands. It's probably should probably should be
over the stores.
Speaker 5 (43:49):
What did you think?
Speaker 9 (43:50):
There was sort of one fifty seventy and the rams
quite quite a number of rams from a tri again
and they are ready from from seventy to had.
Speaker 4 (43:59):
Twenty dollars into the U section small.
Speaker 9 (44:02):
Other of us there any olds and the U numbers
trying to run out the best big heavy, monster heavy
years two twenty to two thirty mediums anyway from one
sixty one seventy five with the light of the dues
still has spilling ways of one hundred and ten hundred
and twenty hundred and twenty five dollars. Hundred and fifty
dollars tall lambs. Yeah, good times you having stall lamps
there today. Yeah, med a pretty good demand once again,
(44:26):
probably four or five interesting parties and they say buying
O bidding best stall lamps for one seventy five to
one nineteen. It's good, it's very good. Lands Ford lambs,
many a plants still one fifteen five to one sixteen,
one sixty five with the spot lighter of the lambs
selling pretty well anyway from perhaps one hundred and ten
two hundred and thirty dollars, and that wraps it up
(44:48):
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