October 13, 2025 • 45 mins
Andy Muir talks to Mark de Lautour, Graham Butcher, Grant McMaster, Daryl Moyles, Isla Pringle and Sam Riley.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the muster on HOKANII I
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On an overcast afternoon here and Gore. Sunshine is like
trying to peek through on the hills as a look
out there on the vistas around the edge of town.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
But yeah, there we go.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
We spot of it coming through there. We'll talk weather shortly,
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breezy northerlies nor westers seven and sixteen. Thursday morning showers
of westerlies forming six and thirteen.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Friday seems to be the pick of it. Really cloudy.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
You were breezing northwesterlies nine and nineteen and Saturday showers
of northwesterlies forming five and fifteen. So temper just a
hand northern south of nine point five, Riveton eleven, tian
now ten point six, Tetaroha ten point three went to
nine point six at Woodland's ten point three. Mark Delatoyt,
chief Executive of Open Country, starts the muster this afternoon,
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followed up by Graham Butcher Funk consultant looking at feed levels,
heading through a season where it's at a premium at
the moment, and just trying to understand how your budgeting
should operate.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Grant as Ars McMasters on.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
The program of course, out of closper in Station. Followed
up by Daryl Moyles or Saturn, Dan Stock Foods and
Eyler Pringle of Nightcaps Young Farmers. Sam Riley from PGG
Rights and gives us a rundown on the land prices
and the stock prices that matter in general from a
LOUNGEVI Sale Yards of course, thanks to a team PGG writes,
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and we'll start the hour next with Mark de Latour.
This is the muster until two o'clock thanks to Peter's genetics.
Mark de Latours, chief executive of Open Country, and joins
(02:23):
us this afternoon on the muster as we catch up
with the team.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Mark, good afternoon, Welcome once again.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Yeah, good afternoon Andy, there was a very summary chirpy
song and it's I'm looking at the window here and
that it's not as sunny as that song make you feel.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Down here in the South has been weat but in
general in the North Island, how's the situation been.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Mark's pretty wet, same again, you know, it hasn't been
too bad, but there there's certainly a bit more sunshine,
you know, it would have been ideal. But that said,
there's lots of feed around. It's warmed up nicely and
and you know, to be honest, right through the entry
milk flows are very very strong. So it's been a
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great start of the season.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
How would they compare to say, twelve months ago with
the big weed as we called it.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, you know for Southland, you know, we're up two
or three percent on we were at the same time
last year, so certainly not as bad as last year,
you know it. It'd be nice to see, like I
see it, a bit more sunshine coming now, a bit
warmer temperatures. But we are up up in the North
Island here, we're we're well up. It's you know, seven
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eight percent for most of the farmers. We're in the
middle of our farmer supply meeting Rochow at the moment,
and then we've completed Wykadow down in Taranaki Manaua two
this week and then south from the following week, so
certainly comes with see some really good productivity.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Of so farmer sentiment at the moment, how would you
read it?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Pretty positive? Pretty positive? Yeah, I think you know, I
was explaining that without being the profit of doom, and
in no way am I doing that, But I have
suggested that product prices are probably high now for the season,
and our forecast show that they're going to tack back
a little bit through the season. So it's great to
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have the production right now so strong because prices are high,
so it looks good for an overall return for the season.
But it's you know what, we would be ashamed to
see some of these prices being missed out of volumes
we went there. So I start for the season and
farm pretty happy.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
When are you expecting peak milk flow?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Well, Wyketo, why Kadow? It is right now as we speak,
it's it's peaked and this rain might actually slow it
down a little bit, so I would say, you know,
probably over the weekend. Why Kato hit its peak central
all time turnicking on too. If we're not there now,
it certainly will be in the next couple of days.
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Probably still a good to three weeks away.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Now. The GDT auctions, we've seen a few well let
be on us for slight declines over the last six
or eight weeks. Mark, are you concerned if we see
too many more of these that it's going to change
the situation?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
As you alluded to briefly before.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, I guess you know a lot of that is
pig milk, you know, buyers around the world. No, but
New Zealand's got a lot of milk at this time
of the year and salespeople need to keep it moving.
But I wouldn't say concerned. Like I said, we're forecasting
the prices to come off a little little bit. Just globally,
there is a lot of pro action around and whilst
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demand is steady, I don't see any anything that's going
to trigger a crash. But you know, with this volume increasing,
I think we'll just see a slow softening of the
of the prices through the season. It'll still be a.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Great a slow softening of prices though it is still
pretty good compared to what we could have.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Right, that's right, that's right. I mean, that's the thing
about commodity, isn't it any I mean, when they're they're high,
like down now and no one can even see a
good justification for them coming down. And yet a couple
of years ago, if you look at seven eight bucks,
no one could see the price is ever returning. So
there's a strong human mentality aspect of commodity. A process
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we do know is that they do lift up and
drop down with supply and demand, and most people can
deal with with a slow movement. It's it's when it
drops off a cliff that that everyone gets caught out.
So I don't think there's anything to suggest it's.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Going to happen open countries purchase in the Tara Valley milk.
It happened well, a couple of months ago. Now we've talked,
I've talked to you since then. But of course the
extr resistion as well as of Maracas. So a couple
of prudent investments is fair to say.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah, And I spent a bit of time talking for
the funders and you know, for all your listeners, you know,
not not this week, but next week when we're down
in southern Otago on it's come along and we'll explain
those a little bit more. But no, that we're very
very happy with them. They're they're they're certainly the Matara
Valley purchase that that actually doesn't complete till the end
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of this month, so you know where she haven't done
anything there yet. But we're very much looking forward to
having the Matara Valley team join us, so that will
happen that he does. But meat Aca where we're in
the midst of getting arms around that business now and
and they're very very full and very very busy. So
that's that's a that's a really good addition to the
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to the group already, so lots of milk collection efficiencies
to be had, and you know, I think, well, once
we can take a breath, as when we got off peak,
then it'll be good to really start tweaking tweaking the dolls.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
How suppliers reacted to the news of those two acquisitions very.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Positive, very positive. In general. I don't think that we've
had any great need sent most most people understand and
this industry, you know, this industry, you just have to
have scale. The scale allows you to have your Scots
your own heads spread and competitive and it also is
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a risk play. So if you look at meat Acre
for example, you know we've got we've got two sites
and what the cato We now have meat Acre and
Tapa and then Monnilia a bit further south. So what
it does allow us to do is, you know, if
one of our plants have a bit of a whoopsie,
or certainly on the shoulders of the season the milk
flows are coming up and dropping down, you do get
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to keep some of the sites fully optimized. And so
from a point of view, with some comfort, that scale
gives you efficiency and it also gives you risk mitigation.
So when things happen as they always do, you've got
some options.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
So you're still on the lookout for new supplies down
here in the South given the acquisition of MBM.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah, absolutely we are. Absolutely we are so where you know,
like I said, come end of this month, completion will
be done on that deal and we're definitely on the
lookout for new milk. We're excited about what we can
do with that site. You know, we think there's a
there's an opportunity upscale there. We're going to throw some
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more capital down south and you know, extending our products
a little bit down there. So I'm always looking to
to get some more supply. And like I always say,
even if even if a farmer hasn't made up their
mind and they just want to have a chat, have
have a cup of tea and look the options, We're
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happy to do that as well. So just just meeting
with us and having a chat doesn't mean you have
to come over, but always happy to have that chat.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Mark Della to a chief executive of Open Country. Always
appreciate your time on the muster.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
No from any go.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Well the musters on the farm broad to you by
Southland District Council working together for a better Southland.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Graham Butcher, fun Consultant, joins us once again on this
overcast afternoon down in the south.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Graham, how are you.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
I'm very good in yourself, Andy.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
You're not too bad. Well acknowledge the weather in the
situation is not as bad as this time last year,
but it's not a big change.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Really.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Well, I've had clients ring up. They're getting into tractive
work now, so you probably wouldn't have done this last year. Yeah,
So yeah, I mean that's what it is. We just
have to manage your way through it.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
And that's the subject for today. We're talking past you covers.
How are people coping At the moment. They're getting through
pretty good.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Oh, I think at the stage covers are probably starting
to pick up a wee bit so all temperatures are rising,
so light at the end of the tunnel maybe, but
it's been a difficult spring. I probably talked about this
several times this season and probably previous years as well,
just talking about pasture covers and body condition score use.
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I came across some relatively old data from twenty years ago,
which in my book that's not that long ago, put
out by Meat and Walk, So that'll give you an
idea of how old it is. It's looking at peak
in takes of use and pasture covers that aren't required
to get there. We know this information shows that it's
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seventeen if you want your peak and take if you
use so they get a good lactation. It peaks at
around seventeen hundred k'sa dry matter, so once you get
to seventeen hundred cover the US can't actually eat a
hell of a lot more So, it's a bit of
a bit like grass growth. Really, once you get down
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to eleven hundred, there's no way can they have the
intake that they need to produce a good lactation. Between
eleven hundred and thirteen hundreds of very sharp increase in
the intake of the U and between thirteen hundred and
seventeen hundred the intake slows down, but it peaks at
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about seventeen hundred, which raises a pretty good question. Actually,
is that the pasta covers we're getting in the spring
here probably nowhere near what's required to have a peak
you intake and a peak you intake. You need that
to get good lactation underway. And the lactation is really
critical because now it is the easiest time to put
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life weight gain on lambs. There's no question about it.
Once you hit weaning, once you hit the higher temperatures
in summer, pasta quality drops off. They haven't got the milk.
Your potential to grow those lambs is a lot less.
So we've got to make hay. Why the sunshines at
this time of the year from now until weaning is
absolutely critical. So to get those higher pasta covers in
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the spring, I mean, you can sit down and do
the arithmetic and who winter feed budget and determine first
to may you need that sort of cover, so you
come out of the winter that cover that we need
a bit tied up to with how much brassca crop
you grow. You can take a lot of stock off
our pasture let it grow over the winter if you've
got plenty of brassacre, So that's an important thing to do,
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managing or determining first to make cover more particularly managing
your feed over the winter, so you come out in
the spring with a decent cover, So that's important. The
other bit of information that came across from the Meat
and All again from twenty years ago is the impact
of body condition score on milk yield and use. Quite interesting.
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The difference between our body conditions score three and two
is actually quite a significant amount of milk, particularly if
your feed conditions are not where they need to be.
So the way I sort of look at it, you
can do your feed budget first to make covers, allocate
your feed over the winter, come out of the spring.
You can budget and plan to do that, but often
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things go astray. You might lose a paddic of swedes,
or if something goes wrong or you have a dry
autumn and you don't get the growth you're expected, so
we need plan to have that first to make cover.
Bit often it's things go astray, that's just farming they do.
So in that situation where you can expect things going astray,
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your body condition score that you will actually buffer that
lactation in the spring. So really important to do your
planning for better covers in the spring and have your
use in good condition coming out of the winter is
particularly important. But so lactation actually kicks off and your
lambs go quicker and you have higher winning drafts, and
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that takes pressure off in the summer and it's more
easy to get a good first to make cover, or
you plug in some store lambs or whatever. So all
those things body conditions, core pasture covers in the spring
are all under your control.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
This is interesting as well. We talk with us a
couple of weeks. Now we'll just go back to the
wall price and the way that there has been a
second big sale out of christ Church last week was
almost as positive as a fortnight ago. Did you catch
up on that?
Speaker 5 (15:09):
I haven't caught up on that one.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Now I think there out of christ Church, right, that's
just yesterday or that was last week, late last week.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Yeah, that's good to see. I must look up the
graph and hopefully that we check up. We saw last
time it carries on?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah, look, I think it was still another thirty cents
or something on the sale compared to the forty odds.
So good, Yeah, yeah, pretty much. Hey, when you're talking
to your clients as well, just farmers in general, when
it comes to six months sharing, given that the price
is coming up when it comes to it's an interesting
thought process around this, right, do you go to eighth
month sharing to do six month or do you go
to twelfth month because it becomes just a sustainability thing
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price wise, But Joinity, your clients, how do they look
at it?
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Horses for courses, I think eight months sharing you don't
see a lot of it these days, a little bit
more difficult to manage. So the twelve months sharing cost wise,
it's pretty good. Or quality wise probably not so good.
Animal health wise, probably not so good, which is why
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you probably see more two times sharing in a year
because people that do that put a great amount of
store on animal health issues, casting a sheep in the spring,
all that sort of stuff, and that's important with a
bull price coming up, it probably becomes a bit more
economic to do double sharing in a year, But in
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terms of your net woole income it's not particularly good.
But that's I've set against animal health issues and what
have you. So farmers that do it put a great
deal of store in that. So I think it's horses
for courses. Really, if you've got hell country difficult to
get around, if you're losing cast us, the two months
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sharing might be on for you.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Have we talked about this a while ago, Just to
wrap up to you talked about a three and twenty
four lambing. Anybody taking that on? Are you looking for
somebody to volunteer?
Speaker 5 (17:10):
I think when you look at it technically, it's really interesting.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
In Southland that's going to be the thing getting someone
to Lamb and May and Southland.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
I think it is. But you have to reimagine what
your whole sheep farm looks like.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Absolutely always food for thought. Graham Butcher, thanks for your time.
As always, Thank you, Graham Butcher Farm Consultant. You're listening
to the muster up next way to close bar And Station.
We talked to Grant Disaster McMaster away to close ber
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And Station on the edges of Lake Wakatapu. Grant does
as McMaster joins us once again thanks to the team
at Abbey Rural Grant.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Good afternoon, Good afternoon, Andy, Good afternoon, everybody.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Weather conditions in the basin. You're not having to water
ski around the farm or anything ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
I wouldn't say the tracks hard and fast, but thirty
five miles of rain since we spoke last week. Snow
on Saturday or Sunday, whatever day it was down quite
halfway down the mountains around the lake. It sort of
went the next day. Hard frost this morning, but yeah,
it's a barmi seven degrees today that turns out with
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a bit of cool bree so, yeah, not as much
rain as we've had, but things are still pre damned.
Although things are looking quite good as in the place
is looking reasonably green. There's a green tins coming through
the hill and on the flats, but there's not a
lot of well, there is a lot of grass, but
as Frank Pompson would have said, it's not very high.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Just frustration. They're getting frost, heavy frost. That's time of you.
We have one last week here in Gold but that
was only one.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Yeah, well that's we've got a couple. Well that's the
only one we've had this week for that. But it's
you know, it's just one of those things that you know,
we've got an orts here I planted about fifteen years
ago and and you know, blossoms out there now, but
I haven't that look at this morning where they'll probably
to tailor a few apricots and what have you. We
never seem to get much fruit off it because we
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get these late bloody frosts and yeah, way go. So no,
not easy.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
You haven't got the spuds in yet.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
I've got them in the cupboard and they'll be staying
there for a while. So yeah, I can't actually give
you the ground temperature because I was doing a scientific
experiment the other night up at one of my neighbors places.
He's out from Australia and we were having a couple
of ales and he'd just sold a little bit of rawn,
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so I went and got my my soil test are
out and he also had two that he uses for
cooking ops and turkeys or whatever. So we're we're doing
an experiment there to see if there's any difference, and
to be fair, the little one you get from the
from the supermarket is just as good as the one
I got from Balance. So that was all very good.
But in the meantime on the way home, I've lost
it somewhere, So I can't give you a soul camp today.
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But his lawn the other night with thirteen degrees, well
that's what we thought it did.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
So what you were saying is get your thermometer from
after doing the mutton guard, stick it in the lawn.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
It'll be as.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
Accurate, exactly, exactly as always. Give a time to turn
call down a bit.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yeah you know want eighty four degrees coming through?
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Do you?
Speaker 7 (20:33):
You know?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Lamming obviously just getting underway.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Yeah, Lambing is getting underway now with sort of gears
and I'm just sneaking around the place at the moment.
It is just this with the rain of heaters. The
few the flat pettis out by mort Blake have got
you know, tussocks on them, and it's a great, great
area for you to get cast. And even though these
piran does are easy care, I've got I've just picked
up a couple this morning from my vantage point. So yeah,
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know the lambs are starting to pop out now and
the cars are going, carve is going all right, and yeah,
there's only one of the hi has left over the
Hell block to do. So it's certainly the grass is
over theretown. It's a lot better on the on the
Hogit block than it is here for for orevious reasons.
It's not getting as much rain. And you know we're
on a bit of rotation over there. So they all
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and all, it's if we just get this. Since we
spoke last week, there's been you know, there's been quite
a change around and what grass we do have, So
a couple of paddocks by the wall shed, I'm just
gonna put some cows and calves and now I've got
them sort of ready to go across. It's tsking into
that stage where in a couple of paddics not so
many us in it. So yeah, if that continues, it
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all well and good.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Now we talked a.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
While ago ground about loose dogs being on the prow
unfortunately attacking yous and it seems as though this continued
in your nick of the woods.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Yeah you want a production time. Everything's going to be
all right. I hope it will be, but I've got
a bad feeling it's not so. Yeah, we spoke last well,
you know back in April where those two d's got
tidied up about fifteen of them. And before that in
February there was nine news and here around now the
morning there's another sixteen ewes just slaughtered. So's it's mental
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health week. I tell you what a bloody near needed.
I think it's a however, thing to have. You know,
we have lots of things to test you and farming.
It's all to do with the weather, isn't it. In
markets and the sort of things that are out of
our control on you know, you'd think dog a dog
attack is you know once twice, third time it's not lucky,
and just not to be able to nail them as
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pretty difficult. So it's one thing finding those newes and
then you go to spend the rest of the morning
picking them up and then cutting a few throats that
these dogs has just been playing with and that's what
they do. So anyway, when we had that previous and
these are the same dogs, we know where they're coming from,
we know when they're off, but just haven't been able
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to line them up. It's a pretty big area and
it's at different all different times of Junior at night.
So last time back in April when the when the
Animal Control came out, they took come. They said, oh,
we'll get some DNA kits boarded for if this happens again.
And I said, well, it's not if it happened, it's
when it's happened, when it happens. So yeah, best you
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get them, because I said, you know, January now, and
I said, it'll keep continuing as long long as those
dogs get out. So anyway, sure enough I gave them
ring on whatever morning it was, and they bought the
kits out. And however we had been a bit of rain,
which isn't good. But anyway, got the examples and they'll
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send away. But I spoke to carry that night, who
runs the operation, and she said, well, unfortunately, she said,
the way the law is, we can't actually because we
haven't seen those dogs. You know, you know, we know
they're doing it, we know they're off. Because we can't
haven't seen those dogs, and you're probably go back and
these we haven't got the power to go on to
the DNA tests. Well that's about as much use as
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an Asclona motivate, isn't it. But again It's just one
of those things that's every you read about it in
the in the in the papers, and you said on
the news the number of dog attacks on well sheep,
but mainly mainly people are you know, in the cities
and while wherever it's people have no there's no accountability
for those people. And you know there's dogs that the
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pound have gotten and you know they know they've gotten
the child, but they can't put them down because these
people go to court so and you know before the court,
so there's no accountability. It's the old thing. You know,
the bloody the good guys are doing the best and
you know there's no backup. So and I think as
as we know that as the town moves into the country,
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and Queenstown's a classic example of that, you know that's
more prevalent. And but the manners of these dogs or
just jet dogs in general with people. You know, you
read about them going to dog parks and the dogs
having fights and you out left them off leads, and
you know, it just starts at the training that most
of the people have got dogs, shouldn't bloody have them?
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And you know you go to a dog trial and
there's a you know in New Zealand, there's a thousand dogs.
There's never a fight and it's good they're broken and well,
I'm maned. I imagine the same at Crufts and those
agility shows. You know, those people are you know, they
know what they're dogs when they train them. So it's
bloody and excusable. But that's the way it is, and
that's what we're you know, that's what we're finding against
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at the moment.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
And these dogs.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
As far as micro shipping everything else, that's probably not
on the agenda for the owners either, unfortunately.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
No.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
And you know I did speak to the owner this
time and discussed it and what have you, and you know,
I offered a couple of solutions and that you know
with regarding putting them down, and said I pay for
it and actually pay him for being able to do
have that privilege. But he's he's declined that. But you
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know knows they're doing it and and you know I've
seen that on the on the WhatsApp thing. We'll send
out to all those people up there. You know, you
see what they've done, but yeah, not doing anything about it,
so that you know, frustrating and crawl and you know,
reason expensive it's probably about fifteen grand so far.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
So it's a bit like feeding strawberry to a peg,
isn't it.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
It's all about accountability, Grant, always appreciate your time. Here's
hoping you get a decent outcome.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Oh well, well yes, you never know, but I'm not hopeful.
But you know, to all those people out there that
may be listening that have got dogs, for christ sake,
keep them under control, know where they are, and you know,
we wouldn't have the situation. And the other thing is,
you know, these dogs are a different breed and they
once I've got the taste of that, as I said
to the guy that owns them, they will not stop
until you know they're eighty.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
So so to thought, grab a glass or at close
for in station with some message as well they're regarding dogs.
Thanks of course, Abby Rural. We catch up the ground
every week. Daryl Moyles is up next sagean dan Stock
Food Welcome back to the muster on Hakanui. Next we
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catch up with Daryl Moyles out of Sergeant dan Stock
Foods across the road here from Hakkanui HQ. Here in
Gore remembering.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
And Charlie the chocolate factory.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Augustus Gloop fell into a river of chocolate milk while I,
who was living in Gore, he'd be wishing he fell
into a vet of molessers that is coming out that
aroma just entrenching the main street of Gore as you
drive through, and more often than I you will get
the woof of musley as well. Daryl Moyles, good afternoon.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
Yeah, good afternoon. It's another good intro. Are you there's
a bit of molassis. We'll use the trucks here pulling
up the tanks. Now we're using around. I think he's
delivering twenty five ton every six or seven days, so
we use a orgin a molesis.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Yet it's a fair hunk of it.
Speaker 7 (27:58):
Yeah, well it goes into most feeds, so it's a
small portion, and some feeds in quite a high rate
in others, so it's just a necessity. It's one of
the key ingredients we use.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Have you ever taken at home and put it on
your week books?
Speaker 7 (28:10):
No? Not recently. No. For one, I don't even feet picks,
and I don't think I'll put my lessus on it.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
But well you hear about my lessons from days gone past,
not like a super food, but just being part of
the diet. I mean, yes, it's different times now and
certainly going into stock food, but back in the day,
different era.
Speaker 7 (28:28):
Yeah, totally. Yeah, I do know that some of the
old school ones. I've talked about molasses here, but we
use feed great of course, which is slightly watered down
from the old black strap, which is like freakil and
doesn't run unless it's warm. So what we use is
a wee bit different to what you'd probably imagine.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah, i'd imagine. So, now, how's everything been across the
road there? It sounds like you've been like rets up
a drain pipe, going furiously.
Speaker 7 (28:49):
Oh, this is their peak season, so I'd be concerned
if we weren't. We're going furiously. No, we weren't, said
this Sunday this week, last week, sort of pretty much
thirteen air days from six through or seven o'clock ever
day at the minimum, and then a wee bit more
if we need to. So there's a bit of feed
going through, but that's just the nature of the business.
This is clearly at peak season right through with in
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the Novemberrock Covia November are this month by a long way.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
So how much busy you a production be at the moment?
Say so what, I don't know?
Speaker 9 (29:18):
Maybe for example, yeah, what a double you know, we'll
put out last to two and a half thousand tons
this month daryan carf feed.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
So two and a half to three thousand ton all
going well, and in a normal month we're producing around
fifteen hundred ton calf pellets.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
That's the big thing at the moment, calf pellets. That
is you've got a pro amino calf pellets as well?
Is there an amino pro What's.
Speaker 7 (29:48):
That's their new racing model. So that's what Nello has
developed following some research that come out of Cornell University
in the US a few years ago. So we've had
it on trial for two or three years with some
very good car for it was just of gord but
we've least released that to the market and the Mino
pros going very very well. It's just eded amino acids,
so it's still really good high quality coffee, not starch,
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energy and protein which is what cars need. But we'll
just edited amino acids to make them grow faster and
getting onto grass and the room and developed quicker than
would normally.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Be especially at the moment, to fade just a little
bit behind what a lot for what a lot of
people would like. So obviously this is where supplement can plays.
Speaker 9 (30:29):
It's wrong, right, yeah.
Speaker 7 (30:31):
Well, I mean, no one thought we'd get a year
like last year, but unfortunately it's not a lot better.
So there's not a lot of feed around it. It's coming,
but yeah, most people don't have a surplace at the stage.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
It's like Christmas. It will appear one day.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
We had the odd ties with some nice weather, but
they seem to disappear. We get more rain. But now
the grass is still coming in most guards girls and
milking pretty well so and the cars are growing really well,
especially the ones on them. No approach, So there you go.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Chicken feed as well.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Now you've got quite a few people coming to you
for whatever reason. I think since lockdown, everybody trying to
get their own egg production. So that's quite a big
issue for you guys as well. Not a big issue,
it's a great issue actually getting the chicken feed out
there for people because there's so many of the done
things now right.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
Absolutely, there's a lot of sort of free range people
that have got two or three hundred or five hundred
one thousand, so and we do a big bolt bag
to chicken feed, like one done bags and half tone bags,
which the semi commercial guys really like. So that is
just growing month on month a month pretend to sell
more than a month prior, which surprises me. And when
we're really stretched toward calf and terry. It's a bit
of a mission to keep everybody happy, but that's just
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what we do. So yeah, Chicken's going great down to
the moment.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
As far as snail feed as well, this is something
we learned last time. You actually produce snail feed. Obviously
it's not as a big a saler because snails are
smaller animals. You're not sure what the stocking rate is
per snail either for a per hectare has such so
I won't put those figures on you today, but this
is just fascinating. How are you thinking after our last
chat about snail production in New Zealand.
Speaker 7 (32:05):
Yeah, well there's a crowd and es Central a Target
that are doing snales i think for the Queenstown restaurant
market and we're doing turndred kilos at a time for them. Now.
Special feed netally developed a slightly different formulation than the
last lot. But apparently it's going well. But I'm not
one hundred percent sure on what feed right there on.
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But that's a new one for us, and I never
thought we'd get into snail fooed. But there's not many
classes of stock we can't cater for any Do.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
You do peag food? Do you do pig food at all?
Speaker 7 (32:34):
Yes, of course we do pig field. We do quite
a bit of pig feed. But again there's no big
commercial figueries down here really, so it's just that the
backyard pigs were really feeding at the moment.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah, because peggery wise, sure malloy might correspondent based out
of Sheffield. I don't think there's anything as in production
wise anyway on the same scale. Want to tag a
south one, No, not that I'm.
Speaker 7 (32:55):
Aware of, or not that we're supplying foot that way here. Thanks,
probably one of our smaller lines in the whole. We
would do, you know, ten times or fifteen times more
chicken than pigs. So that'll give you an idea.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Right, There's docks and NPC to wrap up because you
enjoy your code. The Targo Bay have plenty Kennedy Hawks Bay,
the NPC semis. Who are you wanting to win and
who do you think will win?
Speaker 7 (33:17):
Well, I mean we have to support a Targo. There's
a couple of of course, good gold Boy and they're
kicking the goals. But I thought that a Target game
last week was bloody awesome. If I can say that
on the radio, you just did and Kim Millers and
Kim Miller's kick was fantastic. So I'd love to see
a Togo win. And I'm not too worried about the
other other semi. I know Canterbury's in the South Island.
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Good to see the South Island final, but I have
to see what happens. But as lot as a Targo plenty,
I'll be pretty happy.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Yeah, I have the same I want to Targer to win.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
If they have plenty of where to come up trumps,
I'll be going for them over Kennarbary or Hawks Bay.
Afford your respect, but Hawks Bays aside, that's kind of
gone under the Raider and Kennerbury last week. Counties. Good
to see the Staggs play County in the form when
they did, because they just obviously got them in the
right frame of mind for the rest of the season.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
Yeah, I meaning on this game, like they were winning
the whole whole game, and I actually thought I was
actually supporting them. I thought it would have been good
to see them beating Kenbury. But Kenry is pretty tough
in that last ten minutes and with the extra time.
But Canry always come right at the end, So the
pretty tough side to beat. But I I mean, I
would like to see Hawksbay beat them. They'll be something
interesting for the season.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Just good to see a Tiger Rugby have a bit
of a renaissance too.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Considering the last couple of years they haven't really exowed
as sash but it sounds as though all this talent
they've had locally has started to work for them. But
they've kept the key of the squad together. I think
this for South and struggles. It's keeping the core of
the side for the next year. We had that many
turnovers this year, so you just got to give cutos
to a Tago. It's a real throwback to ninety eight
when the last one the NPC.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
Ye know, I think to Tager played a really good
start too. I mean they scored some really good tries.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
You know.
Speaker 7 (34:55):
Well, I bought out attacking team now I enjoy watching
them play, so yeah, good luck them.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
So Daryl Darrelf, somebody wants to get in touch with
Sergeant dan Stock Foods talk supplement requirements. How do they
get in touch?
Speaker 7 (35:07):
Just one hundred number which hundred? Sgt d A m Good.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
On your Darrell, Always appreciate your time. Thank you, Darryl Miles,
the Sergeant dan Stock Foods, Augusta Scoop, Augusta Scoop, the
big fat inco and poop. The line from back in
the day before we wrap up, Eila Prangle from Thorbury
Young Farmers.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
You're listening to the mustard.
Speaker 6 (35:38):
And ever we will be.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Eyler Prangle is chair of Nightcaps Young Farmers and joins
us next on the muster and our young Farmers wrap
up for the week.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Isler, how are you good?
Speaker 8 (35:49):
Thanks? Andy?
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Are you can't really complain?
Speaker 1 (35:52):
The season has been a little bit, if we since
we spoke to you last time five or six weeks ago,
but it's always a pack of max of southern weather, right.
Speaker 8 (36:00):
Yep, you can't, you can't take it. It's all part
of being a farmer.
Speaker 6 (36:03):
Really.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Now you're based at headshoked, you're getting through the season.
Speaker 8 (36:06):
Okay, there yep, yep, no chipping away. It's like better
than last spring. So I think there's three or finishing
their carving. So grass is just about the blasphole from
sure of it.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Yeah, here's hoping now, night Caps young farmers. Of course
your chair there. We spoke to you last time and
it was really interesting you were talking about the prominence
of being upfront in a leadership role as such. Now
within the Nightcaps club, what's been going on lately?
Speaker 8 (36:38):
Oh, you know, we have been just knuckling down and
getting through that carving and lemming season. But social sports
are just starting up. So we play Social Netball on
a Thursday night in winter, and we've got a Social
Touch team starts next week and were playing Drummond on
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a Monday night, so that's all cracking off. We did
a farm tour around the Tulip Horizon's Tuelip sectory that
was pretty awesome, pretty eye opening to be honest. And
Districts is this coming weekend, so we've got a bit
of a van trip organized to get up there and
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support through the boys and have a few drinks with
a few clubs.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
I suppose we're about the Districts Clinton. It is Clinton.
That's right.
Speaker 8 (37:28):
Yeah, yeah, so it would be good fun. I'm sure
of it.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
See that comes around faster than not.
Speaker 8 (37:34):
Yeah, it does. It seems like we just announced he
was the winner.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Because districts last year how to belfer and they're a
lot later on in the year. Is there any real
or reason is to win their out?
Speaker 8 (37:47):
I think I'm not one hundredercent sure on that one, Andy,
but I think they're trailing in different format. Yeah, I'm
I'm not one hundred centual that.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
And if you are around Clinton, go and have a look.
It's always interesting to see what's going on.
Speaker 8 (38:01):
Yeah, that's pretty cool. There's some cool different modules and
it's on an over on. The enters always enjoys it
because they get challenged. So yeah's good watching.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
And it's the same old story. The worst thing is
you learned something, right, Yeah, it's so they attached competition
and Drummond that's pretty popular still.
Speaker 8 (38:19):
Yeah yeah, no, yeah, it's pretty big, to be honest.
And they open up the club and yeah, lots of
teams always good on a on a warm meetings.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
So because Stornberry's got a team in there too, is
that right?
Speaker 8 (38:34):
Well yeah, yeah, we used to join with them. But
we've actually got a lot of numbers now that are
keen on it, so we have our own team now.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
So what are your membership numbers in the club then?
Speaker 8 (38:47):
I think we're sitting about thirty. We've got a few
that have been coming to a few meetings and just
trialing about web. But with the Christmas Races coming up,
I gather the be a few more takers and memberships
come in.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
So so the Christmas Races is like the golden ticket
for people who want to join that you reckon, it's.
Speaker 8 (39:10):
A pretty fun day to be honest. Yeah, what can
I say? You know what? The Race of the Light.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yeah, I know there's betting going on. This horse is running,
am I right?
Speaker 8 (39:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (39:24):
And a few.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Drinks better and a responsible man of people.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
It's interesting you talk about getting people to come along
as a taste of speaking to some people in Tian
now at the bar Cup and saying it was intriguing
or interesting how many people would come along that weren't
actually from a rural background and thought The Young Farmers
was actually aimed at rural people when it was more
or less just about a cross space of society as such.
Would you guys have many people who do turn up
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from non farming backgrounds.
Speaker 8 (39:51):
Oh yeah, probably just as much as the farmers. We've
got through the stamp of with the Scott Macadacs, builders
all sorts. So it's definitely not just farmers. It's honestly
just a network of young people that are teen to
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get out and do stuff. And yeah, obviously you want
to be a bit positive about Jerry farming, so farming
in generals, I say, so, yeah, that's that's not just
farmers though, So that's the beauty of it.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Do you see that positivity when you're speaking to members Eila,
just about the rural sector as such from a young
person's perspective.
Speaker 8 (40:37):
Yeah, for sure. Yeah, and a lot of positive activity
around this year as well, which is great. But yeah, no,
we don't really see many new Kotive comments come through
the club anyway.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
No, brilliant.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Hey, we're just touch on this as well. You're a
member of a Tago Spirit. You've got quite a bit
of travel going out to dinners throughout the season. You
guys had a really good year.
Speaker 8 (40:59):
Yep, pretty awesome, Indy, we won the Sheriff Palmer Championship,
so pretty stoked with eity fit to be honest. Yeah,
big commitments and I'm happy to get the win.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
So you go up to the Premiership next season.
Speaker 8 (41:16):
Yep, Yeah, we'll be up there, which would be cool.
I think the last time we did that it was
before COVID, so quite a while ago. And yeah, the
girls have been training really hard and touching staff and
all that. Yeah, that'll be starting your work now.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
I suppose when you're traveling from south and all the
way through to don as the bonus says, you'll live
a Carlo to go up there with, so it's not
a lonely travel.
Speaker 8 (41:42):
Yeah. Yeah, someone up and Gore and the restuff in Dalkluther.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
So back on task.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
I suppose our young farmers of course at Nightcaps meetings
occur monthly.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
When do you guys meet them? Wear and what's the dates?
Speaker 1 (41:55):
People need to know.
Speaker 8 (41:57):
We meet the first Wednesday of every month and it's
usually at the top pub in winter. But I recommend
checking the Instagram or Facebook page on the social media
is that we'll have an update. We've been doing a
few farm tours and barbecues and things like that, just
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changing it up a weave it. So yeah, check socials
or given touch through the nightcap other Young Farmer's website
as well.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Good on you, I'm always good to catch up you
enjoy the.
Speaker 8 (42:29):
Other awesome CH's Andy Kitscher.
Speaker 7 (42:35):
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Speaker 2 (43:08):
Hey, well on that too, have got there? And how
did he go on again?
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Stock selling action happened at Laudville sale Yards this morning
PGG rights and Sam Rowley gives us a rundown on
prices in between bites of his pie which are inconvenience
from with this afternoon. Sam apologies, but we need to
know these prices. How dear, is that meat going into
that pie?
Speaker 6 (43:25):
Well?
Speaker 10 (43:26):
Now the meat going under the pie is reason sure, mate,
but it doesn't even looking them with one bite out
when you're read. That's all right, thoughts and prayers, Yeah,
yeah exactly. We'll kick it off with the lambs today, mate,
most heavy lambs were two eighty to three fifty a
gain three fifty three fifty years, three fifty on the top.
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Yeah yeah when you look at it, look at their
pie and makes.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
For very it's a very expensive pie, all right.
Speaker 10 (43:57):
How else did we track for seventy on the mediums
and the lighter end prime lambs one seventy two twenty
the heavy years probably a bit of a lift there,
two hundred and thirty on those heavies, one sixty one
ninety on the mediums and one twenty to one forty
on the lottery and stuff hanful the rams in the
good heavy rams and ninety dollars in medium sixty to seventy.
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They've been selling very well there, just a very small
yarding of using of store lambs six one sixty to
one seventy on those and using lands were counted pretty
similar to last week, one twenty five to one thirty
seven there into the prime pedal good guarding and mainly
prime pals cal kels coming in and picked that off
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of steers five hundred and ten kloes, sixty two five
hundred ninety five ko Hereford steers and four sixty heavers
at four ninety kgs. They were full four dollars and
cows four hundred and eighty kg plus they ranged from
three king to three dollars thirty. SE's been selling very
well there store kettle. There's no report on the store
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kettle as there was only two pins of mixed bread
kettle there that went really worth cominging on to be fair.
So we do have our main kettle sale coming up
on Thursday, the first of the spring kettle sales at Warble,
so that is Thursday the sixteenth. We covid at teen thirty.
There is approximately seven to eight hundred mix ex sealing
cattle there. Come along there if you're looking for a
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few kettle or it is on a bit as well.
Also this week we have the carrot continuation of the
ball sales going on, so welways look at Saturday's paper
on Facebook pages for the rest of the takes and
times of the continuing ball sales you So that wraps
up wall and yeah we'll get me back into my pie.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
You enjoyed that pie, I will do.
Speaker 10 (45:47):
Thank you you're oping again, and let them out in
a low humbo
Good afternoon, and welcome to the muster on HOKANII I
mean Emily here until two o'clock and the show is
brought to you by Peterson Elex. Thanks for your company.
On an overcast afternoon here and Gore. Sunshine is like
trying to peek through on the hills as a look
out there on the vistas around the edge of town.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
But yeah, there we go.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
We spot of it coming through there. We'll talk weather shortly,
Bob Marley for a Tuesday, just keep it chilled for
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with breezies our westerlys and twelve. Wednesday afternoon showers of
breezy northerlies nor westers seven and sixteen. Thursday morning showers
of westerlies forming six and thirteen.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Friday seems to be the pick of it. Really cloudy.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
You were breezing northwesterlies nine and nineteen and Saturday showers
of northwesterlies forming five and fifteen. So temper just a
hand northern south of nine point five, Riveton eleven, tian
now ten point six, Tetaroha ten point three went to
nine point six at Woodland's ten point three. Mark Delatoyt,
chief Executive of Open Country, starts the muster this afternoon,
(01:26):
followed up by Graham Butcher Funk consultant looking at feed levels,
heading through a season where it's at a premium at
the moment, and just trying to understand how your budgeting
should operate.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Grant as Ars McMasters on.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
The program of course, out of closper in Station. Followed
up by Daryl Moyles or Saturn, Dan Stock Foods and
Eyler Pringle of Nightcaps Young Farmers. Sam Riley from PGG
Rights and gives us a rundown on the land prices
and the stock prices that matter in general from a
LOUNGEVI Sale Yards of course, thanks to a team PGG writes,
(02:00):
and we'll start the hour next with Mark de Latour.
This is the muster until two o'clock thanks to Peter's genetics.
Mark de Latours, chief executive of Open Country, and joins
(02:23):
us this afternoon on the muster as we catch up
with the team.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Mark, good afternoon, Welcome once again.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Yeah, good afternoon Andy, there was a very summary chirpy
song and it's I'm looking at the window here and
that it's not as sunny as that song make you feel.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Down here in the South has been weat but in
general in the North Island, how's the situation been.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Mark's pretty wet, same again, you know, it hasn't been
too bad, but there there's certainly a bit more sunshine,
you know, it would have been ideal. But that said,
there's lots of feed around. It's warmed up nicely and
and you know, to be honest, right through the entry
milk flows are very very strong. So it's been a
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great start of the season.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
How would they compare to say, twelve months ago with
the big weed as we called it.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, you know for Southland, you know, we're up two
or three percent on we were at the same time
last year, so certainly not as bad as last year,
you know it. It'd be nice to see, like I
see it, a bit more sunshine coming now, a bit
warmer temperatures. But we are up up in the North
Island here, we're we're well up. It's you know, seven
(03:31):
eight percent for most of the farmers. We're in the
middle of our farmer supply meeting Rochow at the moment,
and then we've completed Wykadow down in Taranaki Manaua two
this week and then south from the following week, so
certainly comes with see some really good productivity.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Of so farmer sentiment at the moment, how would you
read it?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Pretty positive? Pretty positive? Yeah, I think you know, I
was explaining that without being the profit of doom, and
in no way am I doing that, But I have
suggested that product prices are probably high now for the season,
and our forecast show that they're going to tack back
a little bit through the season. So it's great to
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have the production right now so strong because prices are high,
so it looks good for an overall return for the season.
But it's you know what, we would be ashamed to
see some of these prices being missed out of volumes
we went there. So I start for the season and
farm pretty happy.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
When are you expecting peak milk flow?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Well, Wyketo, why Kadow? It is right now as we speak,
it's it's peaked and this rain might actually slow it
down a little bit, so I would say, you know,
probably over the weekend. Why Kato hit its peak central
all time turnicking on too. If we're not there now,
it certainly will be in the next couple of days.
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Probably still a good to three weeks away.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Now. The GDT auctions, we've seen a few well let
be on us for slight declines over the last six
or eight weeks. Mark, are you concerned if we see
too many more of these that it's going to change
the situation?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
As you alluded to briefly before.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, I guess you know a lot of that is
pig milk, you know, buyers around the world. No, but
New Zealand's got a lot of milk at this time
of the year and salespeople need to keep it moving.
But I wouldn't say concerned. Like I said, we're forecasting
the prices to come off a little little bit. Just globally,
there is a lot of pro action around and whilst
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demand is steady, I don't see any anything that's going
to trigger a crash. But you know, with this volume increasing,
I think we'll just see a slow softening of the
of the prices through the season. It'll still be a.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Great a slow softening of prices though it is still
pretty good compared to what we could have.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Right, that's right, that's right. I mean, that's the thing
about commodity, isn't it any I mean, when they're they're high,
like down now and no one can even see a
good justification for them coming down. And yet a couple
of years ago, if you look at seven eight bucks,
no one could see the price is ever returning. So
there's a strong human mentality aspect of commodity. A process
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we do know is that they do lift up and
drop down with supply and demand, and most people can
deal with with a slow movement. It's it's when it
drops off a cliff that that everyone gets caught out.
So I don't think there's anything to suggest it's.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Going to happen open countries purchase in the Tara Valley milk.
It happened well, a couple of months ago. Now we've talked,
I've talked to you since then. But of course the
extr resistion as well as of Maracas. So a couple
of prudent investments is fair to say.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah, And I spent a bit of time talking for
the funders and you know, for all your listeners, you know,
not not this week, but next week when we're down
in southern Otago on it's come along and we'll explain
those a little bit more. But no, that we're very
very happy with them. They're they're they're certainly the Matara
Valley purchase that that actually doesn't complete till the end
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of this month, so you know where she haven't done
anything there yet. But we're very much looking forward to
having the Matara Valley team join us, so that will
happen that he does. But meat Aca where we're in
the midst of getting arms around that business now and
and they're very very full and very very busy. So
that's that's a that's a really good addition to the
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to the group already, so lots of milk collection efficiencies
to be had, and you know, I think, well, once
we can take a breath, as when we got off peak,
then it'll be good to really start tweaking tweaking the dolls.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
How suppliers reacted to the news of those two acquisitions very.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Positive, very positive. In general. I don't think that we've
had any great need sent most most people understand and
this industry, you know, this industry, you just have to
have scale. The scale allows you to have your Scots
your own heads spread and competitive and it also is
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a risk play. So if you look at meat Acre
for example, you know we've got we've got two sites
and what the cato We now have meat Acre and
Tapa and then Monnilia a bit further south. So what
it does allow us to do is, you know, if
one of our plants have a bit of a whoopsie,
or certainly on the shoulders of the season the milk
flows are coming up and dropping down, you do get
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to keep some of the sites fully optimized. And so
from a point of view, with some comfort, that scale
gives you efficiency and it also gives you risk mitigation.
So when things happen as they always do, you've got
some options.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
So you're still on the lookout for new supplies down
here in the South given the acquisition of MBM.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah, absolutely we are. Absolutely we are so where you know,
like I said, come end of this month, completion will
be done on that deal and we're definitely on the
lookout for new milk. We're excited about what we can
do with that site. You know, we think there's a
there's an opportunity upscale there. We're going to throw some
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more capital down south and you know, extending our products
a little bit down there. So I'm always looking to
to get some more supply. And like I always say,
even if even if a farmer hasn't made up their
mind and they just want to have a chat, have
have a cup of tea and look the options, We're
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happy to do that as well. So just just meeting
with us and having a chat doesn't mean you have
to come over, but always happy to have that chat.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Mark Della to a chief executive of Open Country. Always
appreciate your time on the muster.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
No from any go.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Well the musters on the farm broad to you by
Southland District Council working together for a better Southland.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Graham Butcher, fun Consultant, joins us once again on this
overcast afternoon down in the south.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Graham, how are you.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
I'm very good in yourself, Andy.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
You're not too bad. Well acknowledge the weather in the
situation is not as bad as this time last year,
but it's not a big change.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Really.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Well, I've had clients ring up. They're getting into tractive
work now, so you probably wouldn't have done this last year. Yeah,
So yeah, I mean that's what it is. We just
have to manage your way through it.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
And that's the subject for today. We're talking past you covers.
How are people coping At the moment. They're getting through
pretty good.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Oh, I think at the stage covers are probably starting
to pick up a wee bit so all temperatures are rising,
so light at the end of the tunnel maybe, but
it's been a difficult spring. I probably talked about this
several times this season and probably previous years as well,
just talking about pasture covers and body condition score use.
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I came across some relatively old data from twenty years ago,
which in my book that's not that long ago, put
out by Meat and Walk, So that'll give you an
idea of how old it is. It's looking at peak
in takes of use and pasture covers that aren't required
to get there. We know this information shows that it's
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seventeen if you want your peak and take if you
use so they get a good lactation. It peaks at
around seventeen hundred k'sa dry matter, so once you get
to seventeen hundred cover the US can't actually eat a
hell of a lot more So, it's a bit of
a bit like grass growth. Really, once you get down
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to eleven hundred, there's no way can they have the
intake that they need to produce a good lactation. Between
eleven hundred and thirteen hundreds of very sharp increase in
the intake of the U and between thirteen hundred and
seventeen hundred the intake slows down, but it peaks at
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about seventeen hundred, which raises a pretty good question. Actually,
is that the pasta covers we're getting in the spring
here probably nowhere near what's required to have a peak
you intake and a peak you intake. You need that
to get good lactation underway. And the lactation is really
critical because now it is the easiest time to put
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life weight gain on lambs. There's no question about it.
Once you hit weaning, once you hit the higher temperatures
in summer, pasta quality drops off. They haven't got the milk.
Your potential to grow those lambs is a lot less.
So we've got to make hay. Why the sunshines at
this time of the year from now until weaning is
absolutely critical. So to get those higher pasta covers in
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the spring, I mean, you can sit down and do
the arithmetic and who winter feed budget and determine first
to may you need that sort of cover, so you
come out of the winter that cover that we need
a bit tied up to with how much brassca crop
you grow. You can take a lot of stock off
our pasture let it grow over the winter if you've
got plenty of brassacre, So that's an important thing to do,
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managing or determining first to make cover more particularly managing
your feed over the winter, so you come out in
the spring with a decent cover, So that's important. The
other bit of information that came across from the Meat
and All again from twenty years ago is the impact
of body condition score on milk yield and use. Quite interesting.
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The difference between our body conditions score three and two
is actually quite a significant amount of milk, particularly if
your feed conditions are not where they need to be.
So the way I sort of look at it, you
can do your feed budget first to make covers, allocate
your feed over the winter, come out of the spring.
You can budget and plan to do that, but often
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things go astray. You might lose a paddic of swedes,
or if something goes wrong or you have a dry
autumn and you don't get the growth you're expected, so
we need plan to have that first to make cover.
Bit often it's things go astray, that's just farming they do.
So in that situation where you can expect things going astray,
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your body condition score that you will actually buffer that
lactation in the spring. So really important to do your
planning for better covers in the spring and have your
use in good condition coming out of the winter is
particularly important. But so lactation actually kicks off and your
lambs go quicker and you have higher winning drafts, and
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that takes pressure off in the summer and it's more
easy to get a good first to make cover, or
you plug in some store lambs or whatever. So all
those things body conditions, core pasture covers in the spring
are all under your control.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
This is interesting as well. We talk with us a
couple of weeks. Now we'll just go back to the
wall price and the way that there has been a
second big sale out of christ Church last week was
almost as positive as a fortnight ago. Did you catch
up on that?
Speaker 5 (15:09):
I haven't caught up on that one.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Now I think there out of christ Church, right, that's
just yesterday or that was last week, late last week.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Yeah, that's good to see. I must look up the
graph and hopefully that we check up. We saw last
time it carries on?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah, look, I think it was still another thirty cents
or something on the sale compared to the forty odds.
So good, Yeah, yeah, pretty much. Hey, when you're talking
to your clients as well, just farmers in general, when
it comes to six months sharing, given that the price
is coming up when it comes to it's an interesting
thought process around this, right, do you go to eighth
month sharing to do six month or do you go
to twelfth month because it becomes just a sustainability thing
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price wise, But Joinity, your clients, how do they look
at it?
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Horses for courses, I think eight months sharing you don't
see a lot of it these days, a little bit
more difficult to manage. So the twelve months sharing cost wise,
it's pretty good. Or quality wise probably not so good.
Animal health wise, probably not so good, which is why
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you probably see more two times sharing in a year
because people that do that put a great amount of
store on animal health issues, casting a sheep in the spring,
all that sort of stuff, and that's important with a
bull price coming up, it probably becomes a bit more
economic to do double sharing in a year, But in
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terms of your net woole income it's not particularly good.
But that's I've set against animal health issues and what
have you. So farmers that do it put a great
deal of store in that. So I think it's horses
for courses. Really, if you've got hell country difficult to
get around, if you're losing cast us, the two months
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sharing might be on for you.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Have we talked about this a while ago, Just to
wrap up to you talked about a three and twenty
four lambing. Anybody taking that on? Are you looking for
somebody to volunteer?
Speaker 5 (17:10):
I think when you look at it technically, it's really interesting.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
In Southland that's going to be the thing getting someone
to Lamb and May and Southland.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
I think it is. But you have to reimagine what
your whole sheep farm looks like.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Absolutely always food for thought. Graham Butcher, thanks for your time.
As always, Thank you, Graham Butcher Farm Consultant. You're listening
to the muster up next way to close bar And Station.
We talked to Grant Disaster McMaster away to close ber
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And Station on the edges of Lake Wakatapu. Grant does
as McMaster joins us once again thanks to the team
at Abbey Rural Grant.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Good afternoon, Good afternoon, Andy, Good afternoon, everybody.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Weather conditions in the basin. You're not having to water
ski around the farm or anything ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
I wouldn't say the tracks hard and fast, but thirty
five miles of rain since we spoke last week. Snow
on Saturday or Sunday, whatever day it was down quite
halfway down the mountains around the lake. It sort of
went the next day. Hard frost this morning, but yeah,
it's a barmi seven degrees today that turns out with
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a bit of cool bree so, yeah, not as much
rain as we've had, but things are still pre damned.
Although things are looking quite good as in the place
is looking reasonably green. There's a green tins coming through
the hill and on the flats, but there's not a
lot of well, there is a lot of grass, but
as Frank Pompson would have said, it's not very high.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Just frustration. They're getting frost, heavy frost. That's time of you.
We have one last week here in Gold but that
was only one.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Yeah, well that's we've got a couple. Well that's the
only one we've had this week for that. But it's
you know, it's just one of those things that you know,
we've got an orts here I planted about fifteen years
ago and and you know, blossoms out there now, but
I haven't that look at this morning where they'll probably
to tailor a few apricots and what have you. We
never seem to get much fruit off it because we
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get these late bloody frosts and yeah, way go. So no,
not easy.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
You haven't got the spuds in yet.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
I've got them in the cupboard and they'll be staying
there for a while. So yeah, I can't actually give
you the ground temperature because I was doing a scientific
experiment the other night up at one of my neighbors places.
He's out from Australia and we were having a couple
of ales and he'd just sold a little bit of rawn,
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so I went and got my my soil test are
out and he also had two that he uses for
cooking ops and turkeys or whatever. So we're we're doing
an experiment there to see if there's any difference, and
to be fair, the little one you get from the
from the supermarket is just as good as the one
I got from Balance. So that was all very good.
But in the meantime on the way home, I've lost
it somewhere, So I can't give you a soul camp today.
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But his lawn the other night with thirteen degrees, well
that's what we thought it did.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
So what you were saying is get your thermometer from
after doing the mutton guard, stick it in the lawn.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
It'll be as.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
Accurate, exactly, exactly as always. Give a time to turn
call down a bit.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yeah you know want eighty four degrees coming through?
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Do you?
Speaker 7 (20:33):
You know?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Lamming obviously just getting underway.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Yeah, Lambing is getting underway now with sort of gears
and I'm just sneaking around the place at the moment.
It is just this with the rain of heaters. The
few the flat pettis out by mort Blake have got
you know, tussocks on them, and it's a great, great
area for you to get cast. And even though these
piran does are easy care, I've got I've just picked
up a couple this morning from my vantage point. So yeah,
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know the lambs are starting to pop out now and
the cars are going, carve is going all right, and yeah,
there's only one of the hi has left over the
Hell block to do. So it's certainly the grass is
over theretown. It's a lot better on the on the
Hogit block than it is here for for orevious reasons.
It's not getting as much rain. And you know we're
on a bit of rotation over there. So they all
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and all, it's if we just get this. Since we
spoke last week, there's been you know, there's been quite
a change around and what grass we do have, So
a couple of paddocks by the wall shed, I'm just
gonna put some cows and calves and now I've got
them sort of ready to go across. It's tsking into
that stage where in a couple of paddics not so
many us in it. So yeah, if that continues, it
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all well and good.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Now we talked a.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
While ago ground about loose dogs being on the prow
unfortunately attacking yous and it seems as though this continued
in your nick of the woods.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Yeah you want a production time. Everything's going to be
all right. I hope it will be, but I've got
a bad feeling it's not so. Yeah, we spoke last well,
you know back in April where those two d's got
tidied up about fifteen of them. And before that in
February there was nine news and here around now the
morning there's another sixteen ewes just slaughtered. So's it's mental
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health week. I tell you what a bloody near needed.
I think it's a however, thing to have. You know,
we have lots of things to test you and farming.
It's all to do with the weather, isn't it. In
markets and the sort of things that are out of
our control on you know, you'd think dog a dog
attack is you know once twice, third time it's not lucky,
and just not to be able to nail them as
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pretty difficult. So it's one thing finding those newes and
then you go to spend the rest of the morning
picking them up and then cutting a few throats that
these dogs has just been playing with and that's what
they do. So anyway, when we had that previous and
these are the same dogs, we know where they're coming from,
we know when they're off, but just haven't been able
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to line them up. It's a pretty big area and
it's at different all different times of Junior at night.
So last time back in April when the when the
Animal Control came out, they took come. They said, oh,
we'll get some DNA kits boarded for if this happens again.
And I said, well, it's not if it happened, it's
when it's happened, when it happens. So yeah, best you
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get them, because I said, you know, January now, and
I said, it'll keep continuing as long long as those
dogs get out. So anyway, sure enough I gave them
ring on whatever morning it was, and they bought the
kits out. And however we had been a bit of rain,
which isn't good. But anyway, got the examples and they'll
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send away. But I spoke to carry that night, who
runs the operation, and she said, well, unfortunately, she said,
the way the law is, we can't actually because we
haven't seen those dogs. You know, you know, we know
they're doing it, we know they're off. Because we can't
haven't seen those dogs, and you're probably go back and
these we haven't got the power to go on to
the DNA tests. Well that's about as much use as
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an Asclona motivate, isn't it. But again It's just one
of those things that's every you read about it in
the in the in the papers, and you said on
the news the number of dog attacks on well sheep,
but mainly mainly people are you know, in the cities
and while wherever it's people have no there's no accountability
for those people. And you know there's dogs that the
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pound have gotten and you know they know they've gotten
the child, but they can't put them down because these
people go to court so and you know before the court,
so there's no accountability. It's the old thing. You know,
the bloody the good guys are doing the best and
you know there's no backup. So and I think as
as we know that as the town moves into the country,
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and Queenstown's a classic example of that, you know that's
more prevalent. And but the manners of these dogs or
just jet dogs in general with people. You know, you
read about them going to dog parks and the dogs
having fights and you out left them off leads, and
you know, it just starts at the training that most
of the people have got dogs, shouldn't bloody have them?
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And you know you go to a dog trial and
there's a you know in New Zealand, there's a thousand dogs.
There's never a fight and it's good they're broken and well,
I'm maned. I imagine the same at Crufts and those
agility shows. You know, those people are you know, they
know what they're dogs when they train them. So it's
bloody and excusable. But that's the way it is, and
that's what we're you know, that's what we're finding against
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at the moment.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
And these dogs.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
As far as micro shipping everything else, that's probably not
on the agenda for the owners either, unfortunately.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
No.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
And you know I did speak to the owner this
time and discussed it and what have you, and you know,
I offered a couple of solutions and that you know
with regarding putting them down, and said I pay for
it and actually pay him for being able to do
have that privilege. But he's he's declined that. But you
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know knows they're doing it and and you know I've
seen that on the on the WhatsApp thing. We'll send
out to all those people up there. You know, you
see what they've done, but yeah, not doing anything about it,
so that you know, frustrating and crawl and you know,
reason expensive it's probably about fifteen grand so far.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
So it's a bit like feeding strawberry to a peg,
isn't it.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
It's all about accountability, Grant, always appreciate your time. Here's
hoping you get a decent outcome.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Oh well, well yes, you never know, but I'm not hopeful.
But you know, to all those people out there that
may be listening that have got dogs, for christ sake,
keep them under control, know where they are, and you know,
we wouldn't have the situation. And the other thing is,
you know, these dogs are a different breed and they
once I've got the taste of that, as I said
to the guy that owns them, they will not stop
until you know they're eighty.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
So so to thought, grab a glass or at close
for in station with some message as well they're regarding dogs.
Thanks of course, Abby Rural. We catch up the ground
every week. Daryl Moyles is up next sagean dan Stock
Food Welcome back to the muster on Hakanui. Next we
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catch up with Daryl Moyles out of Sergeant dan Stock
Foods across the road here from Hakkanui HQ. Here in
Gore remembering.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
And Charlie the chocolate factory.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Augustus Gloop fell into a river of chocolate milk while I,
who was living in Gore, he'd be wishing he fell
into a vet of molessers that is coming out that
aroma just entrenching the main street of Gore as you
drive through, and more often than I you will get
the woof of musley as well. Daryl Moyles, good afternoon.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
Yeah, good afternoon. It's another good intro. Are you there's
a bit of molassis. We'll use the trucks here pulling
up the tanks. Now we're using around. I think he's
delivering twenty five ton every six or seven days, so
we use a orgin a molesis.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Yet it's a fair hunk of it.
Speaker 7 (27:58):
Yeah, well it goes into most feeds, so it's a
small portion, and some feeds in quite a high rate
in others, so it's just a necessity. It's one of
the key ingredients we use.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Have you ever taken at home and put it on
your week books?
Speaker 7 (28:10):
No? Not recently. No. For one, I don't even feet picks,
and I don't think I'll put my lessus on it.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
But well you hear about my lessons from days gone past,
not like a super food, but just being part of
the diet. I mean, yes, it's different times now and
certainly going into stock food, but back in the day,
different era.
Speaker 7 (28:28):
Yeah, totally. Yeah, I do know that some of the
old school ones. I've talked about molasses here, but we
use feed great of course, which is slightly watered down
from the old black strap, which is like freakil and
doesn't run unless it's warm. So what we use is
a wee bit different to what you'd probably imagine.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah, i'd imagine. So, now, how's everything been across the
road there? It sounds like you've been like rets up
a drain pipe, going furiously.
Speaker 7 (28:49):
Oh, this is their peak season, so I'd be concerned
if we weren't. We're going furiously. No, we weren't, said
this Sunday this week, last week, sort of pretty much
thirteen air days from six through or seven o'clock ever
day at the minimum, and then a wee bit more
if we need to. So there's a bit of feed
going through, but that's just the nature of the business.
This is clearly at peak season right through with in
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the Novemberrock Covia November are this month by a long way.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
So how much busy you a production be at the moment?
Say so what, I don't know?
Speaker 9 (29:18):
Maybe for example, yeah, what a double you know, we'll
put out last to two and a half thousand tons
this month daryan carf feed.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
So two and a half to three thousand ton all
going well, and in a normal month we're producing around
fifteen hundred ton calf pellets.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
That's the big thing at the moment, calf pellets. That
is you've got a pro amino calf pellets as well?
Is there an amino pro What's.
Speaker 7 (29:48):
That's their new racing model. So that's what Nello has
developed following some research that come out of Cornell University
in the US a few years ago. So we've had
it on trial for two or three years with some
very good car for it was just of gord but
we've least released that to the market and the Mino
pros going very very well. It's just eded amino acids,
so it's still really good high quality coffee, not starch,
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energy and protein which is what cars need. But we'll
just edited amino acids to make them grow faster and
getting onto grass and the room and developed quicker than
would normally.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Be especially at the moment, to fade just a little
bit behind what a lot for what a lot of
people would like. So obviously this is where supplement can plays.
Speaker 9 (30:29):
It's wrong, right, yeah.
Speaker 7 (30:31):
Well, I mean, no one thought we'd get a year
like last year, but unfortunately it's not a lot better.
So there's not a lot of feed around it. It's coming,
but yeah, most people don't have a surplace at the stage.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
It's like Christmas. It will appear one day.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
We had the odd ties with some nice weather, but
they seem to disappear. We get more rain. But now
the grass is still coming in most guards girls and
milking pretty well so and the cars are growing really well,
especially the ones on them. No approach, So there you go.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Chicken feed as well.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Now you've got quite a few people coming to you
for whatever reason. I think since lockdown, everybody trying to
get their own egg production. So that's quite a big
issue for you guys as well. Not a big issue,
it's a great issue actually getting the chicken feed out
there for people because there's so many of the done
things now right.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
Absolutely, there's a lot of sort of free range people
that have got two or three hundred or five hundred
one thousand, so and we do a big bolt bag
to chicken feed, like one done bags and half tone bags,
which the semi commercial guys really like. So that is
just growing month on month a month pretend to sell
more than a month prior, which surprises me. And when
we're really stretched toward calf and terry. It's a bit
of a mission to keep everybody happy, but that's just
(31:40):
what we do. So yeah, Chicken's going great down to
the moment.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
As far as snail feed as well, this is something
we learned last time. You actually produce snail feed. Obviously
it's not as a big a saler because snails are
smaller animals. You're not sure what the stocking rate is
per snail either for a per hectare has such so
I won't put those figures on you today, but this
is just fascinating. How are you thinking after our last
chat about snail production in New Zealand.
Speaker 7 (32:05):
Yeah, well there's a crowd and es Central a Target
that are doing snales i think for the Queenstown restaurant
market and we're doing turndred kilos at a time for them. Now.
Special feed netally developed a slightly different formulation than the
last lot. But apparently it's going well. But I'm not
one hundred percent sure on what feed right there on.
(32:25):
But that's a new one for us, and I never
thought we'd get into snail fooed. But there's not many
classes of stock we can't cater for any Do.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
You do peag food? Do you do pig food at all?
Speaker 7 (32:34):
Yes, of course we do pig field. We do quite
a bit of pig feed. But again there's no big
commercial figueries down here really, so it's just that the
backyard pigs were really feeding at the moment.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah, because peggery wise, sure malloy might correspondent based out
of Sheffield. I don't think there's anything as in production
wise anyway on the same scale. Want to tag a
south one, No, not that I'm.
Speaker 7 (32:55):
Aware of, or not that we're supplying foot that way here. Thanks,
probably one of our smaller lines in the whole. We
would do, you know, ten times or fifteen times more
chicken than pigs. So that'll give you an idea.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Right, There's docks and NPC to wrap up because you
enjoy your code. The Targo Bay have plenty Kennedy Hawks Bay,
the NPC semis. Who are you wanting to win and
who do you think will win?
Speaker 7 (33:17):
Well, I mean we have to support a Targo. There's
a couple of of course, good gold Boy and they're
kicking the goals. But I thought that a Target game
last week was bloody awesome. If I can say that
on the radio, you just did and Kim Millers and
Kim Miller's kick was fantastic. So I'd love to see
a Togo win. And I'm not too worried about the
other other semi. I know Canterbury's in the South Island.
(33:40):
Good to see the South Island final, but I have
to see what happens. But as lot as a Targo plenty,
I'll be pretty happy.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Yeah, I have the same I want to Targer to win.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
If they have plenty of where to come up trumps,
I'll be going for them over Kennarbary or Hawks Bay.
Afford your respect, but Hawks Bays aside, that's kind of
gone under the Raider and Kennerbury last week. Counties. Good
to see the Staggs play County in the form when
they did, because they just obviously got them in the
right frame of mind for the rest of the season.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
Yeah, I meaning on this game, like they were winning
the whole whole game, and I actually thought I was
actually supporting them. I thought it would have been good
to see them beating Kenbury. But Kenry is pretty tough
in that last ten minutes and with the extra time.
But Canry always come right at the end, So the
pretty tough side to beat. But I I mean, I
would like to see Hawksbay beat them. They'll be something
interesting for the season.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Just good to see a Tiger Rugby have a bit
of a renaissance too.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Considering the last couple of years they haven't really exowed
as sash but it sounds as though all this talent
they've had locally has started to work for them. But
they've kept the key of the squad together. I think
this for South and struggles. It's keeping the core of
the side for the next year. We had that many
turnovers this year, so you just got to give cutos
to a Tago. It's a real throwback to ninety eight
when the last one the NPC.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
Ye know, I think to Tager played a really good
start too. I mean they scored some really good tries.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
You know.
Speaker 7 (34:55):
Well, I bought out attacking team now I enjoy watching
them play, so yeah, good luck them.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
So Daryl Darrelf, somebody wants to get in touch with
Sergeant dan Stock Foods talk supplement requirements. How do they
get in touch?
Speaker 7 (35:07):
Just one hundred number which hundred? Sgt d A m Good.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
On your Darrell, Always appreciate your time. Thank you, Darryl Miles,
the Sergeant dan Stock Foods, Augusta Scoop, Augusta Scoop, the
big fat inco and poop. The line from back in
the day before we wrap up, Eila Prangle from Thorbury
Young Farmers.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
You're listening to the mustard.
Speaker 6 (35:38):
And ever we will be.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Eyler Prangle is chair of Nightcaps Young Farmers and joins
us next on the muster and our young Farmers wrap
up for the week.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Isler, how are you good?
Speaker 8 (35:49):
Thanks? Andy?
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Are you can't really complain?
Speaker 1 (35:52):
The season has been a little bit, if we since
we spoke to you last time five or six weeks ago,
but it's always a pack of max of southern weather, right.
Speaker 8 (36:00):
Yep, you can't, you can't take it. It's all part
of being a farmer.
Speaker 6 (36:03):
Really.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Now you're based at headshoked, you're getting through the season.
Speaker 8 (36:06):
Okay, there yep, yep, no chipping away. It's like better
than last spring. So I think there's three or finishing
their carving. So grass is just about the blasphole from
sure of it.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Yeah, here's hoping now, night Caps young farmers. Of course
your chair there. We spoke to you last time and
it was really interesting you were talking about the prominence
of being upfront in a leadership role as such. Now
within the Nightcaps club, what's been going on lately?
Speaker 8 (36:38):
Oh, you know, we have been just knuckling down and
getting through that carving and lemming season. But social sports
are just starting up. So we play Social Netball on
a Thursday night in winter, and we've got a Social
Touch team starts next week and were playing Drummond on
(36:58):
a Monday night, so that's all cracking off. We did
a farm tour around the Tulip Horizon's Tuelip sectory that
was pretty awesome, pretty eye opening to be honest. And
Districts is this coming weekend, so we've got a bit
of a van trip organized to get up there and
(37:19):
support through the boys and have a few drinks with
a few clubs.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
I suppose we're about the Districts Clinton. It is Clinton.
That's right.
Speaker 8 (37:28):
Yeah, yeah, so it would be good fun. I'm sure
of it.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
See that comes around faster than not.
Speaker 8 (37:34):
Yeah, it does. It seems like we just announced he
was the winner.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Because districts last year how to belfer and they're a
lot later on in the year. Is there any real
or reason is to win their out?
Speaker 8 (37:47):
I think I'm not one hundredercent sure on that one, Andy,
but I think they're trailing in different format. Yeah, I'm
I'm not one hundred centual that.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
And if you are around Clinton, go and have a look.
It's always interesting to see what's going on.
Speaker 8 (38:01):
Yeah, that's pretty cool. There's some cool different modules and
it's on an over on. The enters always enjoys it
because they get challenged. So yeah's good watching.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
And it's the same old story. The worst thing is
you learned something, right, Yeah, it's so they attached competition
and Drummond that's pretty popular still.
Speaker 8 (38:19):
Yeah yeah, no, yeah, it's pretty big, to be honest.
And they open up the club and yeah, lots of
teams always good on a on a warm meetings.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
So because Stornberry's got a team in there too, is
that right?
Speaker 8 (38:34):
Well yeah, yeah, we used to join with them. But
we've actually got a lot of numbers now that are
keen on it, so we have our own team now.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
So what are your membership numbers in the club then?
Speaker 8 (38:47):
I think we're sitting about thirty. We've got a few
that have been coming to a few meetings and just
trialing about web. But with the Christmas Races coming up,
I gather the be a few more takers and memberships
come in.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
So so the Christmas Races is like the golden ticket
for people who want to join that you reckon, it's.
Speaker 8 (39:10):
A pretty fun day to be honest. Yeah, what can
I say? You know what? The Race of the Light.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yeah, I know there's betting going on. This horse is running,
am I right?
Speaker 8 (39:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (39:24):
And a few.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Drinks better and a responsible man of people.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
It's interesting you talk about getting people to come along
as a taste of speaking to some people in Tian
now at the bar Cup and saying it was intriguing
or interesting how many people would come along that weren't
actually from a rural background and thought The Young Farmers
was actually aimed at rural people when it was more
or less just about a cross space of society as such.
Would you guys have many people who do turn up
(39:49):
from non farming backgrounds.
Speaker 8 (39:51):
Oh yeah, probably just as much as the farmers. We've
got through the stamp of with the Scott Macadacs, builders
all sorts. So it's definitely not just farmers. It's honestly
just a network of young people that are teen to
(40:14):
get out and do stuff. And yeah, obviously you want
to be a bit positive about Jerry farming, so farming
in generals, I say, so, yeah, that's that's not just
farmers though, So that's the beauty of it.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Do you see that positivity when you're speaking to members Eila,
just about the rural sector as such from a young
person's perspective.
Speaker 8 (40:37):
Yeah, for sure. Yeah, and a lot of positive activity
around this year as well, which is great. But yeah, no,
we don't really see many new Kotive comments come through
the club anyway.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
No, brilliant.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Hey, we're just touch on this as well. You're a
member of a Tago Spirit. You've got quite a bit
of travel going out to dinners throughout the season. You
guys had a really good year.
Speaker 8 (40:59):
Yep, pretty awesome, Indy, we won the Sheriff Palmer Championship,
so pretty stoked with eity fit to be honest. Yeah,
big commitments and I'm happy to get the win.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
So you go up to the Premiership next season.
Speaker 8 (41:16):
Yep, Yeah, we'll be up there, which would be cool.
I think the last time we did that it was
before COVID, so quite a while ago. And yeah, the
girls have been training really hard and touching staff and
all that. Yeah, that'll be starting your work now.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
I suppose when you're traveling from south and all the
way through to don as the bonus says, you'll live
a Carlo to go up there with, so it's not
a lonely travel.
Speaker 8 (41:42):
Yeah. Yeah, someone up and Gore and the restuff in Dalkluther.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
So back on task.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
I suppose our young farmers of course at Nightcaps meetings
occur monthly.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
When do you guys meet them? Wear and what's the dates?
Speaker 1 (41:55):
People need to know.
Speaker 8 (41:57):
We meet the first Wednesday of every month and it's
usually at the top pub in winter. But I recommend
checking the Instagram or Facebook page on the social media
is that we'll have an update. We've been doing a
few farm tours and barbecues and things like that, just
(42:18):
changing it up a weave it. So yeah, check socials
or given touch through the nightcap other Young Farmer's website
as well.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Good on you, I'm always good to catch up you
enjoy the.
Speaker 8 (42:29):
Other awesome CH's Andy Kitscher.
Speaker 7 (42:35):
Laugh out loud with ag proud because life on the
land can be a laughing matter.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Brought to us by sheer Well Data working to help
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world of David Warner's try and be like Richie Bino,
r ip those dulcet tones of Richie. That's us for
the afternoon. My name's Andy muh. You've been listening to
the muster on Hakan to Peters Geneis. Enjoy the afternoon,
(43:02):
the podcast going up shortly and iHeart radio. Catch you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
Hey, well on that too, have got there? And how
did he go on again?
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Stock selling action happened at Laudville sale Yards this morning
PGG rights and Sam Rowley gives us a rundown on
prices in between bites of his pie which are inconvenience
from with this afternoon. Sam apologies, but we need to
know these prices. How dear, is that meat going into
that pie?
Speaker 6 (43:25):
Well?
Speaker 10 (43:26):
Now the meat going under the pie is reason sure, mate,
but it doesn't even looking them with one bite out
when you're read. That's all right, thoughts and prayers, Yeah,
yeah exactly. We'll kick it off with the lambs today, mate,
most heavy lambs were two eighty to three fifty a
gain three fifty three fifty years, three fifty on the top.
(43:50):
Yeah yeah when you look at it, look at their
pie and makes.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
For very it's a very expensive pie, all right.
Speaker 10 (43:57):
How else did we track for seventy on the mediums
and the lighter end prime lambs one seventy two twenty
the heavy years probably a bit of a lift there,
two hundred and thirty on those heavies, one sixty one
ninety on the mediums and one twenty to one forty
on the lottery and stuff hanful the rams in the
good heavy rams and ninety dollars in medium sixty to seventy.
(44:19):
They've been selling very well there, just a very small
yarding of using of store lambs six one sixty to
one seventy on those and using lands were counted pretty
similar to last week, one twenty five to one thirty
seven there into the prime pedal good guarding and mainly
prime pals cal kels coming in and picked that off
(44:41):
of steers five hundred and ten kloes, sixty two five
hundred ninety five ko Hereford steers and four sixty heavers
at four ninety kgs. They were full four dollars and
cows four hundred and eighty kg plus they ranged from
three king to three dollars thirty. SE's been selling very
well there store kettle. There's no report on the store
(45:03):
kettle as there was only two pins of mixed bread
kettle there that went really worth cominging on to be fair.
So we do have our main kettle sale coming up
on Thursday, the first of the spring kettle sales at Warble,
so that is Thursday the sixteenth. We covid at teen thirty.
There is approximately seven to eight hundred mix ex sealing
cattle there. Come along there if you're looking for a
(45:26):
few kettle or it is on a bit as well.
Also this week we have the carrot continuation of the
ball sales going on, so welways look at Saturday's paper
on Facebook pages for the rest of the takes and
times of the continuing ball sales you So that wraps
up wall and yeah we'll get me back into my pie.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
You enjoyed that pie, I will do.
Speaker 10 (45:47):
Thank you you're oping again, and let them out in
a low humbo
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