October 14, 2025 • 45 mins
Andy Muir talks to James Edgar, Jared Stockman, Liz Ferns & Steve Smith, Lyn Berry and Russell Maloney.
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Smith from aby Line. We have a chat Lynn Barry
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report things to PGG writes, and then we'll start the
hour with James Egger. You're listening to the US until
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two o'clock thanks to Peters Genetics. James Egga Farms and
Mars Flat and joins us once again. James, good afternoon,
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how are you. How's the battle?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
It's going well actually at the moment. We're nice and
green in my grand grass now, which is quite a pleasure.
So no hes uh seventy six he days of various
crops gone in so far, so getting through the groundwork.
So I think we've got another forty or soto of
the blackground to do, so yeah, getting well through that now.
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And we've got a bit of tailing to do. And
I'm doing some deer work today, so bring all the
hons in and put them in their falling blocks. I
still actually gave the phones on them because I don't
have enough. I'll rip them off and start velveting today too.
So yeah, it's always good when it's all going.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
You're doing well to get through the ground where it
considering the season.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, I'm not saying we got perfectly. We dragged strict,
drilled straight into the blackground this year because it was
such a dry winter. Haven't made too much of a mess.
And yeah, I don't know, there'll be there'll be various
opinions there and bends all the easier, absolutely advocate of
the playwal and but on especially had loighter soils on
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hill your country, I mean the Panics out late anyway,
And yeah, I just like to get the crops in,
so possibly count in a few corners. But yeah, I
find we don't get there sometimes when you get rain
events and you've worked the soil up on sort of
you know, hill country, it runs off into the creeks
and things. So yeah, there's a variety of reasons we
do it, and not a five minute job to work
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up work up one hundred hectares either, So yes, the
way we choose to do it. So we'll see how
how the results pain out, I suppose.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
So you're tailing tellies today, how they be? Are you happy?
You're never happy with tailing, must be honest.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Yeah, no, I thought I thought they looked pretty solid. Actually,
is what I think. We'd be a lot better, a
lot further up than last year. Last year. Last year
just kept getting worse as you kept going through the
tailing tellies. It was just the lambs weren't adding up,
and you knew you hadn't had a very good year
and it only got worse. That wasn't much fun. So
hopefully we go the other way this year. But I
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don't think we'll set any records, but it'll be yeah,
just what we need to be fear, just a nice
solid tailing.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Benison's schedules are looking pretty darn good.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, well it's lovely. We had the beef and AMAJM
yesterday and yeah, all the red meat prices are gone
game busters at the moment, which is which is great.
They've sort of probably been a reflection of the whole
world went. You know, I've got a lot more environmentally friendly,
which we all agree with. But one of the pecks
there is with the carbon and methane and all the
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other things, it's been a massive dropping livestock numbers around
the whole world. So when they're starting to really see
that reflected in schedule process, so I guess there's a
silver lining and all the stuff we had to deal
with a few years ago.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
And well remember this, James, six months ago, you're the
guy walking around with a T shirt Elemant, we needed
ten dollars for LAMB. We've currently got that. Have you
changed your chain?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
No?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Absolutely not. In fact, it's actually got better than that,
because I think I said twelve dollars top of the
season and ten dollars bottom, and I think we're currently
sitting just over eleven dollars for LAMB. I'm here in
the markets are paying that, so that's good and well,
it'll be interesting to see with the companies where I
think it's probably a reflection not keeping the chains falls
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they're not making money, but because they can't really fill
the contracts for the guys that want all their meats. No,
I think that's the number we've got to have to
be feared. Really changes sheep farming really quickly. Sheep and
beef farming those sort of prices. So it lets us
let us compete with forestry and carbon farming, and lets
us compete on the right country with dairy farming too
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and dairy support. So that's really exciting.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
We'll talk about the beef and lambs Southern South Island.
Agm usaid, of course you were there. You've been part
of the council. Full credit as well to term fit
see from back in the day to clear fi Owa
met and everybody. Great afternoon, put on really interesting speakers
and just overall the positivity regarding what's happening in the sector.
I think it needs to be acknowledged.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yeah, absolutely that it was really good. I thought kateick
Clinton she was a bit of a highlight of thought
in person. She came off really well, really smart woman,
so shit out there and the work they did in
behind with the grass and the reason why the prices
were high, and that was a really really positive day
actually lest there thinking, yeah, willing to put the last
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five to see and all the things because you you know,
you just felt you felt enthusiastic and excited, which we
should as an industry. Yeah, I have to being sort
of attacked on all sides. But no, that profitability thing
hare's been a number one, number one thing to work
on and now we're back. You know, I just don't
think you'll see the same amount of trees going around.
(07:20):
Is the better farmers keep getting better, they'll be you know,
looking to expand or doing different bits and pieces. So
that's really exciting Tom to be a farmer. Andy.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I think the only thing perhaps concerning regarding Kate's figures though,
was if we were to have a change of government
next year, listening to Damian O'Connor and what happens in
regards of these new new me saying targets that Nationals
and the Coalition government has introduced, and what gets undone
then and what goes on Because the figure was banded
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around twenty percent of sheep and beef farm goes x
amount of dairy farms. But I don't know. Labor just
don't seem to acknowledge that.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
No, they tried very hard to make us go broke
not very long ago, didn't they, Andy. So I think
you would find a slightly more family, farmer friendly labor government, because, yeah,
the towns are still hurting. You really need the rural
sector to be strong so we can feed it all
back through our local rural communities and then that gets
fed back through the cities. And I think that's what
(08:19):
we'll find. So I'm probably slightly more optimistic than that.
But yeah, sometimes sometimes it's nice just to enjoy a
nice day on the farm and not think too many politics, Andy,
because it's pretty hard to make change, isn't it, I guess,
And someone's just going to control what you can control.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, probably a pretty pragmatic way to look at things
as well. We'll touching this briefly to the ge bill.
The conversation was had yesterday and a gentleman in the
crowd they asked for a show of hands regarding who
supported it going through, and it seemed to be about
fifty to fifty. It was a very random poll considering
where it was taken, but it's certainly something that continues
to divide.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah, no, it was. There's a few questions from the
crowd around around the GE. Probably there pointed towards a
negative view of it, I guess, And yeah, my viewer
is you can't change science. That's not to say we're
going to do it, but you've got to look at
all science and look at all technology and keep moving forward.
(09:19):
I mean, there was a real worry in the room
that roost of the world wouldn't take care of product
if it had some GE involved in it. I guess
that's not a worry for me. If you look at
the US and Australia, most of the crops in the
world are all GE crops grown. So it would be
a little bit ironic for those markets to turn around
and say new i's GE, so we don't want your
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product because all the local product is a g of
some description. I thought they were worried about the value
premiums around GE and if there was none, why are
we doing it? And I think the point was misty.
The real advantage of GE, in my mind, is not
so much in the animal science world. It's actually in
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the plant science, like if we can get like a
rye grass plant that is more resistant to a grass
grubb or perina or heads lease or you know, stays
doesn't go reproductive as much all of the above, that's
where I see the real benefit of the rye grass.
Well the other plant science ge debate, Yeah, just using
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less LEAs chemicals which would drop farm costs. Yeah, by
using those products. So that's that's my my five cents
on that. But I mean, yeah, I'd like to see
some more more information and more science before I fully
made my mind up. But you know, I'm certainly opening
and open to the idea of this ge rye grass.
(10:48):
I think he's on scientists. They're actually doing somebody. They
have to go overseas to do their trials. I don't
think I'm wrong on that one. So yeah, it'll be interesting.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Just finally, you're a tiger's got to do the best
us over a bath plenty on Friday night.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
You're giving me a bit of cheek there. When you
won the rent the Mighty self and stags, I thought
you turned the corner of it. No, ye're the mighty.
The mighty looks like she's going to go all the way.
If you asked me put the house on it.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Well I wouldn't. I wouldn't exactly put the house on it.
But we'll see here we might put some methane targets
on it and stead a James, So you always appreciate
your time.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Cheers and.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
James Egger of Moa Flat. You're listening to the muster.
Up next, Jared Stockman alderian Z, thanks for joining us
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on the muster. The theme today is Woman the Fair
of Sex. It is a International Rural Women's Day. That
song there by the Beeg is more than a woman
from staying from staying Alive. That was a spin off
movie from Saturday Night Fever featuring John Travolta and all
his bell bottom singing glory, I suppose for want of
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a better word. As we catch up next with Jared
Stockman out of Dairy and Zed, Jared, Good, afternoon.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Afternoon, Andy, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Look, we're seeing a bit of sunshine finally, long way
it continue, but it's been a bit of a stretch
over the last few weeks.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Yeah, here's Andy. Look, we've we've had a ton of rain,
but we have been saved by a bit of sunshine
and wind, but still challenging to get tricked as on
peddex and get that ground week done. So yeah, just
need maybe another week of this and we'll be into it.
But Tay, the grass is growing, cows, a bean milk
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and producing some really good results, so it's not all bad.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
So production doesn't seem to be back too much from
what you've said.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
No, I think it's I think it's up on last year,
and to be fair, that's probably not hard given the
spring we head. But I think you know, most of
the farmers we're talking to, you know, two point two
kilos and above summers hires two point eight. So yeah,
things that things are going pretty good.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Peak milk flow happening in the next few weeks as well.
I've just been that time of year now. Derrian's had
always something going on. You've had a couple of events
over the past week or two.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Yeah, we have. Last few days have been really cool.
Yesterday we're out at Stephen and Haley Clark's at Brighton.
Look very great example of growing in maximizing past year
and it's kind of highlighted there feeding about fifteen ton
of home ground past year, you know, two to three
kilos or something through the shed and essentially that's translating
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into about six thousand operating profit two heat year, which
is you know, which is really up there. But combined
with that, Stephen rinks from an emissions point of view,
you know, the best twenty percent in Southland. So it
kind of just highlights that you can do both. And
Steven's really aware of his you know, his social license
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in the area, particularly around the Edendalek Offer and it
does look a really good job and it's just an
absolute girl on passing management. And then this morning we've
been at Luke and gen Templeton's and Riverton. You know,
Luke's well known and fifth generation on their farm, their
environment leader, part of the Southern are have and the
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Ace Catchment group and lake feeds you know slightly least
hoone ground pasture but in a little bit more supplements.
But again operating profits over you know, five thousand height
dere and look the stuff that he does on farm
from an environmental point of view, you know, wetlands lower
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emissions and stuff is really good and Luke Luke does
it not because he has to is being told to
it he wants to do it. So we've yeah, just
a couple of really great field days that we've had
and again just demonstrating that very profitable businesses can still
meet farmer mission goals.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Just how hard is it though, to reach these A
mission targets, Darry? What are these people doing differently?
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Look if you look at Stephen, like, you know, he's
got he's got a extra plantain. He's part of our
during plantain target which has shown some good, good nitrate reductions,
which is perfect in his area because he's very aware
that you know, runoff feeds and feed and are equator equifers.
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So you know they seeminly want to do his but there.
But you know, if you look at the latest the
government announcement, you know, thank goodness, sanity has prevailed and
and we've got a lower a lower sort of target
for twenty fifty that kind of more aligns with the
(16:05):
later science you know on methane, you know, on the
methane warming impact. But look, these targets are still going
to be challenging with their new mitigation tools and strategies,
and so you know, as an organization, we're continuing to
push for faster research and development, and you know, we
just have to continue to work with government and partners
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to make sure that, you know, any targets are implemented
in a way that's practical. Interview for farmers.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, you mentioned senity there, but perhaps because they've only
got a year out to the next election, it could
be called or terms interim senency given that there's still
a lot of uncertainty around the next government make up too.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Yeah, there is, And you know, I guess we have
to be cautiously optimistic that the steps that are been
put in now are going to continue on because you know,
a lot of the stuff is science and research back
and so you know, I guess you know, if future
politicians are thinking they're better than science and research, then
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you know, that's a question I guess the voters will
will have to answer. But you know, I just I
just hope they're regulators in policy, both local and central
government really understand that, you know, farmers are really aware
of their their social license. They play a huge part
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of their economy. Any any rules and regulations that are implemented,
they need to be practical and people need to understand
that farmers are having to make decisions months and months
out and and kind of years out. So you know,
a flip of a pen can have a you know,
can have a devastating an impact on on farmers, both
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both here in South and right through the country. So
I just think we need to be really conscious that,
you know, make sure that we're have got a good
fear balance and that farmers can practically, you know, implement
some of the stuff that.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
The face with dared. Would you say the opposition though,
is not really in a position to recognize the work
going on in New Zealand agriculture regarding mission reduction.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Yeah, it's an interesting question. I think I think, you know,
I think they need to. I think they probably just
need to publicly acknowledge that farmers are doing a good job.
And you know, any any policy that comes out needs
to be fear and practical because you know, like I said,
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farmers want to do the right thing. So it's a
it's a tough thing. I try, I do try and
steer away from politics, but you know, but because we
have to, you know, we have to engage with whoever's.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
In the time.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
And so I guess from you know, I guess from
my point of view as we just we just really
want to see farmers treated fairly. We want we know
that the vast majority ninety nine are doing the right
thing day in and day out, and we just need
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to work out how we can support them. And you know,
there's a lot of rules in life, and I saw
a great thing. You know, probably something Carrie peck has
said in front of an audience number of years ago,
but you know his view was that if Parliament or
or counsel are looking to introduce a new rule, then
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they should repeal something else. So, you know, I think
we've got enough rules in life, so if you're going
to introduce something new, then repeal something old. So that's
my that's my two cents on that.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
That's your Kemp Brockman for today. But it's really well
appreciated and speaking a lot of sense that will resonate
for a lot of people. Jared Stockman, thanks for your
time once again on the Muster.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Jeez Andy, Thanks talking night.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Jared Stockman of Derry and Z Before the end of
the Yell of Lynn Burry Up next day, Liz Ferns
and Steve Smith from aby Line, Welcome back to the Muster.
(20:35):
Time to catch up with Liz Ferns and Steve Smith,
both of ab Lyme. We're catching out this afternoon talking
about some pretty cool things that have been going on
with the team there. Liz and Steve.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
Good afternoon, Good afternoon, Good afternoon, Andy.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Liz will talk to you first, having to bring the
boss and to help you out what's going on there.
You're pretty good in the segment happened in the past. Yeah,
I know, I know.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Sorry, thanks, these things that he does his projects, I
thought maybe he said he's better to talk to them
about yet.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, fair enough. Now Steve, you're the one who can
talk about the landfill there at av Line. Are you
even pretty busy in that space by the sounds of it.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
Yeah, Look, there's always plenty going on with a lentil
they're kind of pretty technically advanced, and yeah they take
it a week at of managing. But you know, there's
there's the opportunity, I suppose for a lot of innovation
and stuff. So we're yeah, there's sort of you know,
some byproducts that come off the landfill, lentil gas and
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some of those kinds of things which are obviously incredibly
useful to be used as a resource. So we've been
working away pretty curiously on Donat.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Obviously the landfill's going on there, I'm sure a bit
about it and the purpose regarding it.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Yeah, So, I mean we're just part of I suppose
of the Southland's kind of waste infrastructure. So you know,
everybody that's got a curbside bendness there in town or
you know, skip business, they're on a farm. You know,
all of those kind of wastes that are not deemed
recycling or some other clean field type material generally make
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their way out to av lime here and we're going
to put a big synthetically lined sort of landfill here,
and you know, the ability to take all of those
kind of products I suppose, if you want to call
them that that are at the end of life and
somebody who just wants to get rid of them, so
we put them in a fully symptotically mind hole here
that hopefully won't affect the environment any way ever in
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the future, and you can get rid of them on
half of our community.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
They were drying the line as well, using the guests
to do that. That's a great initiative.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
Yeah, yeah, we've just we've been trialing that actually for
quite a number of years. We probably maybe three or
four years ago. Now we put in a sort of
trial sort of burner into our limekilns where we dry
the agricultural line. Just recently over the winter we upgraded
that burner and now primarily we can run one of
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our rotary calm drivers solely on lentil, so it probably
has whole usage. So I mean, you know, I suppose
there's good for two reasons. One is I don't have
to buy coal, which is kind of good for my accounts.
But on the other side, it's you know, environmentally this
sort of move away from coal and you know, using
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a sort of a biogas created by microbes a sort
of deemed pretty environmentally friendly way of doing it too.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Well, it's outside the square thinking as well. Stave putting
a power plant on.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Yeah, yeah, that's actually been really really exciting. I've just
been working on this this week. Actually there's a guy
here from Australia that's commissioning that plant. So yeah, we
turned that on last Thursday. So essentially it's a big
Veep twenty gas engine sixty liters, so it's an engine
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and it's sort of capable of generating a megawatt of electricity.
So you know, we turned that on and sort of
past week and ran sort of over the weekend, and
you know, it generated enough power probably for quite a
lot of the sort of local community. We're just pushing
it into to our feet aligne that comes up the
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road here and don't quite know where the power ends up.
It'll go to some user somewhere. But yeah, I've been
quite proud of that project. It's yes, pretty high tech,
and yeah, it's been really fun.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I'd imagine it would have been a real hope when
everything started the other day at the opening.
Speaker 7 (24:48):
Yeah, well it just more like it's Yeah, it was
just a quiet kind of thing. Were In fact, the
guy that was commissioning it that it didn't he wasn't
confident that it was going to go first try. He
didn't want too many you're standing there because he was
going to be doing his thing. But I was certainly
there and took a video of it. But it was
pretty uneventful to He's perfectly honest. The start of modeor
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just turned it on like a water tractor engine and
it started doing its things. So we started id all
for a while and geis within probably twenty minutes he
was generating an equal lot of power and pushing it
into the drid. So you're pretty uneventful. Actually, to be
perfectly honest, my video would be pretty boring to well watch.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
So it's pretty cool though, local companies, once again owned
by farmers doing pretty neat things.
Speaker 7 (25:36):
Yeah, yeah, I mean chiefs oh. I think that's the
thing we don't probably give ourselves a lot of credit
for in Southland, where you know, we have got pretty
innovative kind of ways around the district and you know,
this is just another thing. I don't think what we're
doing here is probably not very unusual for a landfield.
You know, there is a lot of explants around the
country that are using electricity while using the Lanthill gas
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and around. Electricity pretty common for lentils such as ourselves.
We just haven't had enough gas coming out of antil
to probably economically warranted until now. But certainly pushing the
gas into the lime films is something that's incredibly efficient.
And you know, I don't know of any other company
around around the New Zealand that's kind of doing that
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and just using it direct firing it like that. It's yeah,
as I say, incredibly efficient and in an excellent way
of handling something that would otherwise actually be quite a
bad greenhouse gas. So yeah, no, we're pretty.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Proud of what we do now.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
As Steve was saying there, Southlanders are understated. I mean
we're not the kind of people to be gone to
the pub at five pm and of Friday drinking decories,
are we No?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
No, definitely not.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
So we look forward to what's happening in the pipeline
with ab line next with you guys, we'll catch up
sooner than lake later or take it a few things
on the horizon.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Yeah, we've got our promo coming up, so I'm hoping
to catch up if you're again in a couple of
weeks and we'll discussle that.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
How good is it just to see a bit of
growth occurring as well after the last six weeks we
can actually carry on with the season now, right, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
The ground conditions are starting to come right and we've
got a lime shed full so we're about to train
into it.
Speaker 8 (27:18):
So that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Hey, Liz Ferns and Steve Smith out of Aby, congratulations,
fantastic to see this initiative up and running and appreciated
the time on the master of this afternoon as always perfect.
Speaker 9 (27:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Liz Ferns and Steve Smith out of ab lime cool
initiative that putting their own power plant in Glynn Burry
is up next and before the end of the yeur
Olivia Weatherburne talking International Rural Women's Day issues. The song
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is Independent Women by Destiny's Child and International Rural Women's Day.
This is the muster on Hakanu our next guess we'll
agree with that title, Lynn Berry, good afternoon.
Speaker 8 (28:14):
Good afternoon. Awesome to see the woman get a day.
It'd been nice to even up a little bit with
a rural Men's Day, because you know, I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Going to say that, I'm glad you did. Why isn't
there an International Men's Day?
Speaker 8 (28:29):
Oh, you know, you probably haven't got a round to
organizing it. Just one of those things.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Probably watching Bathurst instead.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
Exactly exactly, and.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
That ties this in with a bit of a seguey
for our topic today, Bethurist. There was a cardinally get
wiped out by a wallaby or kangaroo towards the end
of the race and the wet Now you went over
to Bethurist, you actually drove that track a wee while ago.
But you want to talk about wallabyes today up in
the Mackenzie Country through South Kentererary, it sounds like they're
becoming a real issue.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (29:00):
Well, I happened to be driving through on the way
to christ Church on Sunday and for a moment there
I thought we were in Australia because we came. Well,
we probably counted about eight to nine dead wallabies on
the side of the road. And I've never in the
whole time that I've driven through that area ever seen
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wallabies lying dead on the side of the road and
at all. So that was the first time I've seen
a wallerby in New Zealand, and in such large numbers
over a short distance.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Why so many of them? Why have they exploded like
a contraception obviously.
Speaker 8 (29:36):
Yeah, Well it's quite interesting. They got introduced into New
Zealand back in eighteen seventy by Old George to George Gray.
They brought in five different species of wallabies for the
fur trade and they were introduced into Down and wy Matty.
They bought three of them down to wy Matty in
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eighteen seventy and they've just you know, ticked away over time.
They've started causing a significant problem back in the nineteen forties.
So down here and in rhode Eru around Rhoda is
another big population that's causing issues nowadays as well, and
they were introduced in nineteen twelve and down up in
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the McKenzie country they actually have a ninety thousand hectare
containment area to try and keep them in there and
they current but the current area that wallabies cover at
the moment is about one point five million hectares around
South Canterbury and they've actually spread a lot in the
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last fifteen years and their numbers have sort of exploded.
They tried to keep them hemmed in in the around
the Rangatiki, Yitaki and Taupo, using the rivers as a border,
but they have been like sneaking over.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
How old do they grow through? How old can they go?
Speaker 8 (31:03):
Oh, they can go through it. They can get to
be about nineteen years old. And they're really quite cool
because they can actually jump about thirteen feet high and
they're quite quick at thirty miles an hour. But what's
interesting is that when a female wallaby reaches about two
years of age, she can start breeding, so she has
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this little Joey, and it only she gests or gestation
periods about twenty eight to thirty days, and it's partially
formed when it's born, but it's got really well developed arms,
and it climbs all the way up into her pouch
because it's partially formed, naked and blind, and then it
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stays in there, hooks onto a teeth and stays in
there for nine months in that pouch. But in the
meantime she can get pregnant again and she can hold
that embryo in you trine for up to a so
it's just floating around inside there, hanging out, waiting for
the other Joey to weaned, to be weaned and kicked out,
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and then she can have another little baby.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
I must stink like a teenager's room, and that pounce
after a.
Speaker 8 (32:14):
While, you would think so, wouldn't buy Crikie. It must
be must have a self cleaning mechanism of some sort.
She probably she probably gets in there and cleans it herself.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Liked there there's no runt cycle coming through from the dishwasher.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
No, definitely not.
Speaker 8 (32:35):
But the biggest problem with them, apart from getting so
some people must have had some pretty banged up cars
if they got whacked one of those wallabies on the road.
But apart from that is that they come out at
night time and they graze at night mainly and hide
away up in the tussocks and the bush blocks and
the pine plantations. But they eat crops, they compete for
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grass paddocks. I saw a video of a farmer up
in Motorua. He went out at night shooting and he
put the light on in his paddock and there were
just hundreds of little eyes and they were all wallabies
that it's been coming out into his paddocks. They nipped
the tops out of any pine trees that have been planted,
and they and the same with any of your natives
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that you're trying to develop around as well. And they
take out your electric fences when you're doing great fencing
because they just hop through them. And that's quite the
pain in the neck when you're trying to break feed animals.
And I've heard people, you know, hunters talking about these
stories about you know, animals coming into areas in different ways,
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but they are classed as an unwanted organism, so you
can't have them as a pet, breed from them. You're
not allowed to sell them and you're not allowed to
move them from one area to another. You're not allowed
to release or exhibit exhibit them without a permit and
if you get caught, that can be up to a
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one hundred thousand dollars fine and or five years imprisonment.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Well Ad South has been very stringent about wallabyes. There
was one scene there at Mosburn whether it had fallen
off the back of a U to what I think
that may have been the answer. But certainly they're very proactive.
Likes of the rock, likes of the wallaby being seen
in the South.
Speaker 8 (34:25):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's they get in there and they
get a foothold. They're just as bad as rabbits, you know,
it's terrible when what the damage that your rabbits do
up around those high country areas, it's seen wallabies that
would be just as bad.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
They go pretty good in pies too, don't they. Wallabies.
Speaker 8 (34:43):
You've got to stop at Wymany because I'm hidden that
way shortly for a wallaby pie, they're actually really nice.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
You haven't actually been to way Mati for a day too,
but you hear about it. I mean you talk about
meat sources. How much meat would you actually get off
one though it wouldn't be a lot.
Speaker 8 (35:00):
Oh well, they can get up to thirty kilos like likewise,
so you know half of that if you if you're
processing them, that's not too bad.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
I imagine. So hey, good on you interesting as always,
appreciate your time. You have a great day, Lundberry talking
about Wallabies or has your ugby team has been known
for the last few years the Wobblies, although they are
progressing better and that's good for international reguy. But nonetheless
we carry on before we wrap up on the muster
(35:31):
for what are we Wednesday? Olivia Weatherburn talking International Rural
Women's Day.
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Speaker 1 (36:04):
Olivia Weatherburn joins us this afternoon on the Muster. Olivia,
good afternoon and happy happy International Rural Women's Day.
Speaker 9 (36:13):
Thank you indebted honor to be a rural woman on
the today.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Well, it's about celebrating everything that is positive with females
in the rural sector. And look, you just think fact
not that many years ago and the opportunities for females
coming into farming were few and far between them for
brutally honest, but the tide has certainly turned.
Speaker 9 (36:33):
It definitely has. Yet there's women taking over leadership roles
everywhere in our sector now, from right through from the shepherds, yeah,
through to our leaders as we look at Kate Action
leading at Beef and Lamb where I work, and many
more in between. And then you see rural women celebrating
one hundred years this year as well. So yeah, we're
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slowly dominating the world.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
But just being involved with agriculture, what is it for
you that you really get a kick out? What is
it that really appeals?
Speaker 9 (37:04):
I think it is just that there is such a
network of people out there, and even though we're all
kind of competing for the same thing, we're all willing
to help each other at the same time. So kind
of like farming, really we're all in the same pot,
but we're all out there to help each other. And
there's such a cool network of women out there that
are there to lift each other up. And there's a
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great event happening in Gore at the moment there with
the Inspiring Women's Event, and it's all about being able
to encourage others and celebrate those women who are doing
amazing things and then take those next steps and evil
people get be in.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
The future as well.
Speaker 9 (37:44):
So I think it's just that big support network that's
around there and take getting away from that as not
just the men that can be those leaders, and we
can have families and we can keep going as well.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
We just look at the moment though, at the Young
farmer movement. This is a perfect example, like the bark
up at Tianaw the other day, and when I speak
to everybody in the Young Farmers slot on the Tuesday,
Certainly once upon a time there weren't a lot of
females involved with Young Farmers just be honest. But you've
got all these young people coming through wanting to get jobs,
get cadet ships, wanting to be involved the rural sector.
(38:17):
Go away Shepherd at Waikaia or up around Central Otago,
the likes and certainly come back on vogue for young
people as far as being a vocational.
Speaker 9 (38:26):
Choice, definitely. And do you look at even the Young
Farmers clubs for how they're made up now and the
percentage of women to the males in those clubs and
the lead and some of the leaders in those and
how it has changed. There's more inviting now you've got
the likes of growing future farmers. Is taking on those
who potentially you've never had the opportunity to come through
with a farming background, to be able to get involved
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and able to go out and live those dreams there
they see on the country calendars or the lakes and
get out there into the high country, especially in that
Waikai area that you speak of, and yet go and
get off horse and the dog and get out there
and be part of it. I can remember when I
first started many moons ago, probably here it probably was
about twenty so years ago now that I was shifting,
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and there was very few women involved, and we did
feel a little bit of imposter syndrome then and there
is still that there. But there's so many support networks
out there and enablement of people to be able to
get out there and do it. And the training that
is getting there and hopefully is only going to improve
with the new Training Act schemes that are out there
now and hope we're working on that. There's an industry
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to try and keep improving that as well. But there
are definitely lots of opportunities, and I don't think it's
a strange thing now for a women to be heard
around many tables and on many farms.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
It certainly come a long way from New Zealand being
the first country in the world to give females the vote.
Speaker 9 (39:50):
Definitely, yeah, And there's look at the amount of females
we see in politics now and whether some of them
should be there or not, it's another thing, but there's
there's so many different ways and that we've been able
to get there. And it's not saying that women need
to be in charge of everything either, but it's a
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diversity around a table and having more diverse boards, having
more diverse conversations, and you just put these into aspect
aspects and like you look at some of the I
look at the Enzac parades and that that usually have
been in the past dominated by males and usually very
aged ones. And if we don't get young people in there,
(40:34):
like a young woman who there were the women who
went to war, and that as well is a prime examples,
then we lose that. So it's making sure there's diversity.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Around those tables a great example as well. You talk about,
of course yourself being involved with the balf Of Fire Brigate.
Back in the day there was virtually no females. But
it's certainly good to see a lot more of them
prepared to put their hand up and get involved and
they're accepted too, and so they should be exactly.
Speaker 9 (41:00):
Yeah, yeah, I can remember when I do in Balfad
it was there was I think there was one other
female there and then yeah, when I went to Mosborone
there was only one as well. But we have come
over the Waikaia and half the brigade is female. And yeah,
there's obviously has its challenges as well, but at the
same time it keeps it enables so many different aspects, challenges, conversations,
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and there's so many different abilities that we bring to
things as well.
Speaker 8 (41:27):
I don't think it matters what sex you are.
Speaker 9 (41:28):
You're capable of.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Anything, absolutely, Olivia. Look, we'll let you carry on. You
got a lot on your plate this afternoon, but you
always appreciate your time and like you say, happy Happy
International Woman's Day.
Speaker 9 (41:38):
Great to chat go, Thanks Andy, and just a shout
out to all the royal women out there. Keep being
the great people that you are.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
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good to have your back. How do we go?
Speaker 6 (43:11):
Yes, Good afternoon, every one, Good afternoon listeners. Well, a
beautiful morning down here at the bell Cliff the Saiyards.
It's done as out. Positivity is high and it makes
a pleasant change from the cold, rainy bits and pieces
that's come through for the last few days. So positivity
is high. We had a medium yarding of stock and
at the bell Cliff the Sailyards today didn't break any numbers,
(43:34):
any records in terms of numbers presented. However, prices were
very good. Prime lamb market continues to increase. Our large
lambs making between two seventy and three hundred and ten
dollars today, mediums two twenty to two fifty and you're
light at end. Prime lamb around one hundred and fifty
to two hundred dollars mark. Please note these are getting
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mouthed at the yards. Just with the time of year
lambs just undercut teeth and then going into that hogit
sort of two both class stool ams again the same
risk with the markets trending downward. Still not bad money
for your excuse me, better end store lams ranging from
one hundred and forty to one sixty, mediums one hundred,
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one hundred and forty dollars and your mediums or your
smaller end fifty to eighty dollars. Look, they are trending
downwards just due to that time of year when new
season lambs are coming on and people taking a punt
with these ones cracking teeth.
Speaker 7 (44:31):
Use.
Speaker 6 (44:32):
Well, here's the positive market here. That market continues to
increase a larger yarding of using today wet rise mainly
making anyway from a top end one hundred and eighty
to around that two thirty dollar mark, mediums one thirty
to one seventy, and your smaller end you are in
a fifty to one hundred dollar mar just a handful
of rams. They continue to trade well somewhere in between
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that's seventy to eighty dollar mark. And just to continue
off here with the good work that Warrik, how we
he's done on this program over the years. We do
have a tip of the week. We've got one here
at in the Cargo tomorrow, so that's Invercargo tomorrow, Race seven,
number four and bowl them over. I've heard that is
the one to bet, paying around seven dollars at the moment,
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So hopefully we can start while we run here with
the winner. That would be pretty positive. That sort of
sums it all up. From a sunny bill coover.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
Right, Russ, So who would you rather put your money on?
The nags are on the Otago team doing the damage
over Bop on Friday.
Speaker 6 (45:29):
Off, Look what a game. Let's mix it up and
put it in a MOLTI. That's how confident I am
Tago to do a number on bout NYG. That's awesome
to see them go. That's far. Put it in a
multi bowl them over, a race seven and a Targo
to win. You can think me come Monday.
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Mars Flat and joins us once again. James, good afternoon,
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how are you. How's the battle?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
It's going well actually at the moment. We're nice and
green in my grand grass now, which is quite a pleasure.
So no hes uh seventy six he days of various
crops gone in so far, so getting through the groundwork.
So I think we've got another forty or soto of
the blackground to do, so yeah, getting well through that now.
(02:48):
And we've got a bit of tailing to do. And
I'm doing some deer work today, so bring all the
hons in and put them in their falling blocks. I
still actually gave the phones on them because I don't
have enough. I'll rip them off and start velveting today too.
So yeah, it's always good when it's all going.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
You're doing well to get through the ground where it
considering the season.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, I'm not saying we got perfectly. We dragged strict,
drilled straight into the blackground this year because it was
such a dry winter. Haven't made too much of a mess.
And yeah, I don't know, there'll be there'll be various
opinions there and bends all the easier, absolutely advocate of
the playwal and but on especially had loighter soils on
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hill your country, I mean the Panics out late anyway,
And yeah, I just like to get the crops in,
so possibly count in a few corners. But yeah, I
find we don't get there sometimes when you get rain
events and you've worked the soil up on sort of
you know, hill country, it runs off into the creeks
and things. So yeah, there's a variety of reasons we
do it, and not a five minute job to work
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up work up one hundred hectares either, So yes, the
way we choose to do it. So we'll see how
how the results pain out, I suppose.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
So you're tailing tellies today, how they be? Are you happy?
You're never happy with tailing, must be honest.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Yeah, no, I thought I thought they looked pretty solid. Actually,
is what I think. We'd be a lot better, a
lot further up than last year. Last year. Last year
just kept getting worse as you kept going through the
tailing tellies. It was just the lambs weren't adding up,
and you knew you hadn't had a very good year
and it only got worse. That wasn't much fun. So
hopefully we go the other way this year. But I
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don't think we'll set any records, but it'll be yeah,
just what we need to be fear, just a nice
solid tailing.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Benison's schedules are looking pretty darn good.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, well it's lovely. We had the beef and AMAJM
yesterday and yeah, all the red meat prices are gone
game busters at the moment, which is which is great.
They've sort of probably been a reflection of the whole
world went. You know, I've got a lot more environmentally friendly,
which we all agree with. But one of the pecks
there is with the carbon and methane and all the
(05:03):
other things, it's been a massive dropping livestock numbers around
the whole world. So when they're starting to really see
that reflected in schedule process, so I guess there's a
silver lining and all the stuff we had to deal
with a few years ago.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
And well remember this, James, six months ago, you're the
guy walking around with a T shirt Elemant, we needed
ten dollars for LAMB. We've currently got that. Have you
changed your chain?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
No?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Absolutely not. In fact, it's actually got better than that,
because I think I said twelve dollars top of the
season and ten dollars bottom, and I think we're currently
sitting just over eleven dollars for LAMB. I'm here in
the markets are paying that, so that's good and well,
it'll be interesting to see with the companies where I
think it's probably a reflection not keeping the chains falls
(05:52):
they're not making money, but because they can't really fill
the contracts for the guys that want all their meats. No,
I think that's the number we've got to have to
be feared. Really changes sheep farming really quickly. Sheep and
beef farming those sort of prices. So it lets us
let us compete with forestry and carbon farming, and lets
us compete on the right country with dairy farming too
(06:13):
and dairy support. So that's really exciting.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
We'll talk about the beef and lambs Southern South Island.
Agm usaid, of course you were there. You've been part
of the council. Full credit as well to term fit
see from back in the day to clear fi Owa
met and everybody. Great afternoon, put on really interesting speakers
and just overall the positivity regarding what's happening in the sector.
I think it needs to be acknowledged.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yeah, absolutely that it was really good. I thought kateick
Clinton she was a bit of a highlight of thought
in person. She came off really well, really smart woman,
so shit out there and the work they did in
behind with the grass and the reason why the prices
were high, and that was a really really positive day
actually lest there thinking, yeah, willing to put the last
(06:59):
five to see and all the things because you you know,
you just felt you felt enthusiastic and excited, which we
should as an industry. Yeah, I have to being sort
of attacked on all sides. But no, that profitability thing
hare's been a number one, number one thing to work
on and now we're back. You know, I just don't
think you'll see the same amount of trees going around.
(07:20):
Is the better farmers keep getting better, they'll be you know,
looking to expand or doing different bits and pieces. So
that's really exciting Tom to be a farmer. Andy.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I think the only thing perhaps concerning regarding Kate's figures though,
was if we were to have a change of government
next year, listening to Damian O'Connor and what happens in
regards of these new new me saying targets that Nationals
and the Coalition government has introduced, and what gets undone
then and what goes on Because the figure was banded
(07:50):
around twenty percent of sheep and beef farm goes x
amount of dairy farms. But I don't know. Labor just
don't seem to acknowledge that.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
No, they tried very hard to make us go broke
not very long ago, didn't they, Andy. So I think
you would find a slightly more family, farmer friendly labor government, because, yeah,
the towns are still hurting. You really need the rural
sector to be strong so we can feed it all
back through our local rural communities and then that gets
fed back through the cities. And I think that's what
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we'll find. So I'm probably slightly more optimistic than that.
But yeah, sometimes sometimes it's nice just to enjoy a
nice day on the farm and not think too many politics, Andy,
because it's pretty hard to make change, isn't it, I guess,
And someone's just going to control what you can control.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, probably a pretty pragmatic way to look at things
as well. We'll touching this briefly to the ge bill.
The conversation was had yesterday and a gentleman in the
crowd they asked for a show of hands regarding who
supported it going through, and it seemed to be about
fifty to fifty. It was a very random poll considering
where it was taken, but it's certainly something that continues
to divide.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah, no, it was. There's a few questions from the
crowd around around the GE. Probably there pointed towards a
negative view of it, I guess, And yeah, my viewer
is you can't change science. That's not to say we're
going to do it, but you've got to look at
all science and look at all technology and keep moving forward.
(09:19):
I mean, there was a real worry in the room
that roost of the world wouldn't take care of product
if it had some GE involved in it. I guess
that's not a worry for me. If you look at
the US and Australia, most of the crops in the
world are all GE crops grown. So it would be
a little bit ironic for those markets to turn around
and say new i's GE, so we don't want your
(09:40):
product because all the local product is a g of
some description. I thought they were worried about the value
premiums around GE and if there was none, why are
we doing it? And I think the point was misty.
The real advantage of GE, in my mind, is not
so much in the animal science world. It's actually in
(10:02):
the plant science, like if we can get like a
rye grass plant that is more resistant to a grass
grubb or perina or heads lease or you know, stays
doesn't go reproductive as much all of the above, that's
where I see the real benefit of the rye grass.
Well the other plant science ge debate, Yeah, just using
(10:26):
less LEAs chemicals which would drop farm costs. Yeah, by
using those products. So that's that's my my five cents
on that. But I mean, yeah, I'd like to see
some more more information and more science before I fully
made my mind up. But you know, I'm certainly opening
and open to the idea of this ge rye grass.
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I think he's on scientists. They're actually doing somebody. They
have to go overseas to do their trials. I don't
think I'm wrong on that one. So yeah, it'll be interesting.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Just finally, you're a tiger's got to do the best
us over a bath plenty on Friday night.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
You're giving me a bit of cheek there. When you
won the rent the Mighty self and stags, I thought
you turned the corner of it. No, ye're the mighty.
The mighty looks like she's going to go all the way.
If you asked me put the house on it.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Well I wouldn't. I wouldn't exactly put the house on it.
But we'll see here we might put some methane targets
on it and stead a James, So you always appreciate
your time.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Cheers and.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
James Egger of Moa Flat. You're listening to the muster.
Up next, Jared Stockman alderian Z, thanks for joining us
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on the muster. The theme today is Woman the Fair
of Sex. It is a International Rural Women's Day. That
song there by the Beeg is more than a woman
from staying from staying Alive. That was a spin off
movie from Saturday Night Fever featuring John Travolta and all
his bell bottom singing glory, I suppose for want of
(12:15):
a better word. As we catch up next with Jared
Stockman out of Dairy and Zed, Jared, Good, afternoon.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Afternoon, Andy, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Look, we're seeing a bit of sunshine finally, long way
it continue, but it's been a bit of a stretch
over the last few weeks.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Yeah, here's Andy. Look, we've we've had a ton of rain,
but we have been saved by a bit of sunshine
and wind, but still challenging to get tricked as on
peddex and get that ground week done. So yeah, just
need maybe another week of this and we'll be into it.
But Tay, the grass is growing, cows, a bean milk
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and producing some really good results, so it's not all bad.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
So production doesn't seem to be back too much from
what you've said.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
No, I think it's I think it's up on last year,
and to be fair, that's probably not hard given the
spring we head. But I think you know, most of
the farmers we're talking to, you know, two point two
kilos and above summers hires two point eight. So yeah,
things that things are going pretty good.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Peak milk flow happening in the next few weeks as well.
I've just been that time of year now. Derrian's had
always something going on. You've had a couple of events
over the past week or two.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Yeah, we have. Last few days have been really cool.
Yesterday we're out at Stephen and Haley Clark's at Brighton.
Look very great example of growing in maximizing past year
and it's kind of highlighted there feeding about fifteen ton
of home ground past year, you know, two to three
kilos or something through the shed and essentially that's translating
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into about six thousand operating profit two heat year, which
is you know, which is really up there. But combined
with that, Stephen rinks from an emissions point of view,
you know, the best twenty percent in Southland. So it
kind of just highlights that you can do both. And
Steven's really aware of his you know, his social license
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in the area, particularly around the Edendalek Offer and it
does look a really good job and it's just an
absolute girl on passing management. And then this morning we've
been at Luke and gen Templeton's and Riverton. You know,
Luke's well known and fifth generation on their farm, their
environment leader, part of the Southern are have and the
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Ace Catchment group and lake feeds you know slightly least
hoone ground pasture but in a little bit more supplements.
But again operating profits over you know, five thousand height
dere and look the stuff that he does on farm
from an environmental point of view, you know, wetlands lower
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emissions and stuff is really good and Luke Luke does
it not because he has to is being told to
it he wants to do it. So we've yeah, just
a couple of really great field days that we've had
and again just demonstrating that very profitable businesses can still
meet farmer mission goals.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Just how hard is it though, to reach these A
mission targets, Darry? What are these people doing differently?
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Look if you look at Stephen, like, you know, he's
got he's got a extra plantain. He's part of our
during plantain target which has shown some good, good nitrate reductions,
which is perfect in his area because he's very aware
that you know, runoff feeds and feed and are equator equifers.
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So you know they seeminly want to do his but there.
But you know, if you look at the latest the
government announcement, you know, thank goodness, sanity has prevailed and
and we've got a lower a lower sort of target
for twenty fifty that kind of more aligns with the
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later science you know on methane, you know, on the
methane warming impact. But look, these targets are still going
to be challenging with their new mitigation tools and strategies,
and so you know, as an organization, we're continuing to
push for faster research and development, and you know, we
just have to continue to work with government and partners
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to make sure that, you know, any targets are implemented
in a way that's practical. Interview for farmers.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, you mentioned senity there, but perhaps because they've only
got a year out to the next election, it could
be called or terms interim senency given that there's still
a lot of uncertainty around the next government make up too.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Yeah, there is, And you know, I guess we have
to be cautiously optimistic that the steps that are been
put in now are going to continue on because you know,
a lot of the stuff is science and research back
and so you know, I guess you know, if future
politicians are thinking they're better than science and research, then
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you know, that's a question I guess the voters will
will have to answer. But you know, I just I
just hope they're regulators in policy, both local and central
government really understand that, you know, farmers are really aware
of their their social license. They play a huge part
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of their economy. Any any rules and regulations that are implemented,
they need to be practical and people need to understand
that farmers are having to make decisions months and months
out and and kind of years out. So you know,
a flip of a pen can have a you know,
can have a devastating an impact on on farmers, both
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both here in South and right through the country. So
I just think we need to be really conscious that,
you know, make sure that we're have got a good
fear balance and that farmers can practically, you know, implement
some of the stuff that.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
The face with dared. Would you say the opposition though,
is not really in a position to recognize the work
going on in New Zealand agriculture regarding mission reduction.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Yeah, it's an interesting question. I think I think, you know,
I think they need to. I think they probably just
need to publicly acknowledge that farmers are doing a good job.
And you know, any any policy that comes out needs
to be fear and practical because you know, like I said,
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farmers want to do the right thing. So it's a
it's a tough thing. I try, I do try and
steer away from politics, but you know, but because we
have to, you know, we have to engage with whoever's.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
In the time.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
And so I guess from you know, I guess from
my point of view as we just we just really
want to see farmers treated fairly. We want we know
that the vast majority ninety nine are doing the right
thing day in and day out, and we just need
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to work out how we can support them. And you know,
there's a lot of rules in life, and I saw
a great thing. You know, probably something Carrie peck has
said in front of an audience number of years ago,
but you know his view was that if Parliament or
or counsel are looking to introduce a new rule, then
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they should repeal something else. So, you know, I think
we've got enough rules in life, so if you're going
to introduce something new, then repeal something old. So that's
my that's my two cents on that.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
That's your Kemp Brockman for today. But it's really well
appreciated and speaking a lot of sense that will resonate
for a lot of people. Jared Stockman, thanks for your
time once again on the Muster.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Jeez Andy, Thanks talking night.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Jared Stockman of Derry and Z Before the end of
the Yell of Lynn Burry Up next day, Liz Ferns
and Steve Smith from aby Line, Welcome back to the Muster.
(20:35):
Time to catch up with Liz Ferns and Steve Smith,
both of ab Lyme. We're catching out this afternoon talking
about some pretty cool things that have been going on
with the team there. Liz and Steve.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
Good afternoon, Good afternoon, Good afternoon, Andy.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Liz will talk to you first, having to bring the
boss and to help you out what's going on there.
You're pretty good in the segment happened in the past. Yeah,
I know, I know.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Sorry, thanks, these things that he does his projects, I
thought maybe he said he's better to talk to them
about yet.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, fair enough. Now Steve, you're the one who can
talk about the landfill there at av Line. Are you
even pretty busy in that space by the sounds of it.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
Yeah, Look, there's always plenty going on with a lentil
they're kind of pretty technically advanced, and yeah they take
it a week at of managing. But you know, there's
there's the opportunity, I suppose for a lot of innovation
and stuff. So we're yeah, there's sort of you know,
some byproducts that come off the landfill, lentil gas and
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some of those kinds of things which are obviously incredibly
useful to be used as a resource. So we've been
working away pretty curiously on Donat.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Obviously the landfill's going on there, I'm sure a bit
about it and the purpose regarding it.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Yeah, So, I mean we're just part of I suppose
of the Southland's kind of waste infrastructure. So you know,
everybody that's got a curbside bendness there in town or
you know, skip business, they're on a farm. You know,
all of those kind of wastes that are not deemed
recycling or some other clean field type material generally make
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their way out to av lime here and we're going
to put a big synthetically lined sort of landfill here,
and you know, the ability to take all of those
kind of products I suppose, if you want to call
them that that are at the end of life and
somebody who just wants to get rid of them, so
we put them in a fully symptotically mind hole here
that hopefully won't affect the environment any way ever in
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the future, and you can get rid of them on
half of our community.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
They were drying the line as well, using the guests
to do that. That's a great initiative.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
Yeah, yeah, we've just we've been trialing that actually for
quite a number of years. We probably maybe three or
four years ago. Now we put in a sort of
trial sort of burner into our limekilns where we dry
the agricultural line. Just recently over the winter we upgraded
that burner and now primarily we can run one of
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our rotary calm drivers solely on lentil, so it probably
has whole usage. So I mean, you know, I suppose
there's good for two reasons. One is I don't have
to buy coal, which is kind of good for my accounts.
But on the other side, it's you know, environmentally this
sort of move away from coal and you know, using
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a sort of a biogas created by microbes a sort
of deemed pretty environmentally friendly way of doing it too.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Well, it's outside the square thinking as well. Stave putting
a power plant on.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Yeah, yeah, that's actually been really really exciting. I've just
been working on this this week. Actually there's a guy
here from Australia that's commissioning that plant. So yeah, we
turned that on last Thursday. So essentially it's a big
Veep twenty gas engine sixty liters, so it's an engine
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and it's sort of capable of generating a megawatt of electricity.
So you know, we turned that on and sort of
past week and ran sort of over the weekend, and
you know, it generated enough power probably for quite a
lot of the sort of local community. We're just pushing
it into to our feet aligne that comes up the
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road here and don't quite know where the power ends up.
It'll go to some user somewhere. But yeah, I've been
quite proud of that project. It's yes, pretty high tech,
and yeah, it's been really fun.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I'd imagine it would have been a real hope when
everything started the other day at the opening.
Speaker 7 (24:48):
Yeah, well it just more like it's Yeah, it was
just a quiet kind of thing. Were In fact, the
guy that was commissioning it that it didn't he wasn't
confident that it was going to go first try. He
didn't want too many you're standing there because he was
going to be doing his thing. But I was certainly
there and took a video of it. But it was
pretty uneventful to He's perfectly honest. The start of modeor
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just turned it on like a water tractor engine and
it started doing its things. So we started id all
for a while and geis within probably twenty minutes he
was generating an equal lot of power and pushing it
into the drid. So you're pretty uneventful. Actually, to be
perfectly honest, my video would be pretty boring to well watch.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
So it's pretty cool though, local companies, once again owned
by farmers doing pretty neat things.
Speaker 7 (25:36):
Yeah, yeah, I mean chiefs oh. I think that's the
thing we don't probably give ourselves a lot of credit
for in Southland, where you know, we have got pretty
innovative kind of ways around the district and you know,
this is just another thing. I don't think what we're
doing here is probably not very unusual for a landfield.
You know, there is a lot of explants around the
country that are using electricity while using the Lanthill gas
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and around. Electricity pretty common for lentils such as ourselves.
We just haven't had enough gas coming out of antil
to probably economically warranted until now. But certainly pushing the
gas into the lime films is something that's incredibly efficient.
And you know, I don't know of any other company
around around the New Zealand that's kind of doing that
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and just using it direct firing it like that. It's yeah,
as I say, incredibly efficient and in an excellent way
of handling something that would otherwise actually be quite a
bad greenhouse gas. So yeah, no, we're pretty.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Proud of what we do now.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
As Steve was saying there, Southlanders are understated. I mean
we're not the kind of people to be gone to
the pub at five pm and of Friday drinking decories,
are we No?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
No, definitely not.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
So we look forward to what's happening in the pipeline
with ab line next with you guys, we'll catch up
sooner than lake later or take it a few things
on the horizon.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Yeah, we've got our promo coming up, so I'm hoping
to catch up if you're again in a couple of
weeks and we'll discussle that.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
How good is it just to see a bit of
growth occurring as well after the last six weeks we
can actually carry on with the season now, right, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
The ground conditions are starting to come right and we've
got a lime shed full so we're about to train
into it.
Speaker 8 (27:18):
So that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Hey, Liz Ferns and Steve Smith out of Aby, congratulations,
fantastic to see this initiative up and running and appreciated
the time on the master of this afternoon as always perfect.
Speaker 9 (27:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Liz Ferns and Steve Smith out of ab lime cool
initiative that putting their own power plant in Glynn Burry
is up next and before the end of the yeur
Olivia Weatherburne talking International Rural Women's Day issues. The song
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is Independent Women by Destiny's Child and International Rural Women's Day.
This is the muster on Hakanu our next guess we'll
agree with that title, Lynn Berry, good afternoon.
Speaker 8 (28:14):
Good afternoon. Awesome to see the woman get a day.
It'd been nice to even up a little bit with
a rural Men's Day, because you know, I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Going to say that, I'm glad you did. Why isn't
there an International Men's Day?
Speaker 8 (28:29):
Oh, you know, you probably haven't got a round to
organizing it. Just one of those things.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Probably watching Bathurst instead.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
Exactly exactly, and.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
That ties this in with a bit of a seguey
for our topic today, Bethurist. There was a cardinally get
wiped out by a wallaby or kangaroo towards the end
of the race and the wet Now you went over
to Bethurist, you actually drove that track a wee while ago.
But you want to talk about wallabyes today up in
the Mackenzie Country through South Kentererary, it sounds like they're
becoming a real issue.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (29:00):
Well, I happened to be driving through on the way
to christ Church on Sunday and for a moment there
I thought we were in Australia because we came. Well,
we probably counted about eight to nine dead wallabies on
the side of the road. And I've never in the
whole time that I've driven through that area ever seen
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wallabies lying dead on the side of the road and
at all. So that was the first time I've seen
a wallerby in New Zealand, and in such large numbers
over a short distance.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Why so many of them? Why have they exploded like
a contraception obviously.
Speaker 8 (29:36):
Yeah, Well it's quite interesting. They got introduced into New
Zealand back in eighteen seventy by Old George to George Gray.
They brought in five different species of wallabies for the
fur trade and they were introduced into Down and wy Matty.
They bought three of them down to wy Matty in
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eighteen seventy and they've just you know, ticked away over time.
They've started causing a significant problem back in the nineteen forties.
So down here and in rhode Eru around Rhoda is
another big population that's causing issues nowadays as well, and
they were introduced in nineteen twelve and down up in
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the McKenzie country they actually have a ninety thousand hectare
containment area to try and keep them in there and
they current but the current area that wallabies cover at
the moment is about one point five million hectares around
South Canterbury and they've actually spread a lot in the
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last fifteen years and their numbers have sort of exploded.
They tried to keep them hemmed in in the around
the Rangatiki, Yitaki and Taupo, using the rivers as a border,
but they have been like sneaking over.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
How old do they grow through? How old can they go?
Speaker 8 (31:03):
Oh, they can go through it. They can get to
be about nineteen years old. And they're really quite cool
because they can actually jump about thirteen feet high and
they're quite quick at thirty miles an hour. But what's
interesting is that when a female wallaby reaches about two
years of age, she can start breeding, so she has
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this little Joey, and it only she gests or gestation
periods about twenty eight to thirty days, and it's partially
formed when it's born, but it's got really well developed arms,
and it climbs all the way up into her pouch
because it's partially formed, naked and blind, and then it
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stays in there, hooks onto a teeth and stays in
there for nine months in that pouch. But in the
meantime she can get pregnant again and she can hold
that embryo in you trine for up to a so
it's just floating around inside there, hanging out, waiting for
the other Joey to weaned, to be weaned and kicked out,
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and then she can have another little baby.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
I must stink like a teenager's room, and that pounce
after a.
Speaker 8 (32:14):
While, you would think so, wouldn't buy Crikie. It must
be must have a self cleaning mechanism of some sort.
She probably she probably gets in there and cleans it herself.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Liked there there's no runt cycle coming through from the dishwasher.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
No, definitely not.
Speaker 8 (32:35):
But the biggest problem with them, apart from getting so
some people must have had some pretty banged up cars
if they got whacked one of those wallabies on the road.
But apart from that is that they come out at
night time and they graze at night mainly and hide
away up in the tussocks and the bush blocks and
the pine plantations. But they eat crops, they compete for
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grass paddocks. I saw a video of a farmer up
in Motorua. He went out at night shooting and he
put the light on in his paddock and there were
just hundreds of little eyes and they were all wallabies
that it's been coming out into his paddocks. They nipped
the tops out of any pine trees that have been planted,
and they and the same with any of your natives
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that you're trying to develop around as well. And they
take out your electric fences when you're doing great fencing
because they just hop through them. And that's quite the
pain in the neck when you're trying to break feed animals.
And I've heard people, you know, hunters talking about these
stories about you know, animals coming into areas in different ways,
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but they are classed as an unwanted organism, so you
can't have them as a pet, breed from them. You're
not allowed to sell them and you're not allowed to
move them from one area to another. You're not allowed
to release or exhibit exhibit them without a permit and
if you get caught, that can be up to a
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one hundred thousand dollars fine and or five years imprisonment.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Well Ad South has been very stringent about wallabyes. There
was one scene there at Mosburn whether it had fallen
off the back of a U to what I think
that may have been the answer. But certainly they're very proactive.
Likes of the rock, likes of the wallaby being seen
in the South.
Speaker 8 (34:25):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's they get in there and they
get a foothold. They're just as bad as rabbits, you know,
it's terrible when what the damage that your rabbits do
up around those high country areas, it's seen wallabies that
would be just as bad.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
They go pretty good in pies too, don't they. Wallabies.
Speaker 8 (34:43):
You've got to stop at Wymany because I'm hidden that
way shortly for a wallaby pie, they're actually really nice.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
You haven't actually been to way Mati for a day too,
but you hear about it. I mean you talk about
meat sources. How much meat would you actually get off
one though it wouldn't be a lot.
Speaker 8 (35:00):
Oh well, they can get up to thirty kilos like likewise,
so you know half of that if you if you're
processing them, that's not too bad.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
I imagine. So hey, good on you interesting as always,
appreciate your time. You have a great day, Lundberry talking
about Wallabies or has your ugby team has been known
for the last few years the Wobblies, although they are
progressing better and that's good for international reguy. But nonetheless
we carry on before we wrap up on the muster
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for what are we Wednesday? Olivia Weatherburn talking International Rural
Women's Day.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
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in Lawnville, Gord Cromwell, Milton and Ranfilly dropped by your
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Speaker 1 (36:04):
Olivia Weatherburn joins us this afternoon on the Muster. Olivia,
good afternoon and happy happy International Rural Women's Day.
Speaker 9 (36:13):
Thank you indebted honor to be a rural woman on
the today.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Well, it's about celebrating everything that is positive with females
in the rural sector. And look, you just think fact
not that many years ago and the opportunities for females
coming into farming were few and far between them for
brutally honest, but the tide has certainly turned.
Speaker 9 (36:33):
It definitely has. Yet there's women taking over leadership roles
everywhere in our sector now, from right through from the shepherds, yeah,
through to our leaders as we look at Kate Action
leading at Beef and Lamb where I work, and many
more in between. And then you see rural women celebrating
one hundred years this year as well. So yeah, we're
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slowly dominating the world.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
But just being involved with agriculture, what is it for
you that you really get a kick out? What is
it that really appeals?
Speaker 9 (37:04):
I think it is just that there is such a
network of people out there, and even though we're all
kind of competing for the same thing, we're all willing
to help each other at the same time. So kind
of like farming, really we're all in the same pot,
but we're all out there to help each other. And
there's such a cool network of women out there that
are there to lift each other up. And there's a
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great event happening in Gore at the moment there with
the Inspiring Women's Event, and it's all about being able
to encourage others and celebrate those women who are doing
amazing things and then take those next steps and evil
people get be in.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
The future as well.
Speaker 9 (37:44):
So I think it's just that big support network that's
around there and take getting away from that as not
just the men that can be those leaders, and we
can have families and we can keep going as well.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
We just look at the moment though, at the Young
farmer movement. This is a perfect example, like the bark
up at Tianaw the other day, and when I speak
to everybody in the Young Farmers slot on the Tuesday,
Certainly once upon a time there weren't a lot of
females involved with Young Farmers just be honest. But you've
got all these young people coming through wanting to get jobs,
get cadet ships, wanting to be involved the rural sector.
(38:17):
Go away Shepherd at Waikaia or up around Central Otago,
the likes and certainly come back on vogue for young
people as far as being a vocational.
Speaker 9 (38:26):
Choice, definitely. And do you look at even the Young
Farmers clubs for how they're made up now and the
percentage of women to the males in those clubs and
the lead and some of the leaders in those and
how it has changed. There's more inviting now you've got
the likes of growing future farmers. Is taking on those
who potentially you've never had the opportunity to come through
with a farming background, to be able to get involved
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and able to go out and live those dreams there
they see on the country calendars or the lakes and
get out there into the high country, especially in that
Waikai area that you speak of, and yet go and
get off horse and the dog and get out there
and be part of it. I can remember when I
first started many moons ago, probably here it probably was
about twenty so years ago now that I was shifting,
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and there was very few women involved, and we did
feel a little bit of imposter syndrome then and there
is still that there. But there's so many support networks
out there and enablement of people to be able to
get out there and do it. And the training that
is getting there and hopefully is only going to improve
with the new Training Act schemes that are out there
now and hope we're working on that. There's an industry
(39:32):
to try and keep improving that as well. But there
are definitely lots of opportunities, and I don't think it's
a strange thing now for a women to be heard
around many tables and on many farms.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
It certainly come a long way from New Zealand being
the first country in the world to give females the vote.
Speaker 9 (39:50):
Definitely, yeah, And there's look at the amount of females
we see in politics now and whether some of them
should be there or not, it's another thing, but there's
there's so many different ways and that we've been able
to get there. And it's not saying that women need
to be in charge of everything either, but it's a
(40:11):
diversity around a table and having more diverse boards, having
more diverse conversations, and you just put these into aspect
aspects and like you look at some of the I
look at the Enzac parades and that that usually have
been in the past dominated by males and usually very
aged ones. And if we don't get young people in there,
(40:34):
like a young woman who there were the women who
went to war, and that as well is a prime examples,
then we lose that. So it's making sure there's diversity.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Around those tables a great example as well. You talk about,
of course yourself being involved with the balf Of Fire Brigate.
Back in the day there was virtually no females. But
it's certainly good to see a lot more of them
prepared to put their hand up and get involved and
they're accepted too, and so they should be exactly.
Speaker 9 (41:00):
Yeah, yeah, I can remember when I do in Balfad
it was there was I think there was one other
female there and then yeah, when I went to Mosborone
there was only one as well. But we have come
over the Waikaia and half the brigade is female. And yeah,
there's obviously has its challenges as well, but at the
same time it keeps it enables so many different aspects, challenges, conversations,
(41:23):
and there's so many different abilities that we bring to
things as well.
Speaker 8 (41:27):
I don't think it matters what sex you are.
Speaker 9 (41:28):
You're capable of.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Anything, absolutely, Olivia. Look, we'll let you carry on. You
got a lot on your plate this afternoon, but you
always appreciate your time and like you say, happy Happy
International Woman's Day.
Speaker 9 (41:38):
Great to chat go, Thanks Andy, and just a shout
out to all the royal women out there. Keep being
the great people that you are.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
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A grizzard old sea captain walks into a bath of
peg leg and I patch and a hook for a hand.
He orders a drink and the bartender curiously starts asking questions.
He asked, how'd you lose your leg? Captain? Ah, I
was chasing the great white whale lad dangerous business. Bartender
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he goes, wow, Then how'd you lose your eye? And
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Captain goes, yeah, it was me first day with the hook.
Just do that in a pirate voice. Ignore the obviously. Hey,
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(43:03):
this morning at the Bellcluther Siyards. Russell Maloney is back
on the tools to give us a rundown on prices. Russell,
good to have your back. How do we go?
Speaker 6 (43:11):
Yes, Good afternoon, every one, Good afternoon listeners. Well, a
beautiful morning down here at the bell Cliff the Saiyards.
It's done as out. Positivity is high and it makes
a pleasant change from the cold, rainy bits and pieces
that's come through for the last few days. So positivity
is high. We had a medium yarding of stock and
at the bell Cliff the Sailyards today didn't break any numbers,
(43:34):
any records in terms of numbers presented. However, prices were
very good. Prime lamb market continues to increase. Our large
lambs making between two seventy and three hundred and ten
dollars today, mediums two twenty to two fifty and you're
light at end. Prime lamb around one hundred and fifty
to two hundred dollars mark. Please note these are getting
(43:56):
mouthed at the yards. Just with the time of year
lambs just undercut teeth and then going into that hogit
sort of two both class stool ams again the same
risk with the markets trending downward. Still not bad money
for your excuse me, better end store lams ranging from
one hundred and forty to one sixty, mediums one hundred,
(44:16):
one hundred and forty dollars and your mediums or your
smaller end fifty to eighty dollars. Look, they are trending
downwards just due to that time of year when new
season lambs are coming on and people taking a punt
with these ones cracking teeth.
Speaker 7 (44:31):
Use.
Speaker 6 (44:32):
Well, here's the positive market here. That market continues to
increase a larger yarding of using today wet rise mainly
making anyway from a top end one hundred and eighty
to around that two thirty dollar mark, mediums one thirty
to one seventy, and your smaller end you are in
a fifty to one hundred dollar mar just a handful
of rams. They continue to trade well somewhere in between
(44:54):
that's seventy to eighty dollar mark. And just to continue
off here with the good work that Warrik, how we
he's done on this program over the years. We do
have a tip of the week. We've got one here
at in the Cargo tomorrow, so that's Invercargo tomorrow, Race seven,
number four and bowl them over. I've heard that is
the one to bet, paying around seven dollars at the moment,
(45:15):
So hopefully we can start while we run here with
the winner. That would be pretty positive. That sort of
sums it all up. From a sunny bill coover.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
Right, Russ, So who would you rather put your money on?
The nags are on the Otago team doing the damage
over Bop on Friday.
Speaker 6 (45:29):
Off, Look what a game. Let's mix it up and
put it in a MOLTI. That's how confident I am
Tago to do a number on bout NYG. That's awesome
to see them go. That's far. Put it in a
multi bowl them over, a race seven and a Targo
to win. You can think me come Monday.
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