March 15, 2026 • 48 mins
Andy Muir talks to Bruce Eade, Eric Roy, Ben Dooley, Greg Erickson and Snr Sgt Gary Iddenton.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Nathan Abanezi's Regional Ford Joints US once again. Good ay, Nathan,
good Andy.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Sort of a changeable day out here today, but it's certainly.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Warm at the moment, but looks like we won't get
a week wet backside this afternoon. But that's the beauty
I guess of having a good showroom. You can come
in and we can show you through all the new vehicles,
all the different models we've got.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
But look, the used car lot at the moment is
starting to fill up. Andy. We've been really short and
used vehicles.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
For a little while, so that is good, I think
after the field days you know that have been very successful.
Of course, a lot of new vehicles gone out and
a lot of used vehicles come in. So we've actually
got quite a range of SUVs here at the moment.
From toy Ota Highlanders, we've got a few high Endo
sand A Fas. We've also just got come in here
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a Hyundai tuson a twenty sixteen for seventeen nine ninety.
They are a really really good car and certainly you
see a lot of them round up. Pretty popular. We've
got escape on the yard here as well, holding for
turners and we've we've got a good range here also
of Ford Everest in that great family vehicle. Plenty of
commercials coming through at the moment as well.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
We've got Lake Model Highlucks.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
This has come on the yuard here in the last
couple of days of twenty twenty three. It's a nice
truck in black and it's a manual with canopy.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
And stuff on the back of it. So that's a
great vehicle.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
And there's always plenty of Ford Ranger. In fact, we've
actually got also here twenty twenty five Ford Ranger that
we showed at the field days. This truck's only down
a couple of thousand k's.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
It's the XLT Forward right, it's got a lift kit
in it with the bigger wheels.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
But the thing that makes it a wee bit unique
is it's actually been it's been lengthened in the chassis
with an engineer out of an Eden that's doing this
now for those that are wanting a bigger deck. It's
got the cab and a half deck on the back
of the double cab. Yeah, a good looking truck and
it just takes it a little bit more load and
with the suspension and stuff in it. It can handle
it with ease. That truck's on the guard here at
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sixty seven thousand including GST. Yeah, basically a breat you.
I'm pretty much a demonstrator so to speak. So so
we're yeah, look this, there's plenty here to certainly come
and have a look at. We've got finance on the
spot that we can that Cody can make very easy
for you. Just come in and talk to any one
of us, and here we'll show you whether it be
the vehicles on the guard or the vehicles in the
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preparation stages.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Good on you mate, catch your Friday.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Thank you, Andy, no no.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
No, good afternoon and welcome to the muster on Hakanui,
Andy Mure here until two o'clock. The show's brought to
you by peterston Nix. Welcome along to an overcast afternoon
here and gorse showers are threatening. We're going to look
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at the weather very shortly. Anyway, we'll carry on in
a circle. That's the tunes.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
He's five day forecast with twin farm tear from and
soft tags. The proof is in the progeny tear from
dot co dot.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
In Z and then that five day forecast. We're talking
showers of breezy nor westerly is and sixteen Tuesday cloudy,
the light NOI east to east fourteen and twenty one.
Wednesday morning showers would breezes sow westerly three and fifteen.
Thursday sunny with westerlyes six and seventeen and Friday is
very similar, Sonny were lights sow easterly six and eighteen.
(03:17):
The oversaw triberages today I've got a Clinton at fourteen
point ninety, Harriet twelve point eight. I've got to get
in touch with the team down there rebellance. I can't
download the format that's coming through by an email, but
nonetheless we continue. Bruce Reed starts us off from the
Sagan Dan farming roundup. Miles Harrell was finishing up as
the chief executive of Fronterira and Bruce tells us that
(03:39):
daring in general has a lot to be think belfore
under his leadership. Eric Royd talks on the political round
up about the Middle East and what it means for
New Zealand and as well these polls that we're hearing.
Of course, being a former National MP, Eric saying we
just need to calm the farm a bit when it
comes to the reporting of these things. Ben do farming
(04:00):
out at Wyndham, looks at lambsheeduels Greg Erickson, our Canadian
correspondent formerly a bay moom who has a yarn, and
Senior Sergeant Gary Hdnington or the Good Police, talks all
policing matters down here in the south as we look
outside yet getting a bit wet. If you're coming to town,
bring your jacket this afternoon. We'll start the hour next
with Bruceed. Bruceed if Cowso gets usumed away in the
(04:31):
Sergeant Dan Farming roundup thanks to Sergeant Dan Stock, Food's
based here and Gore. Good afternoon, Bruce. The song is
called Sweat, which was a bit of sweating last time
we had you on the radio. So in case we
have another faux pas from You've got this at the ready.
So anything you say or do that I think is
a bit of an issue. I'm just going to because
(04:53):
I don't know what the hell is going to come
out of your mouth after last time. You're a disgrace.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
I'm awfully concerned myself. Yes, I'm obviously back off report,
so I'm allowed back. It's good to be back. But
the one good thing is andy that I can tell
you that the muster goes far and warde because I've
had a lot of feedback from a lot of people
who heard it, so yeah, there's not just ten people listening.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Oh that's good to know. Hey, hell's everything at kelso
beautiful today?
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Isn't it like sun's out? Not a breath of wind
here at the moment. And we've got ten meals of
rain there end of last week, which is very much appreciated,
but of a sunder plump. I think it might have
been Saturday night, Friday, Saturday night. And yeah, the last
couple of days have been pretty good really, so just
to keep things kicking on. But what we said at
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before as well, and truly here, she's dark, dark in
the mornings and dark early at and I think last
night half eight well lights were on and machinery so
it's coming.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Are you one of these people that just wishes we'll
get daylight saving over and done with and going to
winter moight?
Speaker 5 (05:56):
I just doesn't worry menither way. There's lights on tractors
for a reason, but no, we just roll on and
change the clocks accordingly. I don't really know when it
is until I hear it on the radio or see
it on the paper telling you that Saturday is when
it's got to change. So I hear it's coming up,
so you're.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Not too far away, So product your boys. It's going
pretty well.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Yeah, no, okay, they're hanging in there pretty good. We're
not blessed with an abundance of fee, but we've got
enough to get through. And if we can have a
good week of sunshine and heat without some wind and that,
you know, after that we sprinkle a rain, will we
should be able to kick on.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Hey, interesting news coming out this morning or surprising, I
suppose Miles Harrell stepping down as chief executive of Frontierra
after eight years at the helm. And I think it's
fair to say he's done a good job, very good job.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Yeah, and he's done an awesome job. I think he's
been in the company one way or another for twenty
five years. I think I read but yeah, that was
certainly a shock for me. I don't know if there's
any signs that that was coming. But you know, when
you look back on it, he's turned the ship around
and it's going great guns at the moment, and they've
made a lot of good decisions along the way, So
twenty five years is a nice round number, I guess.
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And then they got the Sailor Mainland and all that through,
so that was the big job ticked off for this year,
so he's probably thought, you know, now's the time to
pass it on to someone while everything's in good well,
everything's in goodstead. So no, I couldn't say a bad
worried about the guy. I think he's done an amazing job.
And yeah, I was quite shocked when I got the
email this morning from from Tira and it's sad to
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see him go, but wish him all the best for
the future. He's certainly he's certainly been a great a
great front man for the company. And yeah, thanks very much, Miles.
If you're listening.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Fontira selling its brands, you're going to benefit from this.
But are you're a fan of it occurring?
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Ah?
Speaker 7 (07:46):
I think so.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
I mean there was a big talk and who when
we're selling off the brand, household names and all that
sort of thing, and people are going to boycott those
brands because of it. But I think the way the
world is, all that sort of thing is being forgotten
in a millisecond and people are still going to buy
it and it still has brand association and the milk
is still coming from New Zealand cares to fill those brands.
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So I'm happy enough with the decision.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Well, there's an auction coming up again on Wednesday morning,
New Zealand time going for five and a raw dare
I say it? But look anyway, you look at the
dairying situation at the moment in the Kiwi landscape, it's
just pulling his weight, no end.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Yeah, I guess you know. I look at it from
the scenario, it's going great guns at the moment. The
way the world is, volatility and all that sort of thing.
It can change and this could be the start of
the decline, this coming auction that I hope I'm wrong.
But at the end of the day, we still have
to milk the caws good or bad payout. It's just
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a job that has to be done. So if you're
in it, you're in it. If that makes any sense
to you.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
And interesting you talk about just being in control of
what you can regarding the farm gate, look at the wigger.
Let's look at the bigger picture around the world, Bruce,
the situation in the Middle East with Donald Trump. Now
we're seeing the flow on effect here at the fuel pumps.
For you guys, you've bring a lot of diesel, that's
a given. Are you having to deviate away from your
normal plan around heaving machinery work?
Speaker 5 (09:18):
I certainly made us, thinks a bit of a short
and long term plan. Yeah, Like you said, we do
a lot of our own work, so we do burn
a bit of diesel. And at the moment we're in
the middle of getting thirty odd hectores the autumn soing
week ready to go on the ground. We've got another
cut of soils to go. Maze is obviously coming up
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as well, and daily we're feeding the robot cows in
the barn with the tractors. So these was a big
part of our our operation, much like it is for
transports and contractors and sowf and so everybody's looking at
things and watching, wondering, trying to guess what's going to happen.
As a part of me thinks, oh, I get in
three weeks time, this will all be sorted and we'll
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be back to normal. But there's another part of me,
probably equally as much thinking, right, what have we got
to do to plan for worst case scenario? So you know,
we usually deep ripple our wheat paddocks before we get
them ready. This year we've gone away from that just
to try and save some fuel on that side of things.
And there's two or three other options that we're looking
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at of stuff we're not gonna or participate in that
we usually do fuel wise. So yeah, it's just a
case of trying to make a good decision at the
time based on the information you've got. But that seems
to change daily, you know, Like I was talking to
a local transport operator there Thursday last week, and they've
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done the numbers that if this thing carries on and
they use the same amount of fuel as it did
last month, it's already going to cost another twenty eight
and a half thousand dollars for their fuel bill for
the next month. And that was last Thursday. The price
has probably gone up since then, and we'll go up
in the future. So you know, those guys, like everybody
you're facing the squeeze. You can't just pack up all
your trucks and say we're not going to do anything
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until the fuel price comes right, because you know there's
no future in there. So yeah, you just have to
be a bit smarter and trying, as I said, make
the best decision you can fuel business.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
At the time, they.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Talk about scam mangering around the fuel situation, but I
mean that the price is only going to continue to escalate.
You do understand people wanting to get a jerry can full.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Yeah, well you see, that's the other way I look
at it too, like they put the scare mangering in
and they ramp the price up, so everyone jumped in,
you know, like when they hear those goal stations in
Auckland ran out, you know the other day because they
had a fourteen cent special you know, or fourteen cent
off special. Well I worked that out on a fifty
liter tank of fuel for a regular car. They saved
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themselves seven dollars. Well, they probably spent more than that
idling while sitting in the line to get filled up.
From my point of view, the price will be the price, unfortunately,
and the machinery doesn't go without the d Also, my
worry gown forward is availability actually as opposed to price.
So there's certain people in the on the fringes of
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the industry telling us we should all be in sol
or and electric tractors in that well, you know, now,
it's not the time to start winding us up with
that sort of chat because it's not practical at the
moment and b it's not available and it certainly isn't
going to be available in the next two weeks. So let's
just deal with what we've got.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Just on you maye, how's it looking, because we're hearing
of a few crops that have taken a hack courtesy
of the frosts.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Yeah, we've got a couple of frosts here in the
last two weeks too. To the exact, not desirable, but
it's not the end of the world. We have one
paddock there, probably a third of it at the bottom end,
which is the lowest part.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
Of the paddocks.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
How do we touch up? But the leave's top couple
of leaves are looking a bit crispy in that but
as far as I'm aware, that's not going to affect
the rest of the crop going forward. But still far
too early for that sort of carry on. And yeah,
I don't like seeing frost on the forecast nowadays.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Oh yeah, well done, You've ha no far parts this type.
Always appreciate your chat. Enjoy the week, mate.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Good on you, Thanks very much.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Andy Bruce Need farming at Cowso and the Sergeant Dan
farming roundup. Thanks of course, the Sergeant Dan stop foods
down on the team here in Glory. The smell of
that molesses this morning. Something to behold ERICROI is up
next his talk politics. You're listening to the Muster. Welcome back,
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This is the Muster. Eric Croid joins us next. He's
wore a number of hats over the years. Currently a
counselor with Environment South and he's been an MP. He's
been chair of the New Zealand Pork Pork Pork boardlets,
amongst a pleathora of other titles.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
Good afternoon, Eric, Good afternoon, Good to be back.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
You're always good to catch up as we work our
way through an interesting March month and we're trying to
figure out what the hell's happening these fuel prices.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Well yeah, well, I think everybody is really concerned about that.
And I think what's pretty clear now is that the
President of America doesn't think beyond forty eight hours. And
very clearly the strength or moves is going to be
a sticking point, and you just can't bully people whose
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religious beliefs says that'll be rewarded if they're a martyr,
and bombing also is not going to change their minds.
So he's got a problem, and I don't know how
he's going to get out of it. Right now, it
looks like that's still escalating. He's asking for support from
other nations, he's got marines on the way there, and
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it's looking very very messy. But I think what may
well happen is he'll start to feel the bite when
the price of fuel starts to escalate in America and
around the world. Pressure will be put on him and
the fiasco that he's created there, and it's very very untidy.
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That's straight up our moves. It's just absolutely critical as
we know for both fertilizer and fuel and the shipping
lane within it. There's only three kilometers wide, so laying minds,
shooting guns or putting drones into there is not going
to be easy to fix.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
It's very similar to the school yard bully demanding money
off you and then asking you to go at his
quiz tine that week. I mean, what are they supposed
to do, like a care starmer the UK, the EU
countries are they supposed to join in?
Speaker 8 (15:42):
Well? Yeah, for what was this World War three? What
what's likely to happen here? And as I say, look,
it's just just very well, very very much ill considered
the way the whole thing's gone, and very clearly this
was going to be the issue. And you know, the
way in which wars are often fought now is to
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just create some disturbance in the country in the same
way that Venezuela was pedling drugs into America sponsored by
China and Russia, and Trump would have stopped to that.
But this is now going to be fuel prices, and
that's the way the war is going to be fought.
And so it's to just turn people against Trump. And
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there will be a lot of effort by the Iranians
to keep that going as long as they possibly can,
and casualties will not be an issue for a regime
like they run in Iran.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Well, if China gets involved, that's a game changer.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
Well it is. And so you know, there's all sorts
of stories out there now about Russia feeding information or
intelligence into Iran so that they can continue to be
thorn in the side of America and then getting rewarded
now because we their oil. It's just a complete tiasco
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and a terrible mess.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Do you think this will be over sooner than later?
Or is it a case of how long is a
piece of strength?
Speaker 8 (17:09):
Oh? Look, I don't know enough about it to make
a comment on how long it's going to go. But
at the moment it's still escalating, and there needs to
be some effort put into saying how can we now
fix this mess? In short of that, it could go
for quite a while because while it's still escalating, Aroun
is going to keep the pressure on that straight and
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they know that they've got a significant thorn in the
side not only America, but the rest of the world,
and Europe and other countries are going to start and
put pressure on America as well.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
I would guess on.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
The local frontieric what Ease has announced a few closures
regarding factories and that this is sad, but this is
purely just a financial decision. I suppose, well it is.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
And I mean it sort of signifies a number of things.
The first thing is that this huge pressure on the
cost of living. And I have a saying which I
might have used on your show before, that a shoper
going into a supermarket goes in as an environmentalist that
comes out as an economist. The pressures when they're in
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there and what they can buy to feed their family
overrides everything else. And we are now in a place
where the supermarkets are sourcing product at the cheapest price.
They can get it mine and be the best, but
the dollar is king when people have a limited budget
to spend on these things. And these a lot of
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the imported products come from areas where there is a
much cheaper regime to produce it. They have less lesser
standards environmentally or labor or whatever else, and they just
are able to produce a product much cheaper than we
can produce it in New Zealand. And New Zealand sold
off at or what he sold off at Cheers some
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time ago, to an international company and if they can't
make it work in New Zealand, well I'll bring it
in from somewhere else. And that's just the reality of
the world we now live in. And it's a harsh place,
but it is the reality of where we're at.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Well, that's a great saying, Eric, and we can't understate
that a consumer walks and environmentalist walks out an economist.
And I mean this is pretty much a case when
I've got the groceries coming back from oneicare on Saturday,
and the fact lies at supermarkets outside of our local town,
I reckon they're about five to six percent cheaper on
a two hundred dollars shop.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
Well, you could be right, but the other thing is
that that just confuses us is the messiness of what
has actually branded New Zealand product. So if you actually
can afford to buy New Zealand then you want to
buy New Zealand, the signage that's on those products are
very very confusing, and you will be aware of my
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time with New Zealand port and trying to get New
Zealand Porp branded and the fee Asco that we came
up with the David Clark solution when he was Minister
of Consumer Affairs or whatever it was putting the regulations
in place that you get a list of products of
New Zealand and twenty five other countries and the only
thing that might be New Zealand might be the packaging
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in the water, who knows, And so that needs to
be tidied up as well, so that if you do
have the resources to buy New Zealand and you want
to buy New Zealand, there alta be a clear way
in which you can choose that product.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Well, that takes us back to the early nineties, Buy
New Zealand made, and the logo was out there everywhere
to be seen. Do we need to go back to
that era?
Speaker 8 (20:38):
Well it is, but today where we have products imported
from a number of countries to make components of something
like a pickled pork or a salami or something, you
could have a number of products and I kind of
like the Australian system where they just have a thermometers
kind of thing on the side of the packaging which
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shows how much is Australian product by volume or by value,
And we need to go to something like that. I
think that just simplifies it and that will give a
better indication than just here's a product with twenty five
different components in it.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Just finally, Miles Harrow, he said eight years as the
buss of Fronterra, and I think he's done a really
good job. You'll no doubt agree.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Oh, he's put billions of dollars into the New Zealand
economy and he came from within the industry. I think
I'm saying this morning he spent twenty nine years associated
with the dairy industry and he runs in this blood
and he's done a great job. The standard probably didn't
have to be high after the previous one. I think
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Tayy Spearings never really served the industry as well as
he could have. And Mars Miles Harrell, he's done a
great job just identifying where the strengths of the industry
are and making sure that the product is going for
them in the best way to the best markets that
he can. And you know the beneficiary is New Zealand
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as a whole in the dairy industry has done very
well out of them.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I'll just get your comment on this very quickly as well.
Political poll is that one that came out ten days ago?
Is this null in voting your opinion or it's a
case of internal polling maybe following suit.
Speaker 8 (22:25):
Look, I think there's a number of journalists that are
trying to create the news. So you just look at
the last week, the story about the well this morning,
Audrey Young writing about who could take over from Lux
and there is no there's no one doing the numbers
at the moment, and then the story out of some
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o that luxon asked for her retitle and all of
that stuff. Look, I thought by now that the public,
the wider public would be starting to see through the media,
but for some reason they haven't. And Michael Always wrote
an article which I read over the weekend saying Luxon
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just needs to realize that the media are not going
to like him and he just needs to forget about
them and move on. And for me, Luxon mightn't be
the greatest articulate speaker that we've ever had as a
Prime minister, but when we've got a fuel shortage coming
a man with his commercial knowledge and experience driving some
solutions that are going to get us through what might
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be quite a serious crisis is a line way better
than Flash Harry's that stood up during COVID and told
us a load of rubbish on the portraitive truth every
jolly day. And I just think it's time we got
on and had people that can do the business here here.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Eric Croid, nothing wrong with a bit of common sense
on a Monday afternoon. Always appreciate your time, Thank you,
good luck, Eric Roy Freez. Just what Eric said then
from the podium of truth. Do we go back to
that era which we're not going to We are going
to Wyndham next though. Catching up of Ben Dooley, Cheap
Beef and YouTube Farmer.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
The muster on the farm with Southland District Council working
together for a beta South London.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Ben Dooley farms just out of Windom with his wife Sarah,
Cheap Beef and YouTube Farmer. Deal is good, afternoon, Good Andy,
how's it going pretty good? How's everything around Wyndham Way?
Speaker 7 (24:24):
Yeah, she's pretty green, to be fair. I don't think
there's too many complaints about the level of grass around
the place. And prices are still and they might be
falling back a little bit, but they're still holding reasonably
well and they're still absolutely spectacular and yeah, money seems
to be flying and yeah, I think everyone's pretty happy.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
So grass growth hasn't been an issue.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
It's definitely slowed down a wee that I mean, we
are getting to that had to know too. Yeah, it's
not peaking, but it's still going pretty bloddy well for
the time of year. We're still getting any reasonable warmth
and certainly no lack of moisture around and with covers
already being there as you well know, you know, I've
had with cover on it. Good quality cover is going
to grow far better than those are all decked out paddocks.
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And yeah, there's not a lot of that around. So yeah,
i'd say there's plenty of good fat views around the country.
Probably plenty of good fit Derek House as well. And yeah,
we're in a pretty strong position to keep moving forward.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah, I've just had visions of Ben Dooley skipping around
the sheep as he goes round them at the moment.
You're sounding very chipper.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
Oh, there'll be no skipping happening. I can assure you
that I wouldn't want to start an earthquake. But yeah, no,
we're pretty positive. Let's put it that way.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
So as far as lamb's left works wise, because the
boys are going out shortly for the next cycle, which
starts sooner than later, what have you got left?
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Yes, aware as everyone's should well, no one now where.
We're pretty big on big autumn lambs. So we've still
got seventeen fifty ish on at the moment. We've just
sorted up some store lambs. At the moment they're thirty
fourish kilos average. Well, they're not quite there yet, but
they're not going for a wee while yet, so I'll
probably hit that and sort of looking one hundred and
sixty five hundred and seventy bucks and start doing the
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math on that. There, they're close to ten weeks away
from being worth that, you know, at the current schedule.
So we decided we'll just take the hit on that,
take them at the bottom end, and if we decided
it was a bad idea, we'll just hold some bigger
ones longer. There's a bit of a risk in that,
obviously with what the schedule's going to do, with what's
tapping overseas, but sort of thinking that's pretty good money
(26:21):
for some pretty small lambs at the moment, so we'll
take that, and yeah, that'll leave us sort of bit
fifteen fifty to kill. I think there's about two hundred
will what'll be two twenty in the store mobs, So
fifteen thirty fifteen fifty to kill, which is, if anything,
actually a bit light for us. And we've killed over
half the kettle so far. There'll be few in the
last lot that went just under the top price range.
(26:43):
But yeah, so we'll hold onto the mental may and
we'll evaluate what we do then, whether we kill a few,
whether we went to the whole lot, or whether we
take a store price. But yeah, still putting your stock
on to kill. But yeah, as you say, ram time
is coming and there's still a few white yews out there,
most of them a looking pretty good, but they're still
a bit of it to do with some of them.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
So yeah, but you openly proclay that your lambs they
don't do until later on in the season, so you're
pretty relaxed.
Speaker 7 (27:08):
Yeah, Well, whether they don't do, whether it's just that
we're chasing those bigger weights, Like we're sitting at a
nineteen point four average at the moment, there you go. Yeah,
and I'm hoping to get that up over twenty even
including these stall lambs. It'd be nice to see a
season average that that you know, reflects twenty kilo carcass. Wait,
so hopefully we've got some twenty one and twenty two
kilo sheets to come. Yeah. So, whether whether they don't
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do early or whether it's just the air system. I've
always said we have shit springs and awesome wortums. So
as a general rule, yeah, that's sort of what air
air system is. Trying to hold those lambs as later
as we're gained to basically without stuffing ourselves for next spring.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
That's a good saying that one.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
Well, it stands pretty true down here in the East
and South, and I reckon, well.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Okay that aside, you're pretty connected in the social media
world as well as a farming world. What are you
thinking the spring contracts? That is a real long Yeah,
it's a long piece of string. But it's still going
to be interesting. Remembering in June last year up at
Mystery Creek and FC were openly proclaiming ten dollars fifteen.
(28:12):
Everybody thought year na, but then there's a year progress.
It was a case of na, yeah exactly.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
That's where we were sitting there, going how bad is
it going to be at weaning time? And it just
never came down. It still really hasn't come down. So no, look,
I don't want to put a figure on it, but
I would like to think everything for next season is
not reasonably positive. Obviously we've got what's happening in the
Middle East is causing a bit of upset at the moment,
but I'm still hoping that's not going to be overly
(28:39):
long lived. And it's only really the fuel thing, right,
that's that's causing panic there at the moment, So it's
not like a whole huge amount of their product goes
through that straight. But yeah, they're decide everything's looking pretty positive.
It might not be quite what it is this year,
but it can't be far off the mark because there's
nothing and there's something drastic changes worldwide. There's just nothing
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out there pointing to it having to go lower would
be my take on it.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
So this situation in the Middle East, you were saying
just before that you're pretty relaxed about what's going on.
Just explain that.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
Yeah, well, I'm not panicking just yet. I mean, obviously
we're in a bit of a tough situation here with
no longer having a refinery in the country that I
think somewhere between seventy and ninety percent of the fuel
that we get here in New Zealand that is refined
in either Singapore or South Korea does come through that straight.
But the result in the rest of the world. But
(29:34):
the bigger point I think there is that like Iran,
they can't have much left. They didn't have a huge
amount to begin with. The Americans have gone on I'm
taking out a huge amount of their firepair. I think
that they'd be starting to realize that they'd be pretty
stupid to cause too much trouble in there. It's not
going to end well for them either way. So yeah,
(29:55):
i'd like to think, you know, within a month of
six weeks, we'll see some normality and just remember, like
the reason prices are going up now is purely an
increase in demand. Everyone's wanting to stock up. It's not
as though the fuel isn't coming. The fuel is still coming.
The fuel you know that is on its way, that's
nearly here, was already on its way here when this
all started. So yeah, as everyone feels their tank starts,
(30:18):
like all commercial operators, farmers, fishermen, construction, everyone's going to
be filling their tanks as full as they can be,
as much on hand as possible as that eases, because
you know, once you fall, you're not going to try
and fill up again. I can see demand sort of
easing off for you. But whether it has effect on
prices we want it to have or not, I don't know.
(30:38):
But the bigger concern to me right now is supply.
But I just don't see supply long term being a
big issue. Like I say, they can get oil from
elsewhere in the world. And also as everyone fills up,
demand has to ease off for you bit. So yeah,
they're certainly not saying there's nothing to worry about, but
certainly not panicking just yet.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Well, everybody's become a petroleum expert night Dolls, and I
think the issue seems to be that the fuel prices
we're paying for the moment is for fuel already in
the country and for stuff on.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
Water ye, one hundred percent. It's purely whether you say
it's price gouging, whether you say it's just a supply
and demand thing. I'm not going to get into that. Like,
they are private companies at the end of the day,
if people are willing to pay the price, I guess
they're able to check them up as far as they want.
But yes, we're not seeing shortages yet because of what's
happening in the Middle East.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
So what's on the agenda for the rest of the
week then, I mean, you're pretty happy about the situation.
Going to a few more YouTube videos and shows that
vegan versus the rural disconnect that it doesn't exist.
Speaker 7 (31:36):
Yeah, pretty much where we were sort of. I wouldn't
say we're caught up at the moment. There's still a
bit of typing to do. I've got to get lime
and super because I need to start getting that on
before things get too wet. Fure wid jobs are on
the farm to start catching up on. But yeah, we're
at that point now where a lot of the big
jobs are ticked off and it's just oh, there'll be
a bit of fencing to do, but a maintenance on fences,
maintenance on machinery. And yeah, as you say, get back
(31:58):
into the YouTube thing because I've been a bit back
on that in the last week, was just being so busy.
But yeah, one ready to go out tonight, which is
just take sewing a pedico grass from on the road
and a bit of other stuff. But yeah, get back
into a bit of that and try and get that
moving again. And yeah, just just start getting ready for winter.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
I guess get on your Ben always appreciate your time.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
Not chee Lenny.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Ben do we Sheep Beef and YouTube farmer Deep South
Sheep and Beef as his YouTube chenewa something else was
going to say a show, but a new clip coming
out this evening. By the sounds of it, you're listening
to the Muster before the end of the hour Senior
Sergeant Gary Edington and the Gore Police. Next, we're going
to catch up with Greg Garrison, formerly of boy Mumu
(32:43):
these days our Canadian correspondent in a circle is the
music for a Monday You listening to the Muster and
that up. Next, we're away over to Canada, catching up
(33:03):
with Greg Gerrickson formally avoid movie. These days we're working
on a farm just out of Millet and certainly enjoying
better fuel prices and it sounds as over than what
we're seeing here in New Zealand. Greg, Good afternoon, Hey Andy. Yeah,
going pretty well, thanks FOT. We just haven't had the
summer that would expect here in the South. I'm sure
you're well aware of that. But where you are there
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is not uncommon for temperatures to plummet into the minuses.
Speaker 9 (33:28):
Oh the minuses is I think the average temperature in
Canada is like over the whole whole year, I think
it is like minus two on those lines. So minus
temperature is pretty common, especially for six months a year
we have.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
So how warm does it get in summertime? Then if
you go, if you're plunging, well into the negatives.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
Oh do that varies greatly. Actually, some summers will struggle
at thirty and some summers will be knocking on forty
for a month. It actually varies ridiculously.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
So it's like you're seen she a tago climate but
steroid vice kind of.
Speaker 9 (34:06):
It's all it's very short growing season here, so the
crops the planets in May and then combines out in August.
So like summer itself is short and everything goes from
you're starting to warm up to cool down in the
space of a month or two. So this summer is compacted,
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but it can be quite intense.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
So at the moment you're on the cusp of getting
into spring, what's the priority calving?
Speaker 7 (34:37):
Calving?
Speaker 9 (34:37):
Right now, all everyone is, everyone who has cows is carving,
and it's hopefully you've got some sort of shed to
keep the canterling, because last week she was minus twenty
twenty five. But as soon as this is done April
slightly furthers out of here, seeding will begin and then
around these parts probably won't begin till May. But at
(35:00):
the moment it's just trying to get everything all nice
for that if you're not carving.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
I was gott to say, getting so cold, do you
do a lot of the carving inside? I suppose it's
a no brainer, though, if you've got the facilities.
Speaker 9 (35:11):
If you do not, it's all about wind breaks you.
It's all about putting out panels and then with his
wind brakes and makeshift pens and makeshift fences and what
they call bedding. It's just a shredded bale of straw
on the ground and the cars and cows will sleep
(35:32):
in that and hopefully everyone wakes up.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
So what do your work on survival rate wise? If
that's the case, quite high.
Speaker 9 (35:40):
Actually, it's remarkable how well they do. I mean, it
depends on your breed. But if you've got like a cementile,
they don't really have the The viability of an angus
actually remarkably.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
High, primarily breed wise. Luck say Hereford's Angus over there
is it where.
Speaker 9 (35:54):
You were based mainly mainly angus. There is cementile, and
there is main and jew and a few like Charlays,
et cetera. But the angus is a big one because
of the reponsibility. The centinile and the Shaalays are kind
of slow. When the cars get up like once the drops.
(36:17):
When they get up to have a feed, they're just
slow and they don't really chase getting their first drink,
whereas the angus are up straight away and they they
want to live.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Basically, as far as numbers, how many kettles there, how
many cows have you got there that you're carving?
Speaker 9 (36:34):
Three hundred and eighty so we've got sixty heifers for
the first carvers, and they won't start until the first April,
but the rest of them started on the first of March,
and we've probably had one hundred and forty so far.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
So we're in the.
Speaker 7 (36:48):
Thick of it.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Now. As far as the situation with the Middle East
and Donald Trump, we're seeing a big effect here regarding
fuel prices and fuel stocks for that matter. We're hearing about,
but supply chain's being affected now. You're right next to
the US refineries and the likes. I imagine a hand
a problem. But what's it done to your fuel industry
as such?
Speaker 9 (37:09):
Well, if your price has gone up about forty cents.
But then in terms of supply, Canada does not have
a supply issues, especially Western Canada, because it's all pulled
out of the ground here and as refineries close by
that can keep up. It's just flower. So the price
goes up, I guess, but we're not worried about supply
at all. I hear they're talking to New Zealand because
(37:31):
the price going up, your inflation is going up and
all the rest of that. But here the price has
only gone up forty cents. I mean, it will affect
food and everything down the line a little bit, but
not nearly as much. So we're not having those same
conversations here and.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Our previous conversations, Craig, you've talked about Donald Trump and
the knee jerk reactions and the way that he answers
questions and Canadian people and farmers for example, not really
taking too much notice of it. Is that still the case?
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Yep, still the case.
Speaker 9 (38:00):
Everyone's sort of just accepting the market the way it
is because the market, especially the cattle market, is really high,
so everyone's just just keeping their nose, like, you know,
keeping your head down and just just carrying on. The
grain farm's a bit different because that's all to do
with China, especially in the Canola, so it's a little
bit different. But otherwise everyone's.
Speaker 7 (38:21):
Sort of just realizes that they can't.
Speaker 9 (38:23):
Do a lot about it, so just do what you
can and carry.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
On the view of America where you were based. Has
it changed over what's happened over the past six months,
It has slightly.
Speaker 9 (38:34):
So Alberta has the problems I'm in we have. We
are very right leaning. We're very right leaning, and so
the general overview of Trump and the rest of everything
in the state is kind of where a lot of
people would sit here, So it's not that uncommon for
(38:59):
people to be on board with it. So I guess
I'm trying to say is it's really not that talked
about here unless you're from some of the big main centers.
It's like Edmonton, the Calgary. They are the left landing
parts of the province and they have a problem with
the whole thing. But the rest of the broader community,
(39:22):
I guess it's kind of not sympathetic, but just not
that upset by the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Hey, just finally watching Super Rugby over there? Are you
able to watch as such because you're a big Landers
and Stags fan.
Speaker 9 (39:35):
I am a big Landers and Stags fan. I have
to have to resort to watching highlights and I have
to watch and follow the scores and everything on apps following, Like,
actually watching the games is tough because they're all on
at midnight or one o'clock in the morning here, it's
when they start, so it's tough to actually watch especially
and finding an app to actually be able to watch
(39:56):
the games is even harder. So yeah, I have to
resort to watching highlights for the following day.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Good on your Greg will let you carry on. Always
appreciate your time on the Master. All the best of carving, dear.
I'll say it in those and untropical conditions and we'll
talk again. Always appreciate it.
Speaker 9 (40:15):
Yeah, thanks Ndy.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Greg Erickson based at Millet and Alberta and Kennedy. You're
listening to the Master before we rap up, sing your
Sergeant Gary Yeddington of the Go Police, Bad boys, bad boys?
Speaker 3 (40:32):
What you going to do?
Speaker 1 (40:34):
What's he gonna do when.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
They come for you?
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Bad boys?
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Bad boys? What's he going to do? What's he gonna
do when they come for you? When you were eight
and you had bad trees? Welcome back to the Master
on Hackno. The song is bad Boys, Boy in a Circle.
Especially for our next case, Senior Sergeant Gary Yeddington or
the God Police who requested in them oday.
Speaker 6 (40:56):
Good afternoon, Gary, Yeah, good afternoon to the community.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
It's a hell of a joan. It's very apt, right
the good police. How's everything been lately.
Speaker 6 (41:07):
We're in a busy fartment. Probably were seeing the news.
Obviously we're doing execute some search ones recently and some drugs. Yeah,
we've got a few of the rural burgers at the moment,
and we just want to sort of put some refresher
in minded out there to people, you know, to report
stuff and obviously, you know, if there's any information that
can lead to old offenders accountable all the Marrea.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
It has been well documented around the busts that occurred
in the region last week. Are you able to give
us a bit of information about what actually went on there?
Speaker 6 (41:35):
I can tell you it's a lot of hard work
behind the scenes with both the community the staff, you know,
to get to that stage. We're going to be targeting
people that are dealing drugs or trying to hurt people
in the community. And what we're saying to is just
to look over your shoulder and we'll be looking at you,
so obviously you won't know when we're coming.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
Gary. As far as the drags saying in Gore. I
suppose drugs exist and I made a way you go
in New Zealand from a policing perspective, what is the
actual situation.
Speaker 6 (42:06):
Well, like you say, I think drugs is everywhere. Its international,
it's all over the world. Fortunately, people making money at
other people's experience. It has a huge implication on services
medical and also the families. And also people get so
hooked on stuff that they end up committing crime to
feed the habits. And you've got people out there just
deal drugs and they don't really care. So that's the
(42:28):
one we want to take.
Speaker 7 (42:29):
Off the road.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
So your big missage to people out there who are
stuck in a relationship and this is an issue unfortunately.
Speaker 6 (42:37):
Yeah, absolutely, And if you if you know in town
or you know anyone around or a further afield, you've
got crime stoppers bringing in confidentiality and you know we'll
be more inhabity to knock on doors.
Speaker 4 (42:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
As far as rural, we're all hearing about the situation
around fuel at the moment and unfortunately opportunistic opportunistic fees
popping up around and on farms side. This is a
great message to get out there. Luck your tags, luck everything.
Speaker 6 (43:06):
Yeah, yeah, it's probably just taking another step back and
just realizing that we're on hard times at the moment
around and around the world with the Middle East and
the knock on effect it has. So what we're just
re messaging and refreshing people out there in the communities
is to, like you said, lock up your bows, browser
bowsers and make sure that you know you take you know,
lock your tools away, make life difficult for them. There's
(43:26):
people actively out there who are unfortunately, are targeting vulnerable
properties and we want to try and catch them again.
If anyone knows who they are, we're suspicious if it's
urgent one on one crime stoppers. If it's so you
want to remain anonymous one O five.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Are you noticing a trained around rural burglaries lately?
Speaker 6 (43:45):
There's sometimes there's some patterns. We have had some good
results recently, but we continue to try and carry on
with that as well.
Speaker 8 (43:54):
So it's just.
Speaker 6 (43:56):
Sporadic, but there is people out there quite recently who
actually you know, stealing power tools, stealing copper wire, and
sometimes when they steal the wire, they're putting lives at risks,
you know, like people who are medical you know, they
take telephone wire or something like that and someone's on
a medical alarm. It can affect someone getting urgent assistance.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
Likes the copper fifts scary? Are they quite common?
Speaker 6 (44:21):
Come and go, But there is people out there and
there's people in that community or stealing copper. Things start
getting harder money and what we're asking they just it
is out there, but just want to try and catch them.
Speaker 9 (44:34):
Now.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
Drink driving, it's one thing that good police is very
proactive around us checkpoints from a policing perspective, Gary, what's
the response been.
Speaker 6 (44:42):
Yeah, I mean, unfortunately we've had a few more over
the weekend, but we do it every day and we
don't stick to Thirsty Fordis anymore. What we're doing is
we're doing checkpoints. They'll they'll just turn up people trying
to avoid them, just being that we'll be watching you
on the turnoffs as well. And unfortunately a few people
this week under the edge of endy with high readings
and anyone under twenties just not to drink at all,
(45:04):
full stop and no drink drive into anyone else. It's
just one of those things where we've had a few
crashes and I keep we keep saying some having a
repeat conversation. It just doesn't get into some people's brains.
You know, don't drink and drive. It's quite simple.
Speaker 1 (45:18):
As far as the under twenty situation is it quite
a disturbing number of getting caught.
Speaker 6 (45:24):
I wouldn't say disturbing number, but one's bad enough. Never
mind you know, two or three or four.
Speaker 8 (45:30):
So we're just we're just trying to.
Speaker 6 (45:31):
Make sure peopleon't to stand the legislation having a license
of the privilege is not given and affects work, affects everything.
So just think before you actually act.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
And the other thing as well, we like to reiterate
Gary is around scams, especially for the more vulnerable in
our community.
Speaker 6 (45:47):
Yep, there is the scams even harder and harder and
more plausible. We're just reminding people out there that if
you do get scamming, you know, go to your bank
as soon as possible, tell your family, and just make
life really difficult. If you get a phone call and
you're not happy, put it down and just don't answer it.
Absolutely didn't answer it. Because there's a lot of people
losing life savings. They watch about fifty five thousand dollars
(46:08):
or less. You know, it's a lot of money and
you're never going to get.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
It back driving hebits, how have they been? I mean
we're coming into the cooler months now. It's probably a
good reminder for people as well, just the due diligence
around heady phrase checking everything's up to speed coming into winter.
But from your angle, Gary, driving habits and Gore and
South and particularly how are they Yep, there's.
Speaker 6 (46:28):
Always room for improvement. It is the majority, the minority
that ruins it for the majority. But what I would
say is if you are driving vehicles, as a driver,
you are responsible for making sure the tires the cars
legal offt red shoe and sort of roadworthy, and you
can't find anyone else because if you're driving it, you're
driving it. And some of the roads, like the gravel roads,
(46:49):
especially in the winter and the rain we've had, can
be just as dangerous and slippy. So we're just saying
watch the speed, make sure you wear seat belts, you know,
and don't drink and live and just make some good
decisions and get home, get that, get there and back safely.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
Absolutely, Gary, Hey, we'll let you carry on. Always appreciate
your time. And the Goore police police in general doing
a great job down here in the South.
Speaker 6 (47:09):
Thanks as always, Yeah, thanks any thanks for the community
as off, We appreciate it.
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Sort of a changeable day out here today, but it's certainly.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Warm at the moment, but looks like we won't get
a week wet backside this afternoon. But that's the beauty
I guess of having a good showroom. You can come
in and we can show you through all the new vehicles,
all the different models we've got.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
But look, the used car lot at the moment is
starting to fill up. Andy. We've been really short and
used vehicles.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
For a little while, so that is good, I think
after the field days you know that have been very successful.
Of course, a lot of new vehicles gone out and
a lot of used vehicles come in. So we've actually
got quite a range of SUVs here at the moment.
From toy Ota Highlanders, we've got a few high Endo
sand A Fas. We've also just got come in here
(00:46):
a Hyundai tuson a twenty sixteen for seventeen nine ninety.
They are a really really good car and certainly you
see a lot of them round up. Pretty popular. We've
got escape on the yard here as well, holding for
turners and we've we've got a good range here also
of Ford Everest in that great family vehicle. Plenty of
commercials coming through at the moment as well.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
We've got Lake Model Highlucks.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
This has come on the yuard here in the last
couple of days of twenty twenty three. It's a nice
truck in black and it's a manual with canopy.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
And stuff on the back of it. So that's a
great vehicle.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
And there's always plenty of Ford Ranger. In fact, we've
actually got also here twenty twenty five Ford Ranger that
we showed at the field days. This truck's only down
a couple of thousand k's.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
It's the XLT Forward right, it's got a lift kit
in it with the bigger wheels.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
But the thing that makes it a wee bit unique
is it's actually been it's been lengthened in the chassis
with an engineer out of an Eden that's doing this
now for those that are wanting a bigger deck. It's
got the cab and a half deck on the back
of the double cab. Yeah, a good looking truck and
it just takes it a little bit more load and
with the suspension and stuff in it. It can handle
it with ease. That truck's on the guard here at
(01:56):
sixty seven thousand including GST. Yeah, basically a breat you.
I'm pretty much a demonstrator so to speak. So so
we're yeah, look this, there's plenty here to certainly come
and have a look at. We've got finance on the
spot that we can that Cody can make very easy
for you. Just come in and talk to any one
of us, and here we'll show you whether it be
the vehicles on the guard or the vehicles in the
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preparation stages.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Good on you mate, catch your Friday.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Thank you, Andy, no no.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
No, good afternoon and welcome to the muster on Hakanui,
Andy Mure here until two o'clock. The show's brought to
you by peterston Nix. Welcome along to an overcast afternoon
here and gorse showers are threatening. We're going to look
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at the weather very shortly. Anyway, we'll carry on in
a circle. That's the tunes.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
He's five day forecast with twin farm tear from and
soft tags. The proof is in the progeny tear from
dot co dot.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
In Z and then that five day forecast. We're talking
showers of breezy nor westerly is and sixteen Tuesday cloudy,
the light NOI east to east fourteen and twenty one.
Wednesday morning showers would breezes sow westerly three and fifteen.
Thursday sunny with westerlyes six and seventeen and Friday is
very similar, Sonny were lights sow easterly six and eighteen.
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The oversaw triberages today I've got a Clinton at fourteen
point ninety, Harriet twelve point eight. I've got to get
in touch with the team down there rebellance. I can't
download the format that's coming through by an email, but
nonetheless we continue. Bruce Reed starts us off from the
Sagan Dan farming roundup. Miles Harrell was finishing up as
the chief executive of Fronterira and Bruce tells us that
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daring in general has a lot to be think belfore
under his leadership. Eric Royd talks on the political round
up about the Middle East and what it means for
New Zealand and as well these polls that we're hearing.
Of course, being a former National MP, Eric saying we
just need to calm the farm a bit when it
comes to the reporting of these things. Ben do farming
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out at Wyndham, looks at lambsheeduels Greg Erickson, our Canadian
correspondent formerly a bay moom who has a yarn, and
Senior Sergeant Gary Hdnington or the Good Police, talks all
policing matters down here in the south as we look
outside yet getting a bit wet. If you're coming to town,
bring your jacket this afternoon. We'll start the hour next
with Bruceed. Bruceed if Cowso gets usumed away in the
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Sergeant Dan Farming roundup thanks to Sergeant Dan Stock, Food's
based here and Gore. Good afternoon, Bruce. The song is
called Sweat, which was a bit of sweating last time
we had you on the radio. So in case we
have another faux pas from You've got this at the ready.
So anything you say or do that I think is
a bit of an issue. I'm just going to because
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I don't know what the hell is going to come
out of your mouth after last time. You're a disgrace.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
I'm awfully concerned myself. Yes, I'm obviously back off report,
so I'm allowed back. It's good to be back. But
the one good thing is andy that I can tell
you that the muster goes far and warde because I've
had a lot of feedback from a lot of people
who heard it, so yeah, there's not just ten people listening.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Oh that's good to know. Hey, hell's everything at kelso
beautiful today?
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Isn't it like sun's out? Not a breath of wind
here at the moment. And we've got ten meals of
rain there end of last week, which is very much appreciated,
but of a sunder plump. I think it might have
been Saturday night, Friday, Saturday night. And yeah, the last
couple of days have been pretty good really, so just
to keep things kicking on. But what we said at
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before as well, and truly here, she's dark, dark in
the mornings and dark early at and I think last
night half eight well lights were on and machinery so
it's coming.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Are you one of these people that just wishes we'll
get daylight saving over and done with and going to
winter moight?
Speaker 5 (05:56):
I just doesn't worry menither way. There's lights on tractors
for a reason, but no, we just roll on and
change the clocks accordingly. I don't really know when it
is until I hear it on the radio or see
it on the paper telling you that Saturday is when
it's got to change. So I hear it's coming up,
so you're.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Not too far away, So product your boys. It's going
pretty well.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Yeah, no, okay, they're hanging in there pretty good. We're
not blessed with an abundance of fee, but we've got
enough to get through. And if we can have a
good week of sunshine and heat without some wind and that,
you know, after that we sprinkle a rain, will we
should be able to kick on.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Hey, interesting news coming out this morning or surprising, I
suppose Miles Harrell stepping down as chief executive of Frontierra
after eight years at the helm. And I think it's
fair to say he's done a good job, very good job.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Yeah, and he's done an awesome job. I think he's
been in the company one way or another for twenty
five years. I think I read but yeah, that was
certainly a shock for me. I don't know if there's
any signs that that was coming. But you know, when
you look back on it, he's turned the ship around
and it's going great guns at the moment, and they've
made a lot of good decisions along the way, So
twenty five years is a nice round number, I guess.
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And then they got the Sailor Mainland and all that through,
so that was the big job ticked off for this year,
so he's probably thought, you know, now's the time to
pass it on to someone while everything's in good well,
everything's in goodstead. So no, I couldn't say a bad
worried about the guy. I think he's done an amazing job.
And yeah, I was quite shocked when I got the
email this morning from from Tira and it's sad to
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see him go, but wish him all the best for
the future. He's certainly he's certainly been a great a
great front man for the company. And yeah, thanks very much, Miles.
If you're listening.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Fontira selling its brands, you're going to benefit from this.
But are you're a fan of it occurring?
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Ah?
Speaker 7 (07:46):
I think so.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
I mean there was a big talk and who when
we're selling off the brand, household names and all that
sort of thing, and people are going to boycott those
brands because of it. But I think the way the
world is, all that sort of thing is being forgotten
in a millisecond and people are still going to buy
it and it still has brand association and the milk
is still coming from New Zealand cares to fill those brands.
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So I'm happy enough with the decision.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Well, there's an auction coming up again on Wednesday morning,
New Zealand time going for five and a raw dare
I say it? But look anyway, you look at the
dairying situation at the moment in the Kiwi landscape, it's
just pulling his weight, no end.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Yeah, I guess you know. I look at it from
the scenario, it's going great guns at the moment. The
way the world is, volatility and all that sort of thing.
It can change and this could be the start of
the decline, this coming auction that I hope I'm wrong.
But at the end of the day, we still have
to milk the caws good or bad payout. It's just
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a job that has to be done. So if you're
in it, you're in it. If that makes any sense
to you.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
And interesting you talk about just being in control of
what you can regarding the farm gate, look at the wigger.
Let's look at the bigger picture around the world, Bruce,
the situation in the Middle East with Donald Trump. Now
we're seeing the flow on effect here at the fuel pumps.
For you guys, you've bring a lot of diesel, that's
a given. Are you having to deviate away from your
normal plan around heaving machinery work?
Speaker 5 (09:18):
I certainly made us, thinks a bit of a short
and long term plan. Yeah, Like you said, we do
a lot of our own work, so we do burn
a bit of diesel. And at the moment we're in
the middle of getting thirty odd hectores the autumn soing
week ready to go on the ground. We've got another
cut of soils to go. Maze is obviously coming up
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as well, and daily we're feeding the robot cows in
the barn with the tractors. So these was a big
part of our our operation, much like it is for
transports and contractors and sowf and so everybody's looking at
things and watching, wondering, trying to guess what's going to happen.
As a part of me thinks, oh, I get in
three weeks time, this will all be sorted and we'll
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be back to normal. But there's another part of me,
probably equally as much thinking, right, what have we got
to do to plan for worst case scenario? So you know,
we usually deep ripple our wheat paddocks before we get
them ready. This year we've gone away from that just
to try and save some fuel on that side of things.
And there's two or three other options that we're looking
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at of stuff we're not gonna or participate in that
we usually do fuel wise. So yeah, it's just a
case of trying to make a good decision at the
time based on the information you've got. But that seems
to change daily, you know, Like I was talking to
a local transport operator there Thursday last week, and they've
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done the numbers that if this thing carries on and
they use the same amount of fuel as it did
last month, it's already going to cost another twenty eight
and a half thousand dollars for their fuel bill for
the next month. And that was last Thursday. The price
has probably gone up since then, and we'll go up
in the future. So you know, those guys, like everybody
you're facing the squeeze. You can't just pack up all
your trucks and say we're not going to do anything
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until the fuel price comes right, because you know there's
no future in there. So yeah, you just have to
be a bit smarter and trying, as I said, make
the best decision you can fuel business.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
At the time, they.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Talk about scam mangering around the fuel situation, but I
mean that the price is only going to continue to escalate.
You do understand people wanting to get a jerry can full.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Yeah, well you see, that's the other way I look
at it too, like they put the scare mangering in
and they ramp the price up, so everyone jumped in,
you know, like when they hear those goal stations in
Auckland ran out, you know the other day because they
had a fourteen cent special you know, or fourteen cent
off special. Well I worked that out on a fifty
liter tank of fuel for a regular car. They saved
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themselves seven dollars. Well, they probably spent more than that
idling while sitting in the line to get filled up.
From my point of view, the price will be the price, unfortunately,
and the machinery doesn't go without the d Also, my
worry gown forward is availability actually as opposed to price.
So there's certain people in the on the fringes of
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the industry telling us we should all be in sol
or and electric tractors in that well, you know, now,
it's not the time to start winding us up with
that sort of chat because it's not practical at the
moment and b it's not available and it certainly isn't
going to be available in the next two weeks. So let's
just deal with what we've got.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Just on you maye, how's it looking, because we're hearing
of a few crops that have taken a hack courtesy
of the frosts.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Yeah, we've got a couple of frosts here in the
last two weeks too. To the exact, not desirable, but
it's not the end of the world. We have one
paddock there, probably a third of it at the bottom end,
which is the lowest part.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
Of the paddocks.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
How do we touch up? But the leave's top couple
of leaves are looking a bit crispy in that but
as far as I'm aware, that's not going to affect
the rest of the crop going forward. But still far
too early for that sort of carry on. And yeah,
I don't like seeing frost on the forecast nowadays.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Oh yeah, well done, You've ha no far parts this type.
Always appreciate your chat. Enjoy the week, mate.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Good on you, Thanks very much.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Andy Bruce Need farming at Cowso and the Sergeant Dan
farming roundup. Thanks of course, the Sergeant Dan stop foods
down on the team here in Glory. The smell of
that molesses this morning. Something to behold ERICROI is up
next his talk politics. You're listening to the Muster. Welcome back,
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This is the Muster. Eric Croid joins us next. He's
wore a number of hats over the years. Currently a
counselor with Environment South and he's been an MP. He's
been chair of the New Zealand Pork Pork Pork boardlets,
amongst a pleathora of other titles.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
Good afternoon, Eric, Good afternoon, Good to be back.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
You're always good to catch up as we work our
way through an interesting March month and we're trying to
figure out what the hell's happening these fuel prices.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Well yeah, well, I think everybody is really concerned about that.
And I think what's pretty clear now is that the
President of America doesn't think beyond forty eight hours. And
very clearly the strength or moves is going to be
a sticking point, and you just can't bully people whose
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religious beliefs says that'll be rewarded if they're a martyr,
and bombing also is not going to change their minds.
So he's got a problem, and I don't know how
he's going to get out of it. Right now, it
looks like that's still escalating. He's asking for support from
other nations, he's got marines on the way there, and
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it's looking very very messy. But I think what may
well happen is he'll start to feel the bite when
the price of fuel starts to escalate in America and
around the world. Pressure will be put on him and
the fiasco that he's created there, and it's very very untidy.
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That's straight up our moves. It's just absolutely critical as
we know for both fertilizer and fuel and the shipping
lane within it. There's only three kilometers wide, so laying minds,
shooting guns or putting drones into there is not going
to be easy to fix.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
It's very similar to the school yard bully demanding money
off you and then asking you to go at his
quiz tine that week. I mean, what are they supposed
to do, like a care starmer the UK, the EU
countries are they supposed to join in?
Speaker 8 (15:42):
Well? Yeah, for what was this World War three? What
what's likely to happen here? And as I say, look,
it's just just very well, very very much ill considered
the way the whole thing's gone, and very clearly this
was going to be the issue. And you know, the
way in which wars are often fought now is to
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just create some disturbance in the country in the same
way that Venezuela was pedling drugs into America sponsored by
China and Russia, and Trump would have stopped to that.
But this is now going to be fuel prices, and
that's the way the war is going to be fought.
And so it's to just turn people against Trump. And
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there will be a lot of effort by the Iranians
to keep that going as long as they possibly can,
and casualties will not be an issue for a regime
like they run in Iran.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Well, if China gets involved, that's a game changer.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
Well it is. And so you know, there's all sorts
of stories out there now about Russia feeding information or
intelligence into Iran so that they can continue to be
thorn in the side of America and then getting rewarded
now because we their oil. It's just a complete tiasco
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and a terrible mess.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Do you think this will be over sooner than later?
Or is it a case of how long is a
piece of strength?
Speaker 8 (17:09):
Oh? Look, I don't know enough about it to make
a comment on how long it's going to go. But
at the moment it's still escalating, and there needs to
be some effort put into saying how can we now
fix this mess? In short of that, it could go
for quite a while because while it's still escalating, Aroun
is going to keep the pressure on that straight and
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they know that they've got a significant thorn in the
side not only America, but the rest of the world,
and Europe and other countries are going to start and
put pressure on America as well.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
I would guess on.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
The local frontieric what Ease has announced a few closures
regarding factories and that this is sad, but this is
purely just a financial decision. I suppose, well it is.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
And I mean it sort of signifies a number of things.
The first thing is that this huge pressure on the
cost of living. And I have a saying which I
might have used on your show before, that a shoper
going into a supermarket goes in as an environmentalist that
comes out as an economist. The pressures when they're in
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there and what they can buy to feed their family
overrides everything else. And we are now in a place
where the supermarkets are sourcing product at the cheapest price.
They can get it mine and be the best, but
the dollar is king when people have a limited budget
to spend on these things. And these a lot of
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the imported products come from areas where there is a
much cheaper regime to produce it. They have less lesser
standards environmentally or labor or whatever else, and they just
are able to produce a product much cheaper than we
can produce it in New Zealand. And New Zealand sold
off at or what he sold off at Cheers some
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time ago, to an international company and if they can't
make it work in New Zealand, well I'll bring it
in from somewhere else. And that's just the reality of
the world we now live in. And it's a harsh place,
but it is the reality of where we're at.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Well, that's a great saying, Eric, and we can't understate
that a consumer walks and environmentalist walks out an economist.
And I mean this is pretty much a case when
I've got the groceries coming back from oneicare on Saturday,
and the fact lies at supermarkets outside of our local town,
I reckon they're about five to six percent cheaper on
a two hundred dollars shop.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
Well, you could be right, but the other thing is
that that just confuses us is the messiness of what
has actually branded New Zealand product. So if you actually
can afford to buy New Zealand then you want to
buy New Zealand, the signage that's on those products are
very very confusing, and you will be aware of my
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time with New Zealand port and trying to get New
Zealand Porp branded and the fee Asco that we came
up with the David Clark solution when he was Minister
of Consumer Affairs or whatever it was putting the regulations
in place that you get a list of products of
New Zealand and twenty five other countries and the only
thing that might be New Zealand might be the packaging
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in the water, who knows, And so that needs to
be tidied up as well, so that if you do
have the resources to buy New Zealand and you want
to buy New Zealand, there alta be a clear way
in which you can choose that product.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Well, that takes us back to the early nineties, Buy
New Zealand made, and the logo was out there everywhere
to be seen. Do we need to go back to
that era?
Speaker 8 (20:38):
Well it is, but today where we have products imported
from a number of countries to make components of something
like a pickled pork or a salami or something, you
could have a number of products and I kind of
like the Australian system where they just have a thermometers
kind of thing on the side of the packaging which
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shows how much is Australian product by volume or by value,
And we need to go to something like that. I
think that just simplifies it and that will give a
better indication than just here's a product with twenty five
different components in it.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Just finally, Miles Harrow, he said eight years as the
buss of Fronterra, and I think he's done a really
good job. You'll no doubt agree.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Oh, he's put billions of dollars into the New Zealand
economy and he came from within the industry. I think
I'm saying this morning he spent twenty nine years associated
with the dairy industry and he runs in this blood
and he's done a great job. The standard probably didn't
have to be high after the previous one. I think
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Tayy Spearings never really served the industry as well as
he could have. And Mars Miles Harrell, he's done a
great job just identifying where the strengths of the industry
are and making sure that the product is going for
them in the best way to the best markets that
he can. And you know the beneficiary is New Zealand
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as a whole in the dairy industry has done very
well out of them.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I'll just get your comment on this very quickly as well.
Political poll is that one that came out ten days ago?
Is this null in voting your opinion or it's a
case of internal polling maybe following suit.
Speaker 8 (22:25):
Look, I think there's a number of journalists that are
trying to create the news. So you just look at
the last week, the story about the well this morning,
Audrey Young writing about who could take over from Lux
and there is no there's no one doing the numbers
at the moment, and then the story out of some
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o that luxon asked for her retitle and all of
that stuff. Look, I thought by now that the public,
the wider public would be starting to see through the media,
but for some reason they haven't. And Michael Always wrote
an article which I read over the weekend saying Luxon
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just needs to realize that the media are not going
to like him and he just needs to forget about
them and move on. And for me, Luxon mightn't be
the greatest articulate speaker that we've ever had as a
Prime minister, but when we've got a fuel shortage coming
a man with his commercial knowledge and experience driving some
solutions that are going to get us through what might
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be quite a serious crisis is a line way better
than Flash Harry's that stood up during COVID and told
us a load of rubbish on the portraitive truth every
jolly day. And I just think it's time we got
on and had people that can do the business here here.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Eric Croid, nothing wrong with a bit of common sense
on a Monday afternoon. Always appreciate your time, Thank you,
good luck, Eric Roy Freez. Just what Eric said then
from the podium of truth. Do we go back to
that era which we're not going to We are going
to Wyndham next though. Catching up of Ben Dooley, Cheap
Beef and YouTube Farmer.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
The muster on the farm with Southland District Council working
together for a beta South London.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Ben Dooley farms just out of Windom with his wife Sarah,
Cheap Beef and YouTube Farmer. Deal is good, afternoon, Good Andy,
how's it going pretty good? How's everything around Wyndham Way?
Speaker 7 (24:24):
Yeah, she's pretty green, to be fair. I don't think
there's too many complaints about the level of grass around
the place. And prices are still and they might be
falling back a little bit, but they're still holding reasonably
well and they're still absolutely spectacular and yeah, money seems
to be flying and yeah, I think everyone's pretty happy.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
So grass growth hasn't been an issue.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
It's definitely slowed down a wee that I mean, we
are getting to that had to know too. Yeah, it's
not peaking, but it's still going pretty bloddy well for
the time of year. We're still getting any reasonable warmth
and certainly no lack of moisture around and with covers
already being there as you well know, you know, I've
had with cover on it. Good quality cover is going
to grow far better than those are all decked out paddocks.
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And yeah, there's not a lot of that around. So yeah,
i'd say there's plenty of good fat views around the country.
Probably plenty of good fit Derek House as well. And yeah,
we're in a pretty strong position to keep moving forward.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah, I've just had visions of Ben Dooley skipping around
the sheep as he goes round them at the moment.
You're sounding very chipper.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
Oh, there'll be no skipping happening. I can assure you
that I wouldn't want to start an earthquake. But yeah, no,
we're pretty positive. Let's put it that way.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
So as far as lamb's left works wise, because the
boys are going out shortly for the next cycle, which
starts sooner than later, what have you got left?
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Yes, aware as everyone's should well, no one now where.
We're pretty big on big autumn lambs. So we've still
got seventeen fifty ish on at the moment. We've just
sorted up some store lambs. At the moment they're thirty
fourish kilos average. Well, they're not quite there yet, but
they're not going for a wee while yet, so I'll
probably hit that and sort of looking one hundred and
sixty five hundred and seventy bucks and start doing the
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math on that. There, they're close to ten weeks away
from being worth that, you know, at the current schedule.
So we decided we'll just take the hit on that,
take them at the bottom end, and if we decided
it was a bad idea, we'll just hold some bigger
ones longer. There's a bit of a risk in that,
obviously with what the schedule's going to do, with what's
tapping overseas, but sort of thinking that's pretty good money
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for some pretty small lambs at the moment, so we'll
take that, and yeah, that'll leave us sort of bit
fifteen fifty to kill. I think there's about two hundred
will what'll be two twenty in the store mobs, So
fifteen thirty fifteen fifty to kill, which is, if anything,
actually a bit light for us. And we've killed over
half the kettle so far. There'll be few in the
last lot that went just under the top price range.
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But yeah, so we'll hold onto the mental may and
we'll evaluate what we do then, whether we kill a few,
whether we went to the whole lot, or whether we
take a store price. But yeah, still putting your stock
on to kill. But yeah, as you say, ram time
is coming and there's still a few white yews out there,
most of them a looking pretty good, but they're still
a bit of it to do with some of them.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
So yeah, but you openly proclay that your lambs they
don't do until later on in the season, so you're
pretty relaxed.
Speaker 7 (27:08):
Yeah, Well, whether they don't do, whether it's just that
we're chasing those bigger weights, Like we're sitting at a
nineteen point four average at the moment, there you go. Yeah,
and I'm hoping to get that up over twenty even
including these stall lambs. It'd be nice to see a
season average that that you know, reflects twenty kilo carcass. Wait,
so hopefully we've got some twenty one and twenty two
kilo sheets to come. Yeah. So, whether whether they don't
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do early or whether it's just the air system. I've
always said we have shit springs and awesome wortums. So
as a general rule, yeah, that's sort of what air
air system is. Trying to hold those lambs as later
as we're gained to basically without stuffing ourselves for next spring.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
That's a good saying that one.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
Well, it stands pretty true down here in the East
and South, and I reckon, well.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Okay that aside, you're pretty connected in the social media
world as well as a farming world. What are you
thinking the spring contracts? That is a real long Yeah,
it's a long piece of string. But it's still going
to be interesting. Remembering in June last year up at
Mystery Creek and FC were openly proclaiming ten dollars fifteen.
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Everybody thought year na, but then there's a year progress.
It was a case of na, yeah exactly.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
That's where we were sitting there, going how bad is
it going to be at weaning time? And it just
never came down. It still really hasn't come down. So no, look,
I don't want to put a figure on it, but
I would like to think everything for next season is
not reasonably positive. Obviously we've got what's happening in the
Middle East is causing a bit of upset at the moment,
but I'm still hoping that's not going to be overly
(28:39):
long lived. And it's only really the fuel thing, right,
that's that's causing panic there at the moment, So it's
not like a whole huge amount of their product goes
through that straight. But yeah, they're decide everything's looking pretty positive.
It might not be quite what it is this year,
but it can't be far off the mark because there's
nothing and there's something drastic changes worldwide. There's just nothing
(29:00):
out there pointing to it having to go lower would
be my take on it.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
So this situation in the Middle East, you were saying
just before that you're pretty relaxed about what's going on.
Just explain that.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
Yeah, well, I'm not panicking just yet. I mean, obviously
we're in a bit of a tough situation here with
no longer having a refinery in the country that I
think somewhere between seventy and ninety percent of the fuel
that we get here in New Zealand that is refined
in either Singapore or South Korea does come through that straight.
But the result in the rest of the world. But
(29:34):
the bigger point I think there is that like Iran,
they can't have much left. They didn't have a huge
amount to begin with. The Americans have gone on I'm
taking out a huge amount of their firepair. I think
that they'd be starting to realize that they'd be pretty
stupid to cause too much trouble in there. It's not
going to end well for them either way. So yeah,
(29:55):
i'd like to think, you know, within a month of
six weeks, we'll see some normality and just remember, like
the reason prices are going up now is purely an
increase in demand. Everyone's wanting to stock up. It's not
as though the fuel isn't coming. The fuel is still coming.
The fuel you know that is on its way, that's
nearly here, was already on its way here when this
all started. So yeah, as everyone feels their tank starts,
(30:18):
like all commercial operators, farmers, fishermen, construction, everyone's going to
be filling their tanks as full as they can be,
as much on hand as possible as that eases, because
you know, once you fall, you're not going to try
and fill up again. I can see demand sort of
easing off for you. But whether it has effect on
prices we want it to have or not, I don't know.
(30:38):
But the bigger concern to me right now is supply.
But I just don't see supply long term being a
big issue. Like I say, they can get oil from
elsewhere in the world. And also as everyone fills up,
demand has to ease off for you bit. So yeah,
they're certainly not saying there's nothing to worry about, but
certainly not panicking just yet.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Well, everybody's become a petroleum expert night Dolls, and I
think the issue seems to be that the fuel prices
we're paying for the moment is for fuel already in
the country and for stuff on.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
Water ye, one hundred percent. It's purely whether you say
it's price gouging, whether you say it's just a supply
and demand thing. I'm not going to get into that. Like,
they are private companies at the end of the day,
if people are willing to pay the price, I guess
they're able to check them up as far as they want.
But yes, we're not seeing shortages yet because of what's
happening in the Middle East.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
So what's on the agenda for the rest of the
week then, I mean, you're pretty happy about the situation.
Going to a few more YouTube videos and shows that
vegan versus the rural disconnect that it doesn't exist.
Speaker 7 (31:36):
Yeah, pretty much where we were sort of. I wouldn't
say we're caught up at the moment. There's still a
bit of typing to do. I've got to get lime
and super because I need to start getting that on
before things get too wet. Fure wid jobs are on
the farm to start catching up on. But yeah, we're
at that point now where a lot of the big
jobs are ticked off and it's just oh, there'll be
a bit of fencing to do, but a maintenance on fences,
maintenance on machinery. And yeah, as you say, get back
(31:58):
into the YouTube thing because I've been a bit back
on that in the last week, was just being so busy.
But yeah, one ready to go out tonight, which is
just take sewing a pedico grass from on the road
and a bit of other stuff. But yeah, get back
into a bit of that and try and get that
moving again. And yeah, just just start getting ready for winter.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
I guess get on your Ben always appreciate your time.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
Not chee Lenny.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Ben do we Sheep Beef and YouTube farmer Deep South
Sheep and Beef as his YouTube chenewa something else was
going to say a show, but a new clip coming
out this evening. By the sounds of it, you're listening
to the Muster before the end of the hour Senior
Sergeant Gary Edington and the Gore Police. Next, we're going
to catch up with Greg Garrison, formerly of boy Mumu
(32:43):
these days our Canadian correspondent in a circle is the
music for a Monday You listening to the Muster and
that up. Next, we're away over to Canada, catching up
(33:03):
with Greg Gerrickson formally avoid movie. These days we're working
on a farm just out of Millet and certainly enjoying
better fuel prices and it sounds as over than what
we're seeing here in New Zealand. Greg, Good afternoon, Hey Andy. Yeah,
going pretty well, thanks FOT. We just haven't had the
summer that would expect here in the South. I'm sure
you're well aware of that. But where you are there
(33:24):
is not uncommon for temperatures to plummet into the minuses.
Speaker 9 (33:28):
Oh the minuses is I think the average temperature in
Canada is like over the whole whole year, I think
it is like minus two on those lines. So minus
temperature is pretty common, especially for six months a year
we have.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
So how warm does it get in summertime? Then if
you go, if you're plunging, well into the negatives.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
Oh do that varies greatly. Actually, some summers will struggle
at thirty and some summers will be knocking on forty
for a month. It actually varies ridiculously.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
So it's like you're seen she a tago climate but
steroid vice kind of.
Speaker 9 (34:06):
It's all it's very short growing season here, so the
crops the planets in May and then combines out in August.
So like summer itself is short and everything goes from
you're starting to warm up to cool down in the
space of a month or two. So this summer is compacted,
(34:28):
but it can be quite intense.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
So at the moment you're on the cusp of getting
into spring, what's the priority calving?
Speaker 7 (34:37):
Calving?
Speaker 9 (34:37):
Right now, all everyone is, everyone who has cows is carving,
and it's hopefully you've got some sort of shed to
keep the canterling, because last week she was minus twenty
twenty five. But as soon as this is done April
slightly furthers out of here, seeding will begin and then
around these parts probably won't begin till May. But at
(35:00):
the moment it's just trying to get everything all nice
for that if you're not carving.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
I was gott to say, getting so cold, do you
do a lot of the carving inside? I suppose it's
a no brainer, though, if you've got the facilities.
Speaker 9 (35:11):
If you do not, it's all about wind breaks you.
It's all about putting out panels and then with his
wind brakes and makeshift pens and makeshift fences and what
they call bedding. It's just a shredded bale of straw
on the ground and the cars and cows will sleep
(35:32):
in that and hopefully everyone wakes up.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
So what do your work on survival rate wise? If
that's the case, quite high.
Speaker 9 (35:40):
Actually, it's remarkable how well they do. I mean, it
depends on your breed. But if you've got like a cementile,
they don't really have the The viability of an angus
actually remarkably.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
High, primarily breed wise. Luck say Hereford's Angus over there
is it where.
Speaker 9 (35:54):
You were based mainly mainly angus. There is cementile, and
there is main and jew and a few like Charlays,
et cetera. But the angus is a big one because
of the reponsibility. The centinile and the Shaalays are kind
of slow. When the cars get up like once the drops.
(36:17):
When they get up to have a feed, they're just
slow and they don't really chase getting their first drink,
whereas the angus are up straight away and they they
want to live.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Basically, as far as numbers, how many kettles there, how
many cows have you got there that you're carving?
Speaker 9 (36:34):
Three hundred and eighty so we've got sixty heifers for
the first carvers, and they won't start until the first April,
but the rest of them started on the first of March,
and we've probably had one hundred and forty so far.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
So we're in the.
Speaker 7 (36:48):
Thick of it.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Now. As far as the situation with the Middle East
and Donald Trump, we're seeing a big effect here regarding
fuel prices and fuel stocks for that matter. We're hearing about,
but supply chain's being affected now. You're right next to
the US refineries and the likes. I imagine a hand
a problem. But what's it done to your fuel industry
as such?
Speaker 9 (37:09):
Well, if your price has gone up about forty cents.
But then in terms of supply, Canada does not have
a supply issues, especially Western Canada, because it's all pulled
out of the ground here and as refineries close by
that can keep up. It's just flower. So the price
goes up, I guess, but we're not worried about supply
at all. I hear they're talking to New Zealand because
(37:31):
the price going up, your inflation is going up and
all the rest of that. But here the price has
only gone up forty cents. I mean, it will affect
food and everything down the line a little bit, but
not nearly as much. So we're not having those same
conversations here and.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Our previous conversations, Craig, you've talked about Donald Trump and
the knee jerk reactions and the way that he answers
questions and Canadian people and farmers for example, not really
taking too much notice of it. Is that still the case?
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Yep, still the case.
Speaker 9 (38:00):
Everyone's sort of just accepting the market the way it
is because the market, especially the cattle market, is really high,
so everyone's just just keeping their nose, like, you know,
keeping your head down and just just carrying on. The
grain farm's a bit different because that's all to do
with China, especially in the Canola, so it's a little
bit different. But otherwise everyone's.
Speaker 7 (38:21):
Sort of just realizes that they can't.
Speaker 9 (38:23):
Do a lot about it, so just do what you
can and carry.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
On the view of America where you were based. Has
it changed over what's happened over the past six months,
It has slightly.
Speaker 9 (38:34):
So Alberta has the problems I'm in we have. We
are very right leaning. We're very right leaning, and so
the general overview of Trump and the rest of everything
in the state is kind of where a lot of
people would sit here, So it's not that uncommon for
(38:59):
people to be on board with it. So I guess
I'm trying to say is it's really not that talked
about here unless you're from some of the big main centers.
It's like Edmonton, the Calgary. They are the left landing
parts of the province and they have a problem with
the whole thing. But the rest of the broader community,
(39:22):
I guess it's kind of not sympathetic, but just not
that upset by the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Hey, just finally watching Super Rugby over there? Are you
able to watch as such because you're a big Landers
and Stags fan.
Speaker 9 (39:35):
I am a big Landers and Stags fan. I have
to have to resort to watching highlights and I have
to watch and follow the scores and everything on apps following, Like,
actually watching the games is tough because they're all on
at midnight or one o'clock in the morning here, it's
when they start, so it's tough to actually watch especially
and finding an app to actually be able to watch
(39:56):
the games is even harder. So yeah, I have to
resort to watching highlights for the following day.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Good on your Greg will let you carry on. Always
appreciate your time on the Master. All the best of carving, dear.
I'll say it in those and untropical conditions and we'll
talk again. Always appreciate it.
Speaker 9 (40:15):
Yeah, thanks Ndy.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Greg Erickson based at Millet and Alberta and Kennedy. You're
listening to the Master before we rap up, sing your
Sergeant Gary Yeddington of the Go Police, Bad boys, bad boys?
Speaker 3 (40:32):
What you going to do?
Speaker 1 (40:34):
What's he gonna do when.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
They come for you?
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Bad boys?
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Bad boys? What's he going to do? What's he gonna
do when they come for you? When you were eight
and you had bad trees? Welcome back to the Master
on Hackno. The song is bad Boys, Boy in a Circle.
Especially for our next case, Senior Sergeant Gary Yeddington or
the God Police who requested in them oday.
Speaker 6 (40:56):
Good afternoon, Gary, Yeah, good afternoon to the community.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
It's a hell of a joan. It's very apt, right
the good police. How's everything been lately.
Speaker 6 (41:07):
We're in a busy fartment. Probably were seeing the news.
Obviously we're doing execute some search ones recently and some drugs. Yeah,
we've got a few of the rural burgers at the moment,
and we just want to sort of put some refresher
in minded out there to people, you know, to report
stuff and obviously, you know, if there's any information that
can lead to old offenders accountable all the Marrea.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
It has been well documented around the busts that occurred
in the region last week. Are you able to give
us a bit of information about what actually went on there?
Speaker 6 (41:35):
I can tell you it's a lot of hard work
behind the scenes with both the community the staff, you know,
to get to that stage. We're going to be targeting
people that are dealing drugs or trying to hurt people
in the community. And what we're saying to is just
to look over your shoulder and we'll be looking at you,
so obviously you won't know when we're coming.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
Gary. As far as the drags saying in Gore. I
suppose drugs exist and I made a way you go
in New Zealand from a policing perspective, what is the
actual situation.
Speaker 6 (42:06):
Well, like you say, I think drugs is everywhere. Its international,
it's all over the world. Fortunately, people making money at
other people's experience. It has a huge implication on services
medical and also the families. And also people get so
hooked on stuff that they end up committing crime to
feed the habits. And you've got people out there just
deal drugs and they don't really care. So that's the
(42:28):
one we want to take.
Speaker 7 (42:29):
Off the road.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
So your big missage to people out there who are
stuck in a relationship and this is an issue unfortunately.
Speaker 6 (42:37):
Yeah, absolutely, And if you if you know in town
or you know anyone around or a further afield, you've
got crime stoppers bringing in confidentiality and you know we'll
be more inhabity to knock on doors.
Speaker 4 (42:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
As far as rural, we're all hearing about the situation
around fuel at the moment and unfortunately opportunistic opportunistic fees
popping up around and on farms side. This is a
great message to get out there. Luck your tags, luck everything.
Speaker 6 (43:06):
Yeah, yeah, it's probably just taking another step back and
just realizing that we're on hard times at the moment
around and around the world with the Middle East and
the knock on effect it has. So what we're just
re messaging and refreshing people out there in the communities
is to, like you said, lock up your bows, browser
bowsers and make sure that you know you take you know,
lock your tools away, make life difficult for them. There's
(43:26):
people actively out there who are unfortunately, are targeting vulnerable
properties and we want to try and catch them again.
If anyone knows who they are, we're suspicious if it's
urgent one on one crime stoppers. If it's so you
want to remain anonymous one O five.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Are you noticing a trained around rural burglaries lately?
Speaker 6 (43:45):
There's sometimes there's some patterns. We have had some good
results recently, but we continue to try and carry on
with that as well.
Speaker 8 (43:54):
So it's just.
Speaker 6 (43:56):
Sporadic, but there is people out there quite recently who
actually you know, stealing power tools, stealing copper wire, and
sometimes when they steal the wire, they're putting lives at risks,
you know, like people who are medical you know, they
take telephone wire or something like that and someone's on
a medical alarm. It can affect someone getting urgent assistance.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
Likes the copper fifts scary? Are they quite common?
Speaker 6 (44:21):
Come and go, But there is people out there and
there's people in that community or stealing copper. Things start
getting harder money and what we're asking they just it
is out there, but just want to try and catch them.
Speaker 9 (44:34):
Now.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
Drink driving, it's one thing that good police is very
proactive around us checkpoints from a policing perspective, Gary, what's
the response been.
Speaker 6 (44:42):
Yeah, I mean, unfortunately we've had a few more over
the weekend, but we do it every day and we
don't stick to Thirsty Fordis anymore. What we're doing is
we're doing checkpoints. They'll they'll just turn up people trying
to avoid them, just being that we'll be watching you
on the turnoffs as well. And unfortunately a few people
this week under the edge of endy with high readings
and anyone under twenties just not to drink at all,
(45:04):
full stop and no drink drive into anyone else. It's
just one of those things where we've had a few
crashes and I keep we keep saying some having a
repeat conversation. It just doesn't get into some people's brains.
You know, don't drink and drive. It's quite simple.
Speaker 1 (45:18):
As far as the under twenty situation is it quite
a disturbing number of getting caught.
Speaker 6 (45:24):
I wouldn't say disturbing number, but one's bad enough. Never
mind you know, two or three or four.
Speaker 8 (45:30):
So we're just we're just trying to.
Speaker 6 (45:31):
Make sure peopleon't to stand the legislation having a license
of the privilege is not given and affects work, affects everything.
So just think before you actually act.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
And the other thing as well, we like to reiterate
Gary is around scams, especially for the more vulnerable in
our community.
Speaker 6 (45:47):
Yep, there is the scams even harder and harder and
more plausible. We're just reminding people out there that if
you do get scamming, you know, go to your bank
as soon as possible, tell your family, and just make
life really difficult. If you get a phone call and
you're not happy, put it down and just don't answer it.
Absolutely didn't answer it. Because there's a lot of people
losing life savings. They watch about fifty five thousand dollars
(46:08):
or less. You know, it's a lot of money and
you're never going to get.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
It back driving hebits, how have they been? I mean
we're coming into the cooler months now. It's probably a
good reminder for people as well, just the due diligence
around heady phrase checking everything's up to speed coming into winter.
But from your angle, Gary, driving habits and Gore and
South and particularly how are they Yep, there's.
Speaker 6 (46:28):
Always room for improvement. It is the majority, the minority
that ruins it for the majority. But what I would
say is if you are driving vehicles, as a driver,
you are responsible for making sure the tires the cars
legal offt red shoe and sort of roadworthy, and you
can't find anyone else because if you're driving it, you're
driving it. And some of the roads, like the gravel roads,
(46:49):
especially in the winter and the rain we've had, can
be just as dangerous and slippy. So we're just saying
watch the speed, make sure you wear seat belts, you know,
and don't drink and live and just make some good
decisions and get home, get that, get there and back safely.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
Absolutely, Gary, Hey, we'll let you carry on. Always appreciate
your time. And the Goore police police in general doing
a great job down here in the South.
Speaker 6 (47:09):
Thanks as always, Yeah, thanks any thanks for the community
as off, We appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (47:14):
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