July 16, 2026 • 48 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Nathan Abernethy from Regional four catches up once again. Good afternoon, Nathan.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Good afternoon, and nice to see the sun shining out there.
Absolutely beautiful afternoon here and Gorse. So if you're around,
feel free to drop in. We've got plenty of great
deals on offer, whether it be newer used, tons of
new Ranger and new Everest coming through here at the moment.
But also look on a Friday, it's used vehicles we
sort of touch on.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
And we've got.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Lots of good late model trucks coming through right now.
We've even got a twenty twenty three high CSR five
cruiser that's just come in the doors. That's just in
the preparation stages. Really nice truck. It's white, it's the
diesel obviously, it's got a canopy on the back, and
for forty three nine ninety including GST it's done about
(00:43):
one hundred and eighty thousand k's. But that's a very
cheap truck for what that is to be driving one
of those late late model To add a highlexed cruisers,
we've got late model wild tracks. We've got plenty of
good forty Everest in here at the moment. So if
you want to update that family vehicle. Now is a
very good time because we've got plenty of those. Look,
we can make it really easy. Just come in and
see us here this afternoon as always, doorsably open till five,
(01:05):
open again tomorrow morning at half past nine. Workshops busy
out there, but if there's anything we can do, certainly
give us a call and we'll get your boocked in
and get any issue sorted. But anyway, once again, watching
everybody a lovely weekend. I think the forecast is looking
great to enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Good on your notes yet next week.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Thanks Andy, Blissa, good afternoon, and welcome to the muster
on Hakanui and him.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
You're here until two o'clock of course, Sax and Peters
to your next Thanks to your company. On a beautiful afternoon.
Like Nathan talked about just before, blue sky, a little
bit of cloud and it is what are we tempertwise at.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
The moment, well, goodness through around ten or eleven.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Degrees, not too chevy at all, but this be honest,
we needed to have good weather after that little bit
of a shake last night, Mother of nature reminding us
that she's in the background, so hopefully everything and everyone's
got through unscathed by the sounds of it. Yes, but
just another subtle reminder. So that's the music for the
day that the theme is shake shakes. This is Metro
(02:11):
station a Messas song from around two thousand and six
called shake It, Shake.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Shame, Shake Shake Shake.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Paknui's five day forecast with twin farm teff from and subtext.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
The proof is in the progeny tear from dot co
dot Inzad.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Friday afternoon sees cloud with breezing nor westerlies into high twelve.
Saturday rain developing in the afternoon with north westerlies four
and twelve. Sunday sunshine and like Westerly's one and ten
Monday sunshine and the cant variable wins zero and nine.
Tuesday is sunshine with raising all westerlyes five and twelve, so.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Temperature just to hand.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
On Friday, Clinton two point nine, Harriet three point six,
Norman south from five point five, Riverton seven point four,
Town now five point five, Tataroa six point four, Winter
and three point seven and woodlands at s Jamie McKay
starts us off this afternoon and the country crossover followed
up by Niger woodhead farming in South Otago.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
We catch up with Nige.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
It's a couple of weeks now, just about since Tom
Slee won the FMG Young Farmer of the Year. Nige
won the competition in twenty seventeen and just tells us
in the aftermath from his perspective what it was like,
especially in a social sense regarding commitments in that Steve
Ellison of Biowacta joins us for a chat bio wack
for soils of course, sponsoring the Country Crossover. Phil Duggan
(03:32):
a weather watch looks at the weather for the next
seven days down here in the South and New sedtig
Zebbie sport producer Mark Colly previews a big weekend of
sporty head the Wires up against the Dragons this weekend.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
The NRL starting to get.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Towards the n nitty gritty part of the season, so
about further ado. We'll start the hour next with Jamie McKay.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
This is the Muster. We're here until two o'clock. In
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Speaker 6 (04:01):
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Speaker 1 (04:13):
Jamie McKay, host of the Country, joins us for this
week's Country Crossover thanks to bioactive soils.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Good afternoon, Jamie. It's been a while since we spoke.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Well, I had a couple of weeks off in Australia
on grandparenting duty. So I've come home from that and
I actually need a holiday from the holiday. Work's been
quite relaxing compared to looking after two grandchildren. Love them
to bits, but they're kind of if they were sheep,
you would call them electric fences. They're free rangers, so
(04:43):
they had to try and instill a bit of discipline
into them over the two week period.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Do you actually enjoy going to Adelaide, Jamie, or is
it just having to do a box ticking exercise for you? Oh?
Speaker 7 (04:55):
No, no, no, I love Adelaide. I mean to be honest.
My daughter Rebecca and her husband Jane. He's got a
big swimming pool business. They went to a conference in Manila,
so there's two sets of grandparents. It wasn't too bad
at all. Look, I love I love Adelaide. It's a
lot of kiwi's myself included. I've never been there and
(05:16):
probably don't have a reason to go. They're the only
reason I've spent time there obviously is because of family.
But it's a great city and for a sporting aficionado
like yourself, the Adelaide Oval is one of the great
sports grounds in the world and it's right smack in
the middle of the city and the city it's nearly
the same size as Auckland, but a dream to get
(05:37):
around compared to Auckland because it's basically just one giant,
big square with the Pidleywee River running through the middle
of it. So it's it's It's designed by the same
bloke who designed christ Church ann in the Cargol Colonel Light,
and I think it's a great city. It's got some
great heritage buildings. It's obviously got wine regions north and south,
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and the Murray River not a mile away, so no look, honestly,
if you're a Kiwi and you're looking for somewhere to go,
it's very hot in the middle of summer. It's quite chilly,
to be honest, in the middle of winter, but go
on the shoulders of the season you'll love it.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Did you not feel the earthquake class night? I send
a message to see who actually what the story was.
I think you're the only person in the South Island
that didn't or in Otago Southland.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
No, I didn't really, I didn't honestly feel it. And
then I got the alerts on my phone saying evacuate, evacuate,
which I guess you better to be safe than sorry,
but no, to be honest, I didn't feel it, not
like the christ Church earthquakes, which we really felt here
in Dunedin. But and I can't even say it was
because I was half stunned on cougar juice because Thursdays
(06:44):
I one of my alcohol free days, anding I proudly
have four of them a week. Anyhow, we've got another game,
of course to watch this afternoon. Is it Riverton this afternoon?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Riverton Southend to Targo there well, its first game of
the years.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
Vote yeah, Otargo versus A. And I'm a Stags fan
through and through like you, but it's a bit like
the League of Nations. When I look through the team,
I don't see that many sort of household South for names,
and I understand why we've got to bring imports. And
I would, to be honest, Andy, as a long suffering fan.
I would just like to see a few more local
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lads in there. And we've lost a cracker and I
know you interviewed him, I think last week or earlier
this week, Morgan Mitchell. You know guys like that who
were born and bred in the province and who would
die for the for the big s on the less
on the left breast. So you know, hopefully a few
more local players can come through. Good to see Gregor
(07:40):
Rutlege in there. That's three generations of them.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
You can't doubt the genetics and that family. James's amazing MPC.
I think it starts in a couple of weeks. Actually, yeah,
And we've got some good talent there.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Michael.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
Good to see Michael Manson. He must have seven's commitments. No,
he's good for the NPC, I think, oh good, Well,
I love watching him. Scott Gregor is a good player,
So you know we'll go all right, Nick Sheerer. But
as I say, I'll support them through thick and thin.
I'd just like to see some more local talent in there.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Yeah, no argument.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Now, it's been an interesting week in politics. We'll start
off the Green Party. I could just say this, where
go out make a cup and tea, go to the pub,
have a point, come back, and I think you'd still
be having a bit of a rent Jamie inter reating
what's coming.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Out of their four walls over the past seven days.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Sorry you just cut out on me, are we? But
there was that my cue to have a rant about
the Greens.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Yeah, where you go, I'm way to put the joke.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
No, no, no no, I just think that you know, you've
got to respect what they stand for.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
I don't.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
I've got a lot less respect for the Greens than
I used to back in the days when Rod Donald
and Jeanette fitz Simon's were leading the Green Party. I
had a lot to do with Rod Donald. They were
an environment environment party, not a socialist activist party like
they are now. And James Sure, I really had a
lot of time for him, but the Greens didn't. They
(09:02):
engineered him out of there because he was too centrist.
If you want so, look, I just think, look, they're dangerous,
they're really dangerous. Labor we might have to live with
who knows, but if you get if the Opportunity Party
and I had Daniel Ebb on the show earlier in
the week, who's their Deputy leader, and I've known for
a number of years. Make no mistake about it. If
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you're voting for the Opportunity Party because they're brand new
and sexy and you like some of the stuff they're
going on about universal income and land tax and all that,
you will get a center left government. So it's going
to be an unholy alliance between Labor, the Greens, to
Party Maori and the Opportunity Party. And honestly, you know,
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people were free to vote how they want to and
you've got to respect democracy. But I just think, look
this land tax. For instance, you got a ten million
dollar dairy farm or something. There's fifty grand a year
that's going out in a land So you need to
think about these things. And worse than the Opportunity part
I mean, the Greens will never get their water and
(10:08):
fertilizer plan through, but they will be chipping away at labor,
and I think to be fed of labor. I think
Joe Luxton's been put in there to be a nice,
non contentious person in the agg portfolio. Chippy's made it
a good effort, along with Federated Farmers, to listen to
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what farmers need and want and what the country wants,
so I'll give them credit for that. But the Greens
are anti farming, That's just it. They're anti farming. To
party Mari, well, don't even start me with some of
their policies, you know. But you're free to vote how
you want. But seriously, you were talking about Adelaide. I
could be spending more time over there, Andy.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Paul Henry as well putting his name forward for ACT.
This is very clever on their behalf.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Oh he'll shake things up already's shaken things up and
ACT see Acts in danger. This is a smart move
by David Seymour because they've lost one of their most
effective people or they're going to Brook van Valden. I
think she's been really effective and brave in her portfolio.
Remember she's fronted the pay equity thing, which hasn't been
(11:18):
popular at all, but it saved the country a hell
of a lot of money. So she's gone. I don't
know how long Paul Henry will last, whether he'll go
straight into a cabinet if we have a center right government,
but he says things that other people are afraid to say,
and we've kind of seen in this build up to
this election the celebrity candidate. I mean he's probably the biggest.
(11:41):
But you think of Michael Laws and he's a controversial
figure at the best of times, but he's flamboyant, he's colorful,
he speaks his mind. You've got Tyane Randall and then
they've got the've lassued old Stu Nash and who's always
a bit of a loose cannon but always entertaining as well.
So New Zealand First has got on for high profile
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candidates and I think and I haven't changed. I've seen
nothing to make the change my mind, Andy. I think
New Zealand First is going to poll really well in
this election, and it will be mainly at the expense
of the National Party, and to a lesser degree act
maybe Paul Henry might stem some of the bleeding. Look,
(12:21):
it's going to be interesting as I see it. And
I think that the Opportunity Party haven't come under enough
scrutiny or certainly their policies haven't.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Andy.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
But if the Opportunity Party gets past the five percent threshold,
we've got to change a government.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Good only Jamie enjoy the weekend.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Yep, go this well, you go the Stags this afternoon
and I'm really looking forward to that all black match
at Eden Park, a real test for Dave Rennie Tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Night, Jamie McKay and the country crossover thanks.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
To Bioactive Soils. Up next on the muster away to
South of Tigo Nige would.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Here we catch.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
Up Gregory Ebitts, the artist.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
The song there is Shaky Down.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
The theme today is, of course, shake after the Mother,
after Mother Nature last night, letting us know that she
is all around us.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
This is the muster.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
We're catching up next with Nigel wood Head farming in
South Otago between Burcluther and Milton Good afternoon night house Siggs.
Speaker 9 (13:26):
The afternoon and anything's pretty good today. The sun is
quite high, cloud now, the summer shining earlier on and
yeah we took a long.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Good now you didn't feel the quake last night? You
were in transit.
Speaker 9 (13:39):
Yeah, we were driving, so I didn't feel it. But yeah,
it sounds like a a bit of a shakedown around
the place.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yeah, but of just to wake up called Mother Nature,
Like I say, letting snow.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
She's about the.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Weather this week though it's been pretty good all things considered.
It's just winter being winter and a few warmer afternoons.
Speaker 9 (13:57):
Yeah, we had a handful weeping of rain five or
six miles the other night. But apart from that, it's
been really good. Days like today, it slowly drives the
place out.
Speaker 10 (14:08):
And you know, we've got every thing apart from a
wee more beus its on crop now and grand conditions
are really good, and it's yeah every days.
Speaker 9 (14:18):
Really, we'll take winter if it's what it's like. But yeah,
ten days ago shows a different story.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Man, it was wet and just getting little signs of
not spring like conditions.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Let's be honest about it.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Today's are stating the length and so you know you
just kind of grasp with those wee straws at the moment,
but they are there.
Speaker 9 (14:37):
Yeah, well we're what are we now? We're halfway through July. Yeah,
halfway through July, and usually in August that starts to
starts to warm up a bit, and.
Speaker 11 (14:47):
There's usually a period of time there.
Speaker 9 (14:49):
In August where it's beautiful and warm and all the
brakes dry out and get rid of the wet weather
gear for a few days. So yeah, look it's yeah,
that's wheter time. You got to expect what we've been having.
So it's lock say, it's doesn't mean too bad.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Really, it's almost a circuit break. You're leaving the leaguings
off for a couple of days.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
Well, every year in August you get a warm block
I say, warm pitch, and you put the legings away
and get the boots out and think, here we go,
springs here and then it only last about two days
in it and it ships the beard again and you're
gonna go put the way to get back off. So
it's yeah, just it's just something I got to expect.
But that's like I say, it's winter time where we're
(15:30):
handling it pretty good, and if it carries on like this,
will be will be happy enough.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Scanning results as you as you expect.
Speaker 9 (15:40):
No, it wasn't quite what I expect that. It was
up and up a bit. Actually I was not expecting that. Yeah,
we ended up sort of mid one nineties, which was
it will be the best with laying laying off skinned
and yeah up six track seemed on last year. So yeah,
and edible result. We definitely were not expecting that. And
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probably the biggest, the most pleasing thing was that the
Tudoo scanned one hundred and ninety odd as well, which
I didn't expect that out of them, like they're their
reasonable tutoos, But if you looked at them, you wouldn't
think they've got that one hundred and ninety in them.
So we obviously got something right in the autumn. And yeah,
hapy days. Now just got to try and keep them
all alive.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
So how's the crops going as far as eating wise.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
Not too bad yet. We've got two mobs of kettle
on fot of meat, one of them eating about as
much as they should and the other mile of hawking
through their fota meat. You're either eating more than they
should be, or the croppers where I yielded the crop
I overestimated it, or the combination of the two. But
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just sort of trying not to overfeed them but at
the same time keep them fully feed and just poking
as much bailerge into them as we can without making
a mess with the tractor. That's all right at the moment,
but yeah, last week it was but hard work getting
around getting bailing and defeeders for kettle on crop and
to use mixtage. The mixtage multiples are twins and singles
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have got so they're done two days on five I've
eating two days on kale, and yeah, they're getting pretty
well transitioned now, so they're enjoying that. And what else
we've got habits are on carl and plantain and are
on suite, so everything's taken along pretty well actually, But
like I say that, one more of the balls on beat,
they might come off of it earlier than I was anticipating.
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And yeah, the hobbits are hooking through the carl and
plantain too, but I think we'll be able to We
might be able to grab a weaker swedes or something
else with them at the end to get them through
before they get start the old rotation.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Now you were at count your cal u's pre lambing,
is that correct?
Speaker 9 (17:48):
Yeah, so well, when we do our prelim in or health,
we'll mouth everything for all the old use and anything
with a shot mouth or anything that's cal fraid jaw,
it's going to go where you identify them, then lamb them.
Separate round the yard here, just kicking close to the house,
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keep the freezer. You separate right the way through and
usually we'll share them to the middle of November and
then kill them second week of December those years and
win the lambs a web earlier, but in the past
we've actually sold some or all of those freezer us
with lambs at foot in the end of October if
it starts getting bit tight as well, so it's quite
a good lever. It lets us start destocking. If it's
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getting a bit tight, like saying October, we can pull
pen and sell them then or in a normal year
whatever that looks like. We'll kill them in second week
of December and it freeze up a heap attacker for
putting with the feeding and freeze a bit of feed
up for weaning around Christmas time here, and.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
The prices are looking pretty good. Last Jobby spokes here
as well.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
We'll mentioned this forgetting Tom see getting the Eccolades and
the farmer comp now two weeks on Nige, but you
would have been pretty chapped around that.
Speaker 9 (19:05):
Oh Stoke, Yeah, that Stoke. That's I mean, obviously to
see the trophy come back the Tiger Southlands awesome. But
Thom's Thom's worked really hard and you know, great men,
and obviously he's been a family history of here as well,
so that yeah, it was really cool to see him
take it out and he was the first timer in
that Grand Final, coming up against a couple of more
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seasoned campaigners, a couple of guys have been here before
and Minister took them up. So yeah, it was yeah, yeah,
I have the moan to see him take it. Actually
it is awesome, and yeah he'll be he'll be awesome
investador for for young farmers and for agriculture in New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Was that like that for you when you won Nightge
all of a sudden you felt like you had a
bit of a responsibility for the industry to be an ambassador.
Speaker 9 (19:52):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just this sort of Yeah,
I think I spoke about it last time, like, all
of a sudden, the person that people want to hear
from and people want to know what's going on, and
you know, all of a sudden, it's like you're the
young farm of the year. You're sort of put up
on this pedestal and I don't know if Time's expecting
you or not. I haven't spoken to him, but I
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definitely wasn't expecting all the all the attention and all
the phone calls and all the invite places here and
there and all that sort of stuff. So yeah, you're
definitely you know, you're definitely held held up in lights
as a representative for agriculture and for young farmers in
New Zealand. And you know, the opportunities that come from
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just being the Young Farmi of the Year a huge.
You know, we had all sorts of random opportunities to
do stuff. We got invited to Wellington to an official
dinner with the President of Ireland and all sorts of
random stuff that just comes out. But it was awesome.
So you just got to make the most of those opportunities.
(20:58):
Because this in twelve months time, after the next years
Grand Final, your old news and someone else's someone else's
going to be the Young Family Year. You've got an
obligation to just get stuck under it and make the
most of the opportunities.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Yeah, great way to look at it.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Nights we'll leave it there, enjoy the weekend and made
this way to continue.
Speaker 9 (21:18):
Yeah every day. Thanks Eddie.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Noja wat he in South Otago, this is the muster
speaking of the weather.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Full Duncan of weather Watch gives us the forecast for
the South over the next seven days. He's next.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Brings the voice to the yard and they're.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Like, welcome back to the Muster. Of the thing today
is shakes.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
He's the reason we're playing Calise and Milkshake Downetheless, it's
time for Phull Duncan from weather Watch.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
It's a song about a shake, but it's also about milkshakes.
Good afternoon, silk.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
It makes me think of all the dairy farmers with
all the cows rocking back and forth for a time
last night.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Yeah, good songs.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
We'll get rid of that for now, but look straight
onto the obvious one. We're going to talk about. The
quake last night centered just off Tia. Now that was
it was a bolt out of the blue, let's be honest.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Yeah, you know, it's been a while since we've had
a decent quake. And yeah, to get the tsunami warning
last night that you know, we don't get that very
often in New Zealand, especially if it's a local earthquake.
So a good a good reminder to everybody that we
live in a country that is forever changing, whether it's
you know, earthquakes that lift up the sea as we
(22:57):
saw around Kaikuta a few years ago, or whether it's
a landslide or a tsunami, or just when we get
floods from storms, you know, our landscape is always changing,
and we know that, we all know that as New Zealanders,
but we forget it. You do forget it when you
go through quiet spells over a long time. So glad
to see that it wasn't worse it could have been.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
So yeah, So in these warnings come out to evacuate,
you don't mark around, you evacuate.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Yeah, that's right. I mean, it is one of those
cases of better to be safe than sorry. And so
if you do it, get a tsunami warning, you definitely
have to pay attention to it because even if it
doesn't happen, it is good preparation and normalization of something
that because we don't get them often enough, we don't
treat them like we do weather warnings. You know, when
you get a severe weather warning and you know that
(23:46):
it's going to be really you know, if you're going
to get one hundred and forty kilometer are in our winds,
you're preparing yourself for that. And as much as you can.
Tsunami alerts, you know, warnings, we don't get very many
of them, and so we can quite often dismiss them
and go, are won't be march. It's not going to
be anything. You know that, I do understand that way
of thinking. But at the same time, there's a reason
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why at weather Watch we have always jumped in to
the deep end whenever it's excuse the pump, whenever there
is a tsunami warning issue for New Zealand. Even if
it's a five centimeter tsunami in the end, that is
still a wall of water. Even at five centimeters, that's
on top of the normal sea level, and that can
cause problems, not too many at that level, but the
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ones that go bigger than that, even if they are
only half a meter, that's still actually more than what
you think it's I always think of it as being
like a bit of a flash flood on top of
the sea. You know, It's like this extra layer that
we don't think about. And so whenever there's one that's
in America or Japan or Chile or wherever it is,
it's really good for us to actually normalize a warning,
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and by that I mean understand what it is and
do what you're told to do, because one day there
will be a time where we do get a damaging tsunami.
That've happened in the past, and in fact, Otago was
one of the worst affected areas in New Zealand from
a tsunami a very long time ago that killed people,
and so over one hundred years ago, a couple hundred
(25:09):
years ago, it might have been actually, you know, so
we do get them and they can be from another
country and usually they often are. Actually, so yeah, good
good learning curve for us all just to be reminded
of what to do and to just keep on your feet.
But really glad that this one was a nothing in
the sense of that tsunami that is.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah, so what's takening over the next seven days for
the south will Yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Well back to what I actually know more about.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Well, I thought you counted it up pretty well.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Oh, I thank you. Where the forecasters do actually cover
tsunami because when you think about it, you don't you know, gee,
don't make a daily video about earthquakes. And so we
are we are a source of natural disasters. People come
to us whenever there's a volcanic eruption and ash clouds
and things like that, So we are we are kind
of skilled to some degree in that area. But when
it comes to the weather, where the forecasters around New
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Zealand have got a bit of time to put their
feet up because we don't have a lot of severe
weather coming through over the next I'm going to say
six days. I'm not going to say week. I'll get
to that in a moment. But we do have a
pretty settle period of weather thanks to an enormous area
of high pressure that stretches from the Indian Ocean right
across southern Australia, right across the Tasman Sea over parts
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of New Zealand. It'll move around the New Zealand area
and then it carries on out over towards the International Dateline.
So in short, that high pressure belt is about twelve
thousand kilometers across and we are one thousand, six hundred
kilometers lengthwise, so we are we could set a number
of New Zealands in this high pressure belt. So it's
(26:40):
it's going to be fairly settled. But as I say,
we're on the edge of the high pressure. So tomorrow
you do have some wet weather coming through. That'll probably
come through, and towards the afternoon and evening bit of
a cold front coming through, so the temperatures drop, so
Sunday's colder and you go back to Frost's Sunday night.
Monday night warms up a little bit going into the
(27:01):
next week, but then the end of next week we
might be looking at our first Antarctic southerly of the year,
but it is not yet locked in. It's too messy
to lock in just yet, but it is showing up
on the long range maps. Today, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
are all dry or mostly dry, so there might be
(27:21):
a shower, but not going to be much mostly dry.
That changes at the end of next week, so around
about Thursday nights going into Friday. It doesn't at this
stage look like a major rain event, but there is
this cold front coming through, and some of the long
range maps are showing that the southerly wind is coming
off Antarctica or very close to it, and we actually
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haven't had that very much this winter. We've had cold
southerly's and they've brought snow, but we have not had
that super chilled air. Now when I look at your temperatures,
they don't reflect an Antarctic glass just yet. It shows
the maximum next Friday of eight degrees. Next weekend maximum
of eight degrees both Saturday and Sunday. The twenty fifth
and twenty sixth of July and the overnight temperatures are
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around two to four degrees, So it'll just depend on
if that wet weather at the end of next week
and next weekend is occurring when the temperatures drop down
to two degrees at night, that's the part that I'm
looking for. So we might be seeing the chance of
some lower level snow, but it is too far out
to lock in, and we won't know probably until Monday
(28:27):
or Tuesday of next week.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
So it's a matter of just being patient and playing
with some in front of you for the next couple
of days. A supposed to going to frame ya.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
Either way, there is it does look like there will
be a change at some point at the end of
the next week that will be more unsettled than the
weather pattern we've got at the moment. But yeah, there's
a lot of high pressure, and I know that the
weather is quiet because our weather videos aren't rating as well,
about half the number of viewers at the moment, and
that's always a sign of people have looked at their
local forecast and gone, Okay, there's not nothing to really
(28:55):
see here, but there are a few little things, and
we do have some showers in the next, there are
some frost in the mix, probably get a bit of fog.
Patches are possible, although I don't think fog will be widespread,
but there is the chance of some fog around this
Sunday and Monday, or some low cloud around.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
I'm still waiting to hear a weather forecast with a
jingle plays and the forecast and the presenter simply goes, yeah,
it's good.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Yeah, gotta be good. If I could get paid the
same amount of money to do that, I would do that.
But people apparently like me talking, so.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
They certainly appreciate your doulcin tones on the muster Peel
dunk and out of weather Watch.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Thanks your time as always.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
That's right. I hope you have a nice calm weekend.
You know, shaken not stirred.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Soil dunk out of where the watch go and follow
them on the social media channels doing a fantastic job
every Friday.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Here on the Muster.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Up next Steve Ellison out of Bioactive Soils.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
This is the Muster on Hokanui.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Now you'll hear on the Country Crossover that we have
a new sponsor on the muster planed on Fridays.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Of course it is bioactive soils.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Steve Allison joins us this afternoon in studio.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Steve, howse sas.
Speaker 12 (30:15):
Not high handy, fantastic, It's a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Yeah, it's great to have you in studio.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
We spoke to you a couple of months ago before
the Southern Field Days that you guys are there firstly
that event there because you guys have been pretty busy
over the past couple of months.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
How was it. How's it all been since I suppose.
Speaker 12 (30:32):
We got cleaned out? Sorry, all our fertilizer went out
over the last few months, but we're busy during overtime refilling, restocking.
I'd just like to say, Andy, it's good to see
a lot of our farmers are off overseas, like it's good.
Speaker 13 (30:47):
For them to have leisure time. It's it's it's it's
cool that well deserved. I think this year.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Well, I've just been overseas recently as well. It used
to be a.
Speaker 13 (30:54):
Cocky Does that count h yeah, okay, good one, yes,
but you did.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Right, there's Steve.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
It's about having that time off farm making it work,
and a lot of people say, well, it's easier said
than done, but sometimes just having a bit of a
reset makes all the difference.
Speaker 12 (31:10):
Well, I'm just going to talk about farm utopia with
us with Biactive, and that's where you no longer have
vet bills, you no longer worry about having enough quality
grass and crops, you no longer feel under siege from
invasive insects, and more importantly, you have more leisure time,
which we talked about, more quality time, and also more
(31:34):
bang for dollars. So your bank account, which probably at
the moment isn't too bad, but it does a lot
infinitely better.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
The Bioactive story, when does it all start, Steve.
Speaker 13 (31:44):
Well, I'll talk about the product.
Speaker 12 (31:46):
We drag him from the ocean, crustaceans, a lot of fish,
unbelievable amount of fish, seaweed, and we produce a solid
egg fertilized. Now out of that we produce with enzymes.
It breaks it all down, but it's a solid, not liquid.
(32:07):
Out of that, we extract sulfur, which I see at
the moment it's heading towards nineteen hundred dollars a ton.
Speaker 13 (32:12):
Well houses nowhere any of that.
Speaker 12 (32:14):
We extract phosphorus ocean out of the ocean, ammonia from
the fish, and trace elements from the seaweed, and more
importantly with the fish, we improve the protein value of
the grass or the crops. So that's the complex and
menio acids probably around about twelve of those, which you're
lucky to get one or two out of the use
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of your ear.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
I think it's just the opportunity as well at the
moment when you're looking at fur prices and the way
things have gone, if you want to look at other options, well,
like you talked about, then Steve certainly a lot cheaper
than what you're going to pay in a lot of
other avenues.
Speaker 13 (32:50):
Infinitely, So I forgot to add in there. Sorry.
Speaker 12 (32:54):
We actually produce a pot ash k as well, so
all this is home ground. It's made down in our
factory in Kennington, and the farmer benefits by that.
Speaker 13 (33:04):
We kick your ear into touch.
Speaker 12 (33:05):
We've got a product there eight ninety seven per a ton,
and that's by phishen leaves it for dead because in
there it is also natural byside, which is recolonizes your
soils or some of those things have never been seen
in your soils to counter all those creepy Crawley's nasties
(33:28):
that frustrates farmers. So much because they lose the apaddics
to grass grub, prino. We've all greasy cuddle worm, all
those things.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Greasy cattle worm. That's something to keep an eye on,
isn't it.
Speaker 13 (33:39):
Yeah, not good.
Speaker 12 (33:41):
We've been pulled up to the North Island to deal
with a lot of that because they would lose all
their pasture and all their crops to it, and the
amazing results up there. But I really want to keep
our product down here and supplying everyone here before we
go too far afield. But we've been asked to do it,
so we don't say.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
No thing with you guys is that you talk about
the biology being in the soil and working with it.
Speaker 13 (34:05):
We don't.
Speaker 12 (34:06):
But there's also we've still got basically virgin soils here
and there's a lot of because biology throughout the world
is much the same within soil, so we're actually bringing
in quite a few different ones and parasitoids and those
things which our sores haven't seen before.
Speaker 13 (34:25):
Now it's legal, so it's all all been okayed.
Speaker 12 (34:27):
Through MPI and we get this miraculous response, which farmer's debate,
how can that be? It's not how it's not how
they saw things, but it doesn't matter. We don't care.
It just doesn't allow grass grub. Your clover stay there.
No more clover, weave all prina. They still come over
(34:48):
the boundary fences. Prina still flies in and lays its eggs,
but it just isn't an environment for them, so they
get gobbled up by these little creepy crawley things. You've
got a happy farmer.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
So how long.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Realistically does it take to get rid of grass grub
and perina once you're proactive about it.
Speaker 12 (35:08):
We've there's a bit of parinha around now, quite a bit,
and it's usually in two and three year old grasses,
but it's throughout anyway. Generally three weeks we would would
notice a change quite quickly. But it also puts up resistance,
whereas if you're spraying, you've actually got to keep spraying,
(35:29):
whereas with this you get a natural resistance going. So
how long would it take? Three to four weeks? Five
weeks as a rule, Yeah, that's that's what most farmers
see happening.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
So you're not liquid, but your solid form application wise,
how does it work with you guys?
Speaker 13 (35:46):
Normally it's usually bulkies, local bulkies.
Speaker 12 (35:49):
It can go and with the dairy farmers with their
toe behinds, helicopters, the aeroplanes.
Speaker 13 (35:58):
Yeah, no, it's it's any any manner of spreading.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
So farmers when they've started using the products that you
guys supply a biorect of soils, these deep what's the
biggest difference they're noticing?
Speaker 12 (36:09):
Would you say their paddics stay green No longer. We
get those stories all the time at the moment, especially
in those arid areas. The other side of it is
the animals go in and they like they hate moving
cows or discontented animals that content. They don't need to
(36:30):
eat as much to get a full tummy. It's a
bit like us, you know, fast food doesn't fill us
up as much as what Mum used to cop for
us when we were kids. So that's the bigger difference.
But the big one is our paddocks don't get don't
go yellow, and those green splotches where there's been cowpats
(36:51):
or sheep sheep poop, they even up in green all
the way through, which is a good bio mass activity,
which is what we give. We feed the bio mass,
and that's the challenge. The biomess has been burned out
by other nitrogens. We feed it and keep it going
so it's more sustainable.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
And the big thing of you guys are likely produced.
Like you talked about, supplied chains.
Speaker 13 (37:14):
Not a problem, yep, Kennington. You're welcome to come down
and have a look.
Speaker 12 (37:18):
We've got about three football fields of factory, which is
too small. We draw off twenty different fishing companies and
were also pulling our own seaweed, but worried that we're
not going to keep up this year because we cleaned out.
The winter's been a bit short for us. We've got
orders now because we do that all up through Canterbury.
They've already started carving. But it's okay. We'll make it work.
(37:41):
If someone's willing, we're more than happy to try to
help supply them this year.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Steve Bioactive Soils, somebody wants to get in touch, how
do they do it?
Speaker 12 (37:52):
If you look on our website by Active Soils or
phone number oh to one, double seven, double nine one
to one, double seven, double nine, one nine, and that'll
go straight to me.
Speaker 13 (38:04):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
You're on your Steve Steve Ellison of Bioactive Soils and
sponsors of the Country Crossover.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
Here on the muster. Thanks for coming against GEO this afternoon.
Speaker 13 (38:13):
Thank you Andy.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
This is the Master on Hokanui.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Mark Kelly is executive producer at US Talk ZB Sport
and joins US this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
MK. Good afternoon. Look the Warres. They've got the Dragons
this weekend.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
The Broncos arguably did the competition of favor last night
betting the Panthers, so there's an opportunity to try and
clew away at the first place.
Speaker 11 (38:44):
Yeah, good Andie, thanks for having me on mate. Yeah,
huge opportunity. Get it went over the Dragon, so reduce
it second, deduce at rock bottom, actually at the table seventeenth.
Only two wins this year are really a huge opportunity
to get within two points of Penrith and we do
have a bit of a tough old run home. We've
(39:05):
got the Bulldogs next week who do something. Eleventh but
a bit of a banana skin, the Titans and sixteenth
and then Panthers, Broncos, Bunnies, Knights, Eagles. So four out
of five of those teams are in the top eight.
So these wins are huge for not just trying to
win that minor premiership, but staying in that top four,
So you do have that lucky loser spot in the
(39:27):
first round of the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
And her history determines if you're not in the top four,
then arguably you're not going to win the competition.
Speaker 11 (39:34):
Yeah, exactly that, And you just got to it's gone
of the Day's Warriors as a team in the fan base,
where top eight is good enough for a season. With
how we've been this year pretty much being in the
top four since round one, sort of the goals are high.
It's not just sort of getting into that top four.
(39:56):
It is making the elimination of the prelim finals and
it is a Grand five and hopefully winning that. But
we've seen with the competition this week that no games
are easy. You can slip up against the West Tigers,
you can slip up against the Broncos or anything in
the NRL. It's a fantastic comp for any team can
when on the.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Day kirk Kate, well, he's extended for another year and
this is showing that the trend is being back to
Australia's finding excuses to go back to their own side
of the ditch.
Speaker 11 (40:25):
Yeah, yeah, huge to get kirk Kate will back and
he'll be back in the lineup after Origin Judy with
Mitch Barnett the co captain. So yeah, great, great that
is And yeah, it's a tough one with the sort
of obviously the Luke Metcals even just mentioning Mitch Barnett
he's heading back to Australia to play for the Broncos
next year, but he does have a son that's quite unwell,
(40:46):
so he wants to be closer, closer to home. And
I'm fine when there's stories like that when there is
a reason for and Aussie to go back, But the
likes of the Metcalfs to Adam Vanilla Blake's that have
just pulled the compassionate leave thing is it doesn't sit
well with fans and as you mentioned, it kind of
feels like it is sort of moving away from that
(41:06):
and the club has sort of that stuff out. But
that's what success brings a right players want to stay.
And Kirk Kate, while he is an absolute beloved player,
now he's getting a bit of a sense that he
is kind of there a bit like Steve Price back
in the day when he was in the Warriors and
captaining the side has sort of become an unofficial Kiwi.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
Are we going to see Luke Metcalfe back in first grade.
Speaker 11 (41:28):
I'm very surprised he hasn't been in first grade yet,
but the club and Andrew Webster obviously love what to
Murray Martin's doing with the seven jersey, and there has
been what the last three four games, Metcalfe has been
on the extended bench and he has been I think
in the last two weeks been actually just on the bench,
(41:49):
so he is available to play and I think in
sort of go back to the form that he had
in the first twelve rounds of last year when he
was right up there with the dal M Medal rankings,
and that's why we did extend him at the end
of last season to a couple of years extra contract.
And if he can get back to that form, well,
(42:10):
this team is, yeah, the stars of the goal. Really
they can shoot for them.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
The All Blacks take on Islands tomorrow night, the third
game in the Dave Reny era.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
How have you found it? Yeah?
Speaker 11 (42:23):
I think the French game was an interesting one. They
first had out only ten days in camp. You kind
of expect that the French always sort of grow another league.
When they played the All Blacks Italy last week terrible
forty minutes, but then it's sort of unbelievable twenty minutes
to start the second half by the side. Yeah, they
(42:44):
play a lot more exciting brand of football now, don't
they way less kicks? I think they I need to
had seventeen kicks against Italy, which was less than I
think in the South Africa game they had about forty one.
So that's showing that they want to keep possession of
a and yeah, a huge game and added to it
obviously paying at Eden Park, trying to keep that unbeaten
(43:07):
run at Eden Park which dates back to what the
French and nineteen ninety four to fifty two odd games.
So yeah, it's gonna be a really interesting game and
I think the All Blacks will do it. This will
be the game where they really stand out. I believe
Ireland haven't. They're not the same island from the last
sort of eight years with the Joe Schmidt stuff and
the Owen Farrell when they were leading the team. Yeah,
(43:30):
I think the All Blacks will win this one by
twelve and over.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
Now the faith of World Cup ingram gets France is
not coming home to the UK where you all know
about that Spain Argentina has been the grand finale though
that this is a pretty worthy final.
Speaker 11 (43:45):
Yeah, unbelievable. What a game it was yesterday for Argentina
to come back from one nil down with what five
minutes left in regulation to win that two to one. Yeah,
it's amazing what Argentina have been able to do. You
can just see that all of their players are just
playing for Messi. They want him to get that second
World Cup. Really put himself arguably the greatest footballer of
(44:09):
all time if he can do that. Spain, on the
other hand, they've only led in one goal in the
whole tournament. They haven't lost a game since March of
twenty twenty four, are in a thirty seven game unbeaten
streak as well. So they're the European champions. So they
will be going into the final on Monday morning, New
Zealand time as favorites. But Argentina like water run. They
(44:30):
haven't read an interesting stat yesterday after the semi final
win that in their four elimination games the last thirty two,
Last sixteen, quarterfinals and semifinals, they haven't led in regular time.
They've gone to extra time on three different occasions, and
then they scored two late goals to beat England yesterday,
(44:50):
So not even leading a game for the first ninety
minutes in an elimination game is pretty incredible to come
away with those four victories.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
As gross the imagination of the viewing public, given it's
been an expanded competition, would you say yeah?
Speaker 11 (45:06):
And I think for us in New Zealand it's it's
the time zone. It's one of those World Cups that's
been brilliant for us is most of the time it's
what's seven am, eleven thirty and one o'clock in the afternoon,
Like we're so used to a World Cup being you've
got to set your alarm at three in the morning
to watch the final or whatever it's it's happening throughout
the night. So I think that helps TV and Z
(45:26):
as well, having having it on their platform and what
forty four dollars forty four to fifty or whatever it
was for the one hundred and four hundred and five
games has been has been awesome? And no, it's been
And I think it's one of these things with the
World Cup. Kiwis don't really care about football for four
years and then when the World Cup comes around, you've
got your office sweepstakes. It's sort of water cooling chat
(45:50):
and it's Yeah, it's been great. And I'm not the
biggest football fan, but I've got around it hugually this
World Cup and i think it's been awesome. Up that
New Zealand obviously had their couple of weeks over there
as well, and it's great to see the All Whites.
They they showed some promise, but we're not a football
in nation. Hwei.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
Just finally the MPC creaking up in a couple of weeks.
The Bayo Pline teamers your beloved team. They'll be looking
good to seeing the squad the other day.
Speaker 4 (46:20):
A lot of super rugby experience.
Speaker 11 (46:23):
Yeah, thirteen sleeps away. We kick off the tournament on
a Thursday night overt FMG Stadium in white at toe
the or bell of the cime Es. Yeah, it will
be interesting. We're sort of not to sound arrogant or cocky,
but we've we've we're going to be when the All
Blacks go away into the South African so we're probably
(46:43):
going to lose about four or five players and that
so there's going to be a make the comp very interesting.
This year with sort of just what team doesn't lose
heaps of players on that South African too, because they're
taking what fifty three fifty four players, it's a lot
more than where you do for a thirty man thirty
four man squad. So yeah, I can't wait. As you know,
(47:05):
and as your listeners know, it's it's the best time.
And he it's my absolute favorite competition in the world.
And yeah, I'll be happy with the top eight squeeze
into the top four and who knows what happens, but yeah,
it's going to be going to be bloody awesome. Andy,
It's a.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
Year of the stag Mark Kelly enjoy the weekend. Always
good to catch.
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Absolutely beautiful afternoon here and Gorse. So if you're around,
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Speaker 4 (01:20):
Good on your notes yet next week.
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called shake It, Shake.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Shame, Shake Shake Shake.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Paknui's five day forecast with twin farm teff from and subtext.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
The proof is in the progeny tear from dot co
dot Inzad.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Friday afternoon sees cloud with breezing nor westerlies into high twelve.
Saturday rain developing in the afternoon with north westerlies four
and twelve. Sunday sunshine and like Westerly's one and ten
Monday sunshine and the cant variable wins zero and nine.
Tuesday is sunshine with raising all westerlyes five and twelve, so.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Temperature just to hand.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
On Friday, Clinton two point nine, Harriet three point six,
Norman south from five point five, Riverton seven point four,
Town now five point five, Tataroa six point four, Winter
and three point seven and woodlands at s Jamie McKay
starts us off this afternoon and the country crossover followed
up by Niger woodhead farming in South Otago.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
We catch up with Nige.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
It's a couple of weeks now, just about since Tom
Slee won the FMG Young Farmer of the Year. Nige
won the competition in twenty seventeen and just tells us
in the aftermath from his perspective what it was like,
especially in a social sense regarding commitments in that Steve
Ellison of Biowacta joins us for a chat bio wack
for soils of course, sponsoring the Country Crossover. Phil Duggan
(03:32):
a weather watch looks at the weather for the next
seven days down here in the South and New sedtig
Zebbie sport producer Mark Colly previews a big weekend of
sporty head the Wires up against the Dragons this weekend.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
The NRL starting to get.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Towards the n nitty gritty part of the season, so
about further ado. We'll start the hour next with Jamie McKay.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
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Speaker 1 (04:13):
Jamie McKay, host of the Country, joins us for this
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Speaker 4 (04:20):
Good afternoon, Jamie. It's been a while since we spoke.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Well, I had a couple of weeks off in Australia
on grandparenting duty. So I've come home from that and
I actually need a holiday from the holiday. Work's been
quite relaxing compared to looking after two grandchildren. Love them
to bits, but they're kind of if they were sheep,
you would call them electric fences. They're free rangers, so
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they had to try and instill a bit of discipline
into them over the two week period.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Do you actually enjoy going to Adelaide, Jamie, or is
it just having to do a box ticking exercise for you? Oh?
Speaker 7 (04:55):
No, no, no, I love Adelaide. I mean to be honest.
My daughter Rebecca and her husband Jane. He's got a
big swimming pool business. They went to a conference in Manila,
so there's two sets of grandparents. It wasn't too bad
at all. Look, I love I love Adelaide. It's a
lot of kiwi's myself included. I've never been there and
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probably don't have a reason to go. They're the only
reason I've spent time there obviously is because of family.
But it's a great city and for a sporting aficionado
like yourself, the Adelaide Oval is one of the great
sports grounds in the world and it's right smack in
the middle of the city and the city it's nearly
the same size as Auckland, but a dream to get
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around compared to Auckland because it's basically just one giant,
big square with the Pidleywee River running through the middle
of it. So it's it's It's designed by the same
bloke who designed christ Church ann in the Cargol Colonel Light,
and I think it's a great city. It's got some
great heritage buildings. It's obviously got wine regions north and south,
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and the Murray River not a mile away, so no look, honestly,
if you're a Kiwi and you're looking for somewhere to go,
it's very hot in the middle of summer. It's quite chilly,
to be honest, in the middle of winter, but go
on the shoulders of the season you'll love it.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Did you not feel the earthquake class night? I send
a message to see who actually what the story was.
I think you're the only person in the South Island
that didn't or in Otago Southland.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
No, I didn't really, I didn't honestly feel it. And
then I got the alerts on my phone saying evacuate, evacuate,
which I guess you better to be safe than sorry,
but no, to be honest, I didn't feel it, not
like the christ Church earthquakes, which we really felt here
in Dunedin. But and I can't even say it was
because I was half stunned on cougar juice because Thursdays
(06:44):
I one of my alcohol free days, anding I proudly
have four of them a week. Anyhow, we've got another game,
of course to watch this afternoon. Is it Riverton this afternoon?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Riverton Southend to Targo there well, its first game of
the years.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
Vote yeah, Otargo versus A. And I'm a Stags fan
through and through like you, but it's a bit like
the League of Nations. When I look through the team,
I don't see that many sort of household South for names,
and I understand why we've got to bring imports. And
I would, to be honest, Andy, as a long suffering fan.
I would just like to see a few more local
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lads in there. And we've lost a cracker and I
know you interviewed him, I think last week or earlier
this week, Morgan Mitchell. You know guys like that who
were born and bred in the province and who would
die for the for the big s on the less
on the left breast. So you know, hopefully a few
more local players can come through. Good to see Gregor
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Rutlege in there. That's three generations of them.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
You can't doubt the genetics and that family. James's amazing MPC.
I think it starts in a couple of weeks. Actually, yeah,
And we've got some good talent there.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Michael.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
Good to see Michael Manson. He must have seven's commitments. No,
he's good for the NPC, I think, oh good, Well,
I love watching him. Scott Gregor is a good player,
So you know we'll go all right, Nick Sheerer. But
as I say, I'll support them through thick and thin.
I'd just like to see some more local talent in there.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Yeah, no argument.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Now, it's been an interesting week in politics. We'll start
off the Green Party. I could just say this, where
go out make a cup and tea, go to the pub,
have a point, come back, and I think you'd still
be having a bit of a rent Jamie inter reating
what's coming.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Out of their four walls over the past seven days.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Sorry you just cut out on me, are we? But
there was that my cue to have a rant about
the Greens.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Yeah, where you go, I'm way to put the joke.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
No, no, no no, I just think that you know, you've
got to respect what they stand for.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
I don't.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
I've got a lot less respect for the Greens than
I used to back in the days when Rod Donald
and Jeanette fitz Simon's were leading the Green Party. I
had a lot to do with Rod Donald. They were
an environment environment party, not a socialist activist party like
they are now. And James Sure, I really had a
lot of time for him, but the Greens didn't. They
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engineered him out of there because he was too centrist.
If you want so, look, I just think, look, they're dangerous,
they're really dangerous. Labor we might have to live with
who knows, but if you get if the Opportunity Party
and I had Daniel Ebb on the show earlier in
the week, who's their Deputy leader, and I've known for
a number of years. Make no mistake about it. If
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you're voting for the Opportunity Party because they're brand new
and sexy and you like some of the stuff they're
going on about universal income and land tax and all that,
you will get a center left government. So it's going
to be an unholy alliance between Labor, the Greens, to
Party Maori and the Opportunity Party. And honestly, you know,
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people were free to vote how they want to and
you've got to respect democracy. But I just think, look
this land tax. For instance, you got a ten million
dollar dairy farm or something. There's fifty grand a year
that's going out in a land So you need to
think about these things. And worse than the Opportunity part
I mean, the Greens will never get their water and
(10:08):
fertilizer plan through, but they will be chipping away at labor,
and I think to be fed of labor. I think
Joe Luxton's been put in there to be a nice,
non contentious person in the agg portfolio. Chippy's made it
a good effort, along with Federated Farmers, to listen to
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what farmers need and want and what the country wants,
so I'll give them credit for that. But the Greens
are anti farming, That's just it. They're anti farming. To
party Mari, well, don't even start me with some of
their policies, you know. But you're free to vote how
you want. But seriously, you were talking about Adelaide. I
could be spending more time over there, Andy.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Paul Henry as well putting his name forward for ACT.
This is very clever on their behalf.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Oh he'll shake things up already's shaken things up and
ACT see Acts in danger. This is a smart move
by David Seymour because they've lost one of their most
effective people or they're going to Brook van Valden. I
think she's been really effective and brave in her portfolio.
Remember she's fronted the pay equity thing, which hasn't been
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popular at all, but it saved the country a hell
of a lot of money. So she's gone. I don't
know how long Paul Henry will last, whether he'll go
straight into a cabinet if we have a center right government,
but he says things that other people are afraid to say,
and we've kind of seen in this build up to
this election the celebrity candidate. I mean he's probably the biggest.
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But you think of Michael Laws and he's a controversial
figure at the best of times, but he's flamboyant, he's colorful,
he speaks his mind. You've got Tyane Randall and then
they've got the've lassued old Stu Nash and who's always
a bit of a loose cannon but always entertaining as well.
So New Zealand First has got on for high profile
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candidates and I think and I haven't changed. I've seen
nothing to make the change my mind, Andy. I think
New Zealand First is going to poll really well in
this election, and it will be mainly at the expense
of the National Party, and to a lesser degree act
maybe Paul Henry might stem some of the bleeding. Look,
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it's going to be interesting as I see it. And
I think that the Opportunity Party haven't come under enough
scrutiny or certainly their policies haven't.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Andy.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
But if the Opportunity Party gets past the five percent threshold,
we've got to change a government.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Good only Jamie enjoy the weekend.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Yep, go this well, you go the Stags this afternoon
and I'm really looking forward to that all black match
at Eden Park, a real test for Dave Rennie Tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Night, Jamie McKay and the country crossover thanks.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
To Bioactive Soils. Up next on the muster away to
South of Tigo Nige would.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Here we catch.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
Up Gregory Ebitts, the artist.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
The song there is Shaky Down.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
The theme today is, of course, shake after the Mother,
after Mother Nature last night, letting us know that she
is all around us.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
This is the muster.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
We're catching up next with Nigel wood Head farming in
South Otago between Burcluther and Milton Good afternoon night house Siggs.
Speaker 9 (13:26):
The afternoon and anything's pretty good today. The sun is
quite high, cloud now, the summer shining earlier on and
yeah we took a long.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Good now you didn't feel the quake last night? You
were in transit.
Speaker 9 (13:39):
Yeah, we were driving, so I didn't feel it. But yeah,
it sounds like a a bit of a shakedown around
the place.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yeah, but of just to wake up called Mother Nature,
Like I say, letting snow.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
She's about the.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Weather this week though it's been pretty good all things considered.
It's just winter being winter and a few warmer afternoons.
Speaker 9 (13:57):
Yeah, we had a handful weeping of rain five or
six miles the other night. But apart from that, it's
been really good. Days like today, it slowly drives the
place out.
Speaker 10 (14:08):
And you know, we've got every thing apart from a
wee more beus its on crop now and grand conditions
are really good, and it's yeah every days.
Speaker 9 (14:18):
Really, we'll take winter if it's what it's like. But yeah,
ten days ago shows a different story.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Man, it was wet and just getting little signs of
not spring like conditions.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Let's be honest about it.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Today's are stating the length and so you know you
just kind of grasp with those wee straws at the moment,
but they are there.
Speaker 9 (14:37):
Yeah, well we're what are we now? We're halfway through July. Yeah,
halfway through July, and usually in August that starts to
starts to warm up a bit, and.
Speaker 11 (14:47):
There's usually a period of time there.
Speaker 9 (14:49):
In August where it's beautiful and warm and all the
brakes dry out and get rid of the wet weather
gear for a few days. So yeah, look it's yeah,
that's wheter time. You got to expect what we've been having.
So it's lock say, it's doesn't mean too bad.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Really, it's almost a circuit break. You're leaving the leaguings
off for a couple of days.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
Well, every year in August you get a warm block
I say, warm pitch, and you put the legings away
and get the boots out and think, here we go,
springs here and then it only last about two days
in it and it ships the beard again and you're
gonna go put the way to get back off. So
it's yeah, just it's just something I got to expect.
But that's like I say, it's winter time where we're
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handling it pretty good, and if it carries on like this,
will be will be happy enough.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Scanning results as you as you expect.
Speaker 9 (15:40):
No, it wasn't quite what I expect that. It was
up and up a bit. Actually I was not expecting that. Yeah,
we ended up sort of mid one nineties, which was
it will be the best with laying laying off skinned
and yeah up six track seemed on last year. So yeah,
and edible result. We definitely were not expecting that. And
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probably the biggest, the most pleasing thing was that the
Tudoo scanned one hundred and ninety odd as well, which
I didn't expect that out of them, like they're their
reasonable tutoos, But if you looked at them, you wouldn't
think they've got that one hundred and ninety in them.
So we obviously got something right in the autumn. And yeah,
hapy days. Now just got to try and keep them
all alive.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
So how's the crops going as far as eating wise.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
Not too bad yet. We've got two mobs of kettle
on fot of meat, one of them eating about as
much as they should and the other mile of hawking
through their fota meat. You're either eating more than they
should be, or the croppers where I yielded the crop
I overestimated it, or the combination of the two. But
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just sort of trying not to overfeed them but at
the same time keep them fully feed and just poking
as much bailerge into them as we can without making
a mess with the tractor. That's all right at the moment,
but yeah, last week it was but hard work getting
around getting bailing and defeeders for kettle on crop and
to use mixtage. The mixtage multiples are twins and singles
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have got so they're done two days on five I've
eating two days on kale, and yeah, they're getting pretty
well transitioned now, so they're enjoying that. And what else
we've got habits are on carl and plantain and are
on suite, so everything's taken along pretty well actually, But
like I say that, one more of the balls on beat,
they might come off of it earlier than I was anticipating.
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And yeah, the hobbits are hooking through the carl and
plantain too, but I think we'll be able to We
might be able to grab a weaker swedes or something
else with them at the end to get them through
before they get start the old rotation.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Now you were at count your cal u's pre lambing,
is that correct?
Speaker 9 (17:48):
Yeah, so well, when we do our prelim in or health,
we'll mouth everything for all the old use and anything
with a shot mouth or anything that's cal fraid jaw,
it's going to go where you identify them, then lamb them.
Separate round the yard here, just kicking close to the house,
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keep the freezer. You separate right the way through and
usually we'll share them to the middle of November and
then kill them second week of December those years and
win the lambs a web earlier, but in the past
we've actually sold some or all of those freezer us
with lambs at foot in the end of October if
it starts getting bit tight as well, so it's quite
a good lever. It lets us start destocking. If it's
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getting a bit tight, like saying October, we can pull
pen and sell them then or in a normal year
whatever that looks like. We'll kill them in second week
of December and it freeze up a heap attacker for
putting with the feeding and freeze a bit of feed
up for weaning around Christmas time here, and.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
The prices are looking pretty good. Last Jobby spokes here
as well.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
We'll mentioned this forgetting Tom see getting the Eccolades and
the farmer comp now two weeks on Nige, but you
would have been pretty chapped around that.
Speaker 9 (19:05):
Oh Stoke, Yeah, that Stoke. That's I mean, obviously to
see the trophy come back the Tiger Southlands awesome. But
Thom's Thom's worked really hard and you know, great men,
and obviously he's been a family history of here as well,
so that yeah, it was really cool to see him
take it out and he was the first timer in
that Grand Final, coming up against a couple of more
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seasoned campaigners, a couple of guys have been here before
and Minister took them up. So yeah, it was yeah, yeah,
I have the moan to see him take it. Actually
it is awesome, and yeah he'll be he'll be awesome
investador for for young farmers and for agriculture in New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Was that like that for you when you won Nightge
all of a sudden you felt like you had a
bit of a responsibility for the industry to be an ambassador.
Speaker 9 (19:52):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just this sort of Yeah,
I think I spoke about it last time, like, all
of a sudden, the person that people want to hear
from and people want to know what's going on, and
you know, all of a sudden, it's like you're the
young farm of the year. You're sort of put up
on this pedestal and I don't know if Time's expecting
you or not. I haven't spoken to him, but I
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definitely wasn't expecting all the all the attention and all
the phone calls and all the invite places here and
there and all that sort of stuff. So yeah, you're
definitely you know, you're definitely held held up in lights
as a representative for agriculture and for young farmers in
New Zealand. And you know, the opportunities that come from
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just being the Young Farmi of the Year a huge.
You know, we had all sorts of random opportunities to
do stuff. We got invited to Wellington to an official
dinner with the President of Ireland and all sorts of
random stuff that just comes out. But it was awesome.
So you just got to make the most of those opportunities.
(20:58):
Because this in twelve months time, after the next years
Grand Final, your old news and someone else's someone else's
going to be the Young Family Year. You've got an
obligation to just get stuck under it and make the
most of the opportunities.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Yeah, great way to look at it.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Nights we'll leave it there, enjoy the weekend and made
this way to continue.
Speaker 9 (21:18):
Yeah every day. Thanks Eddie.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Noja wat he in South Otago, this is the muster
speaking of the weather.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Full Duncan of weather Watch gives us the forecast for
the South over the next seven days. He's next.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Brings the voice to the yard and they're.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Like, welcome back to the Muster. Of the thing today
is shakes.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
He's the reason we're playing Calise and Milkshake Downetheless, it's
time for Phull Duncan from weather Watch.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
It's a song about a shake, but it's also about milkshakes.
Good afternoon, silk.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
It makes me think of all the dairy farmers with
all the cows rocking back and forth for a time
last night.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Yeah, good songs.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
We'll get rid of that for now, but look straight
onto the obvious one. We're going to talk about. The
quake last night centered just off Tia. Now that was
it was a bolt out of the blue, let's be honest.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Yeah, you know, it's been a while since we've had
a decent quake. And yeah, to get the tsunami warning
last night that you know, we don't get that very
often in New Zealand, especially if it's a local earthquake.
So a good a good reminder to everybody that we
live in a country that is forever changing, whether it's
you know, earthquakes that lift up the sea as we
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saw around Kaikuta a few years ago, or whether it's
a landslide or a tsunami, or just when we get
floods from storms, you know, our landscape is always changing,
and we know that, we all know that as New Zealanders,
but we forget it. You do forget it when you
go through quiet spells over a long time. So glad
to see that it wasn't worse it could have been.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
So yeah, So in these warnings come out to evacuate,
you don't mark around, you evacuate.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Yeah, that's right. I mean, it is one of those
cases of better to be safe than sorry. And so
if you do it, get a tsunami warning, you definitely
have to pay attention to it because even if it
doesn't happen, it is good preparation and normalization of something
that because we don't get them often enough, we don't
treat them like we do weather warnings. You know, when
you get a severe weather warning and you know that
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it's going to be really you know, if you're going
to get one hundred and forty kilometer are in our winds,
you're preparing yourself for that. And as much as you can.
Tsunami alerts, you know, warnings, we don't get very many
of them, and so we can quite often dismiss them
and go, are won't be march. It's not going to
be anything. You know that, I do understand that way
of thinking. But at the same time, there's a reason
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why at weather Watch we have always jumped in to
the deep end whenever it's excuse the pump, whenever there
is a tsunami warning issue for New Zealand. Even if
it's a five centimeter tsunami in the end, that is
still a wall of water. Even at five centimeters, that's
on top of the normal sea level, and that can
cause problems, not too many at that level, but the
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ones that go bigger than that, even if they are
only half a meter, that's still actually more than what
you think it's I always think of it as being
like a bit of a flash flood on top of
the sea. You know, It's like this extra layer that
we don't think about. And so whenever there's one that's
in America or Japan or Chile or wherever it is,
it's really good for us to actually normalize a warning,
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and by that I mean understand what it is and
do what you're told to do, because one day there
will be a time where we do get a damaging tsunami.
That've happened in the past, and in fact, Otago was
one of the worst affected areas in New Zealand from
a tsunami a very long time ago that killed people,
and so over one hundred years ago, a couple hundred
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years ago, it might have been actually, you know, so
we do get them and they can be from another
country and usually they often are. Actually, so yeah, good
good learning curve for us all just to be reminded
of what to do and to just keep on your feet.
But really glad that this one was a nothing in
the sense of that tsunami that is.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah, so what's takening over the next seven days for
the south will Yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Well back to what I actually know more about.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Well, I thought you counted it up pretty well.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Oh, I thank you. Where the forecasters do actually cover
tsunami because when you think about it, you don't you know, gee,
don't make a daily video about earthquakes. And so we
are we are a source of natural disasters. People come
to us whenever there's a volcanic eruption and ash clouds
and things like that, So we are we are kind
of skilled to some degree in that area. But when
it comes to the weather, where the forecasters around New
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Zealand have got a bit of time to put their
feet up because we don't have a lot of severe
weather coming through over the next I'm going to say
six days. I'm not going to say week. I'll get
to that in a moment. But we do have a
pretty settle period of weather thanks to an enormous area
of high pressure that stretches from the Indian Ocean right
across southern Australia, right across the Tasman Sea over parts
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of New Zealand. It'll move around the New Zealand area
and then it carries on out over towards the International Dateline.
So in short, that high pressure belt is about twelve
thousand kilometers across and we are one thousand, six hundred
kilometers lengthwise, so we are we could set a number
of New Zealands in this high pressure belt. So it's
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it's going to be fairly settled. But as I say,
we're on the edge of the high pressure. So tomorrow
you do have some wet weather coming through. That'll probably
come through, and towards the afternoon and evening bit of
a cold front coming through, so the temperatures drop, so
Sunday's colder and you go back to Frost's Sunday night.
Monday night warms up a little bit going into the
(27:01):
next week, but then the end of next week we
might be looking at our first Antarctic southerly of the year,
but it is not yet locked in. It's too messy
to lock in just yet, but it is showing up
on the long range maps. Today, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
are all dry or mostly dry, so there might be
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a shower, but not going to be much mostly dry.
That changes at the end of next week, so around
about Thursday nights going into Friday. It doesn't at this
stage look like a major rain event, but there is
this cold front coming through, and some of the long
range maps are showing that the southerly wind is coming
off Antarctica or very close to it, and we actually
(27:44):
haven't had that very much this winter. We've had cold
southerly's and they've brought snow, but we have not had
that super chilled air. Now when I look at your temperatures,
they don't reflect an Antarctic glass just yet. It shows
the maximum next Friday of eight degrees. Next weekend maximum
of eight degrees both Saturday and Sunday. The twenty fifth
and twenty sixth of July and the overnight temperatures are
(28:07):
around two to four degrees, So it'll just depend on
if that wet weather at the end of next week
and next weekend is occurring when the temperatures drop down
to two degrees at night, that's the part that I'm
looking for. So we might be seeing the chance of
some lower level snow, but it is too far out
to lock in, and we won't know probably until Monday
(28:27):
or Tuesday of next week.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
So it's a matter of just being patient and playing
with some in front of you for the next couple
of days. A supposed to going to frame ya.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
Either way, there is it does look like there will
be a change at some point at the end of
the next week that will be more unsettled than the
weather pattern we've got at the moment. But yeah, there's
a lot of high pressure, and I know that the
weather is quiet because our weather videos aren't rating as well,
about half the number of viewers at the moment, and
that's always a sign of people have looked at their
local forecast and gone, Okay, there's not nothing to really
(28:55):
see here, but there are a few little things, and
we do have some showers in the next, there are
some frost in the mix, probably get a bit of fog.
Patches are possible, although I don't think fog will be widespread,
but there is the chance of some fog around this
Sunday and Monday, or some low cloud around.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
I'm still waiting to hear a weather forecast with a
jingle plays and the forecast and the presenter simply goes, yeah,
it's good.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Yeah, gotta be good. If I could get paid the
same amount of money to do that, I would do that.
But people apparently like me talking, so.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
They certainly appreciate your doulcin tones on the muster Peel
dunk and out of weather Watch.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Thanks your time as always.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
That's right. I hope you have a nice calm weekend.
You know, shaken not stirred.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Soil dunk out of where the watch go and follow
them on the social media channels doing a fantastic job
every Friday.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Here on the Muster.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Up next Steve Ellison out of Bioactive Soils.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
This is the Muster on Hokanui.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Now you'll hear on the Country Crossover that we have
a new sponsor on the muster planed on Fridays.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Of course it is bioactive soils.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Steve Allison joins us this afternoon in studio.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Steve, howse sas.
Speaker 12 (30:15):
Not high handy, fantastic, It's a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Yeah, it's great to have you in studio.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
We spoke to you a couple of months ago before
the Southern Field Days that you guys are there firstly
that event there because you guys have been pretty busy
over the past couple of months.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
How was it. How's it all been since I suppose.
Speaker 12 (30:32):
We got cleaned out? Sorry, all our fertilizer went out
over the last few months, but we're busy during overtime refilling, restocking.
I'd just like to say, Andy, it's good to see
a lot of our farmers are off overseas, like it's good.
Speaker 13 (30:47):
For them to have leisure time. It's it's it's it's
cool that well deserved. I think this year.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Well, I've just been overseas recently as well. It used
to be a.
Speaker 13 (30:54):
Cocky Does that count h yeah, okay, good one, yes,
but you did.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Right, there's Steve.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
It's about having that time off farm making it work,
and a lot of people say, well, it's easier said
than done, but sometimes just having a bit of a
reset makes all the difference.
Speaker 12 (31:10):
Well, I'm just going to talk about farm utopia with
us with Biactive, and that's where you no longer have
vet bills, you no longer worry about having enough quality
grass and crops, you no longer feel under siege from
invasive insects, and more importantly, you have more leisure time,
which we talked about, more quality time, and also more
(31:34):
bang for dollars. So your bank account, which probably at
the moment isn't too bad, but it does a lot
infinitely better.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
The Bioactive story, when does it all start, Steve.
Speaker 13 (31:44):
Well, I'll talk about the product.
Speaker 12 (31:46):
We drag him from the ocean, crustaceans, a lot of fish,
unbelievable amount of fish, seaweed, and we produce a solid
egg fertilized. Now out of that we produce with enzymes.
It breaks it all down, but it's a solid, not liquid.
(32:07):
Out of that, we extract sulfur, which I see at
the moment it's heading towards nineteen hundred dollars a ton.
Speaker 13 (32:12):
Well houses nowhere any of that.
Speaker 12 (32:14):
We extract phosphorus ocean out of the ocean, ammonia from
the fish, and trace elements from the seaweed, and more
importantly with the fish, we improve the protein value of
the grass or the crops. So that's the complex and
menio acids probably around about twelve of those, which you're
lucky to get one or two out of the use
(32:35):
of your ear.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
I think it's just the opportunity as well at the
moment when you're looking at fur prices and the way
things have gone, if you want to look at other options, well,
like you talked about, then Steve certainly a lot cheaper
than what you're going to pay in a lot of
other avenues.
Speaker 13 (32:50):
Infinitely, So I forgot to add in there. Sorry.
Speaker 12 (32:54):
We actually produce a pot ash k as well, so
all this is home ground. It's made down in our
factory in Kennington, and the farmer benefits by that.
Speaker 13 (33:04):
We kick your ear into touch.
Speaker 12 (33:05):
We've got a product there eight ninety seven per a ton,
and that's by phishen leaves it for dead because in
there it is also natural byside, which is recolonizes your
soils or some of those things have never been seen
in your soils to counter all those creepy Crawley's nasties
(33:28):
that frustrates farmers. So much because they lose the apaddics
to grass grub, prino. We've all greasy cuddle worm, all
those things.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Greasy cattle worm. That's something to keep an eye on,
isn't it.
Speaker 13 (33:39):
Yeah, not good.
Speaker 12 (33:41):
We've been pulled up to the North Island to deal
with a lot of that because they would lose all
their pasture and all their crops to it, and the
amazing results up there. But I really want to keep
our product down here and supplying everyone here before we
go too far afield. But we've been asked to do it,
so we don't say.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
No thing with you guys is that you talk about
the biology being in the soil and working with it.
Speaker 13 (34:05):
We don't.
Speaker 12 (34:06):
But there's also we've still got basically virgin soils here
and there's a lot of because biology throughout the world
is much the same within soil, so we're actually bringing
in quite a few different ones and parasitoids and those
things which our sores haven't seen before.
Speaker 13 (34:25):
Now it's legal, so it's all all been okayed.
Speaker 12 (34:27):
Through MPI and we get this miraculous response, which farmer's debate,
how can that be? It's not how it's not how
they saw things, but it doesn't matter. We don't care.
It just doesn't allow grass grub. Your clover stay there.
No more clover, weave all prina. They still come over
(34:48):
the boundary fences. Prina still flies in and lays its eggs,
but it just isn't an environment for them, so they
get gobbled up by these little creepy crawley things. You've
got a happy farmer.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
So how long.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Realistically does it take to get rid of grass grub
and perina once you're proactive about it.
Speaker 12 (35:08):
We've there's a bit of parinha around now, quite a bit,
and it's usually in two and three year old grasses,
but it's throughout anyway. Generally three weeks we would would
notice a change quite quickly. But it also puts up resistance,
whereas if you're spraying, you've actually got to keep spraying,
(35:29):
whereas with this you get a natural resistance going. So
how long would it take? Three to four weeks? Five
weeks as a rule, Yeah, that's that's what most farmers
see happening.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
So you're not liquid, but your solid form application wise,
how does it work with you guys?
Speaker 13 (35:46):
Normally it's usually bulkies, local bulkies.
Speaker 12 (35:49):
It can go and with the dairy farmers with their
toe behinds, helicopters, the aeroplanes.
Speaker 13 (35:58):
Yeah, no, it's it's any any manner of spreading.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
So farmers when they've started using the products that you
guys supply a biorect of soils, these deep what's the
biggest difference they're noticing?
Speaker 12 (36:09):
Would you say their paddics stay green No longer. We
get those stories all the time at the moment, especially
in those arid areas. The other side of it is
the animals go in and they like they hate moving
cows or discontented animals that content. They don't need to
(36:30):
eat as much to get a full tummy. It's a
bit like us, you know, fast food doesn't fill us
up as much as what Mum used to cop for
us when we were kids. So that's the bigger difference.
But the big one is our paddocks don't get don't
go yellow, and those green splotches where there's been cowpats
(36:51):
or sheep sheep poop, they even up in green all
the way through, which is a good bio mass activity,
which is what we give. We feed the bio mass,
and that's the challenge. The biomess has been burned out
by other nitrogens. We feed it and keep it going
so it's more sustainable.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
And the big thing of you guys are likely produced.
Like you talked about, supplied chains.
Speaker 13 (37:14):
Not a problem, yep, Kennington. You're welcome to come down
and have a look.
Speaker 12 (37:18):
We've got about three football fields of factory, which is
too small. We draw off twenty different fishing companies and
were also pulling our own seaweed, but worried that we're
not going to keep up this year because we cleaned out.
The winter's been a bit short for us. We've got
orders now because we do that all up through Canterbury.
They've already started carving. But it's okay. We'll make it work.
(37:41):
If someone's willing, we're more than happy to try to
help supply them this year.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Steve Bioactive Soils, somebody wants to get in touch, how
do they do it?
Speaker 12 (37:52):
If you look on our website by Active Soils or
phone number oh to one, double seven, double nine one
to one, double seven, double nine, one nine, and that'll
go straight to me.
Speaker 13 (38:04):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
You're on your Steve Steve Ellison of Bioactive Soils and
sponsors of the Country Crossover.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
Here on the muster. Thanks for coming against GEO this afternoon.
Speaker 13 (38:13):
Thank you Andy.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
This is the Master on Hokanui.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Mark Kelly is executive producer at US Talk ZB Sport
and joins US this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
MK. Good afternoon. Look the Warres. They've got the Dragons
this weekend.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
The Broncos arguably did the competition of favor last night
betting the Panthers, so there's an opportunity to try and
clew away at the first place.
Speaker 11 (38:44):
Yeah, good Andie, thanks for having me on mate. Yeah,
huge opportunity. Get it went over the Dragon, so reduce
it second, deduce at rock bottom, actually at the table seventeenth.
Only two wins this year are really a huge opportunity
to get within two points of Penrith and we do
have a bit of a tough old run home. We've
(39:05):
got the Bulldogs next week who do something. Eleventh but
a bit of a banana skin, the Titans and sixteenth
and then Panthers, Broncos, Bunnies, Knights, Eagles. So four out
of five of those teams are in the top eight.
So these wins are huge for not just trying to
win that minor premiership, but staying in that top four,
So you do have that lucky loser spot in the
(39:27):
first round of the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
And her history determines if you're not in the top four,
then arguably you're not going to win the competition.
Speaker 11 (39:34):
Yeah, exactly that, And you just got to it's gone
of the Day's Warriors as a team in the fan base,
where top eight is good enough for a season. With
how we've been this year pretty much being in the
top four since round one, sort of the goals are high.
It's not just sort of getting into that top four.
(39:56):
It is making the elimination of the prelim finals and
it is a Grand five and hopefully winning that. But
we've seen with the competition this week that no games
are easy. You can slip up against the West Tigers,
you can slip up against the Broncos or anything in
the NRL. It's a fantastic comp for any team can
when on the.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Day kirk Kate, well, he's extended for another year and
this is showing that the trend is being back to
Australia's finding excuses to go back to their own side
of the ditch.
Speaker 11 (40:25):
Yeah, yeah, huge to get kirk Kate will back and
he'll be back in the lineup after Origin Judy with
Mitch Barnett the co captain. So yeah, great, great that
is And yeah, it's a tough one with the sort
of obviously the Luke Metcals even just mentioning Mitch Barnett
he's heading back to Australia to play for the Broncos
next year, but he does have a son that's quite unwell,
(40:46):
so he wants to be closer, closer to home. And
I'm fine when there's stories like that when there is
a reason for and Aussie to go back, But the
likes of the Metcalfs to Adam Vanilla Blake's that have
just pulled the compassionate leave thing is it doesn't sit
well with fans and as you mentioned, it kind of
feels like it is sort of moving away from that
(41:06):
and the club has sort of that stuff out. But
that's what success brings a right players want to stay.
And Kirk Kate, while he is an absolute beloved player,
now he's getting a bit of a sense that he
is kind of there a bit like Steve Price back
in the day when he was in the Warriors and
captaining the side has sort of become an unofficial Kiwi.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
Are we going to see Luke Metcalfe back in first grade.
Speaker 11 (41:28):
I'm very surprised he hasn't been in first grade yet,
but the club and Andrew Webster obviously love what to
Murray Martin's doing with the seven jersey, and there has
been what the last three four games, Metcalfe has been
on the extended bench and he has been I think
in the last two weeks been actually just on the bench,
(41:49):
so he is available to play and I think in
sort of go back to the form that he had
in the first twelve rounds of last year when he
was right up there with the dal M Medal rankings,
and that's why we did extend him at the end
of last season to a couple of years extra contract.
And if he can get back to that form, well,
(42:10):
this team is, yeah, the stars of the goal. Really
they can shoot for them.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
The All Blacks take on Islands tomorrow night, the third
game in the Dave Reny era.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
How have you found it? Yeah?
Speaker 11 (42:23):
I think the French game was an interesting one. They
first had out only ten days in camp. You kind
of expect that the French always sort of grow another league.
When they played the All Blacks Italy last week terrible
forty minutes, but then it's sort of unbelievable twenty minutes
to start the second half by the side. Yeah, they
(42:44):
play a lot more exciting brand of football now, don't
they way less kicks? I think they I need to
had seventeen kicks against Italy, which was less than I
think in the South Africa game they had about forty one.
So that's showing that they want to keep possession of
a and yeah, a huge game and added to it
obviously paying at Eden Park, trying to keep that unbeaten
(43:07):
run at Eden Park which dates back to what the
French and nineteen ninety four to fifty two odd games.
So yeah, it's gonna be a really interesting game and
I think the All Blacks will do it. This will
be the game where they really stand out. I believe
Ireland haven't. They're not the same island from the last
sort of eight years with the Joe Schmidt stuff and
the Owen Farrell when they were leading the team. Yeah,
(43:30):
I think the All Blacks will win this one by
twelve and over.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
Now the faith of World Cup ingram gets France is
not coming home to the UK where you all know
about that Spain Argentina has been the grand finale though
that this is a pretty worthy final.
Speaker 11 (43:45):
Yeah, unbelievable. What a game it was yesterday for Argentina
to come back from one nil down with what five
minutes left in regulation to win that two to one. Yeah,
it's amazing what Argentina have been able to do. You
can just see that all of their players are just
playing for Messi. They want him to get that second
World Cup. Really put himself arguably the greatest footballer of
(44:09):
all time if he can do that. Spain, on the
other hand, they've only led in one goal in the
whole tournament. They haven't lost a game since March of
twenty twenty four, are in a thirty seven game unbeaten
streak as well. So they're the European champions. So they
will be going into the final on Monday morning, New
Zealand time as favorites. But Argentina like water run. They
(44:30):
haven't read an interesting stat yesterday after the semi final
win that in their four elimination games the last thirty two,
Last sixteen, quarterfinals and semifinals, they haven't led in regular time.
They've gone to extra time on three different occasions, and
then they scored two late goals to beat England yesterday,
(44:50):
So not even leading a game for the first ninety
minutes in an elimination game is pretty incredible to come
away with those four victories.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
As gross the imagination of the viewing public, given it's
been an expanded competition, would you say yeah?
Speaker 11 (45:06):
And I think for us in New Zealand it's it's
the time zone. It's one of those World Cups that's
been brilliant for us is most of the time it's
what's seven am, eleven thirty and one o'clock in the afternoon,
Like we're so used to a World Cup being you've
got to set your alarm at three in the morning
to watch the final or whatever it's it's happening throughout
the night. So I think that helps TV and Z
(45:26):
as well, having having it on their platform and what
forty four dollars forty four to fifty or whatever it
was for the one hundred and four hundred and five
games has been has been awesome? And no, it's been
And I think it's one of these things with the
World Cup. Kiwis don't really care about football for four
years and then when the World Cup comes around, you've
got your office sweepstakes. It's sort of water cooling chat
(45:50):
and it's Yeah, it's been great. And I'm not the
biggest football fan, but I've got around it hugually this
World Cup and i think it's been awesome. Up that
New Zealand obviously had their couple of weeks over there
as well, and it's great to see the All Whites.
They they showed some promise, but we're not a football
in nation. Hwei.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
Just finally the MPC creaking up in a couple of weeks.
The Bayo Pline teamers your beloved team. They'll be looking
good to seeing the squad the other day.
Speaker 4 (46:20):
A lot of super rugby experience.
Speaker 11 (46:23):
Yeah, thirteen sleeps away. We kick off the tournament on
a Thursday night overt FMG Stadium in white at toe
the or bell of the cime Es. Yeah, it will
be interesting. We're sort of not to sound arrogant or cocky,
but we've we've we're going to be when the All
Blacks go away into the South African so we're probably
(46:43):
going to lose about four or five players and that
so there's going to be a make the comp very interesting.
This year with sort of just what team doesn't lose
heaps of players on that South African too, because they're
taking what fifty three fifty four players, it's a lot
more than where you do for a thirty man thirty
four man squad. So yeah, I can't wait. As you know,
(47:05):
and as your listeners know, it's it's the best time.
And he it's my absolute favorite competition in the world.
And yeah, I'll be happy with the top eight squeeze
into the top four and who knows what happens, but yeah,
it's going to be going to be bloody awesome. Andy,
It's a.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
Year of the stag Mark Kelly enjoy the weekend. Always
good to catch.
Speaker 14 (47:21):
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Speaker 4 (48:06):
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