June 19, 2026 • 44 mins
Olivia Weatherburn talks to Nathan Abernethy, Jamie Mackay, Phil Duncan, Luke Kane, Tom Slee, and Simon Lee,
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Muster with Eddie Mure.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Thanks to Peter's Genetics, every drip means quite a bit
when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
It's Friday and we're catching up with Nathan Ebanethy from
Regional Ford.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
What's happening around there in Nathan.
Speaker 5 (00:13):
Well, it isn't another Friday rolled around and yeah, probably
not the warmest ones, but it is that time of year.
But certainly look in the showroom, it's nice and warm.
Plenty of new vehicles here and here at the moment
excuse me, and plenty still going out. We've got field
day deals on to the end of June. So if
you're thinking about doing something, now is a really good time.
There's some great interest rates and things that Cody the
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business managers got there too, just to make things really easy.
But plenty of you stock here at the moment. Lots
of commercials, certainly, plenty of SUVs. Example, you know Ford Escapes,
we've got a few of those. We've got plenty of
Ford Everest, We've got Mitsubishi Pageiro's coming in this afternoon.
We've got all sorts. So yeah, pretty much, if there's
something you're looking for, we'd love to see you in
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and show you around and just show you what we
do have, and we can just show you how easy
we can step out of the old and into the
new and have you drive away with a big smile
on your face. The doors of the open at half
past nine again in the morning, so feel free. If
there's anything we can do and you can't get in,
feel free to pick up the phone anytime.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
God Thanks Nathan, have ay right weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
You too of the man dat town.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
I feel a fresh, a.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Good afternoon and welcome back to the mast on a Friday.
I'm Olivia Weatherburn and Jimmy Barnes. Afternoon look at the
Hocknui head caught us here and gore. Not a bad afternoon,
but I think we've got some rain on the horizon.
We're going to be catching up with Phil Duncan from
with a watch later in the hour to see when
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is winter and that's suddenly going to arrive. Also for
those hanging out for the Skifield, will find out what's
happening there as well.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
A full line up here on the muster again for
you this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
We're going to cross to Jamie Mackay first for the
country Crossover. And what's been topical in his neck of
the woods. And as I said, catch up with Phil Duncan.
We're also going to catch up with Luke Kane from
Tapanui on the Tago Balance Farm Environment Awards. He is
the current winner for twenty twenty six and they're heading
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to showcase next week, so how's that preparation going.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
And also next week is.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
The FMG Young Farmer of the Year final up in
New Plymouth, and going to catch up with our Targo
South and representative there, Tom Sleet and see how things
are going for him. And then to finish today, we're
going to head into Glenary Station and just get a
little bit of an insight of what makes Glenary.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Tick and also the importance of work.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Based learning when it comes to running a big team
like the likes of Glennary do. So let's get into
it and let's see what the next five days has
in store.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Paknui's five day forecast with twin farm tear from and
soft text. The proof is in the progeny tear from
dot Co dot inz.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
So Tomorrow, rain and high of thirteen a low of
four with some light westerly winds. Sunday a high of
ten and a low of four, partly cloud eat breezy
west nor west winds. Monday frosts are on the horizon,
are high of ten, low of zero with a mix
of sun and cloud and calm viarable winds. And into
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Tuesday much the same mix of suncloud, calm, viable winds
are high of ten a love of one, and into
Wednesday we'll see a few showers of light nor west
winds high of eight.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
And a low of three. And I have also managed
to It's only taken me all week, but I have
found some salt temperatures for you.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Northern Southland six point five, Riverton nine point five, Tiana
six point five, Winton six and Woodland's seven point eight,
so definitely have lowered in the last week. Those hay
coomps are starting to appear around the place as well.
Riversdale Lions Club have their fiftieth Hate Drive competition happening
on Friday, the third of July at the Andrews Transport Yard,
(04:16):
Judging at twelve thirty, prize giving.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
At three, auction at three.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Fifteen and barbecue refreshments after the auction being held at
the Riversdale Rugby Club and their funds to the youth
of medical needs in the community. You can contact Race
on two seven three nine two nine six eight seven
should you want to any more information there. And of
course we have the way Kaka Hay and Bailish competition
also their fifty first one happening on Friday, the twenty
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sixth of June, and that is happening at the Wykakat
Sports Complex.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Your entries need to be in by one thirty there and.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Then they will be having the judging from two and
an auction at three fifteen following that and there'll be
a sausage sizzle and games for the children. You can
contact Peter Corcoran on two seven four three one eight
one four eight for more information there as well. So
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let's get into the show today, and we were crossing
over next to Jimmy McKay is the Country.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
The Muster with Andy Muir Thanks to Peter's Genetics. Every
trip means quite a bit when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Mawie, Bye home shoes.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Good afternoon, and welcome back to the master on how
can we every Friday? Andy heads over for the Country Crossover.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
And I am joined now by Jamie.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
McKay, the country host. Good afternoon, Jamie.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
How are you.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
I'm fine, Thanks, Olivia. You're doing a wonderful job filling
in for Andy Muir. And if I was him, and
I know he'll be listening to this even though he's
on holiday, I would be very, very careful because there's
a couple of golden rules on radio. Ninety five percent
of all jobs and radio are lost when you're on
annual leave and you're replaced by someone younger, cheaper and smarter.
(06:19):
And you're definitely smarter than Andy Mure. Although he is
being a smart ass playing John Roles. I think he's
having another crack at meat.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Yet this is his choice. John rowls, Cheryl Moana Marie,
So that is all him, not me.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Well fair enough. I think he's referring to my spat
with John in the nineteen nineties or John's management to
be fair yet, good old Andy Muir, but just watch
your back, Andy, Olivia is coming. Have you enjoyed your
week I'm interviewing you.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Yeah, I've had a fun week.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
We haven't managed to blow up the station.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
And haven't had any My aim was if we didn't have.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Any calls from you saying what the hell are you
up to?
Speaker 7 (06:56):
I was going good, well, look I've been doing the
job thirty two years, thirty two and a half, actually
is it thirty No, thirty two, and I still make cockups.
I made one yesterday, So you know, I think you're
doing really well. So good on you.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
I thank you. We're all only human.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Some positive news stories though out there this week, Jamie,
across the whole sector.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Yeah, and I think it all started with the news
that the Orange man in the White House, Donald Trump,
had broke it a peace deal, and that was at
the beginning of the week. I think it was Sunday
or Monday our time, and they've signed something. How it
will hold, I don't know. But sentiment is everything in
the market's Olivia, and we've already seen oil prices come
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down quite a lot. They were I think in the
eighties or seventies, the Brent crude oil price, which is good.
We're getting down two levels we were at almost pre war,
so that's good. And the other one that really interested
me this week was some of the banks have started
to lower some of their longer term fixed strates, so
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the view that they're having on interest rates and inflation
over a longer term have been tempered. You know, I don't.
I think this is a war that Trump should never
have got into. But we can't change history. We can't.
You know, you can't look in the rear vision mirror.
You've got to look forward on this one. But if
they can have some sort of piece and the hall
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straight up, Omos can remain open. There's a few tankers
getting through as we speak, but if they can get
the fuel and from a farming point of view, the fertilizer,
you know, a third of the world's fertilizers coming through
that straight Look, that is going to be good news
for New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Great to be.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Able to go to the fuel station yesterday and see
that it was two dollars. I think it was forty
seven per liter of diesel, which haven't seen that for
a good while.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
And that's good because you can say what you want
about petrol prices Olivia, but it's diesel that drives the economy,
so that is the really key number. But look, things
are looking a lot better than they were a month ago.
And then you look at you know, the farmer confidence
survey that came out this week from Rabobank sheep and
beef farmers Olivia. This will please you. Sheep and beef
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farmers are the most confident of the whole lot.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Well, we as.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
The second largest goods exporter in the country, Jamie. And yeah,
that report that came out the week before with sixty
four million dollars per day directs bend back into our sector.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
How could we not be positive?
Speaker 7 (09:30):
And look, I'm so pleased for the sheep farmers because
for too long they've been the poor relation of the
dairy farmers when it comes to pastoral. And you know,
wall was an absolute disaster. And I've got to admit
I got this one wrong. I thought strong wall was
going to be a goner and people were saying, no, no,
it's a natural fiber, it'll come right. But I just,
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like a lot of farmers, you get very skeptical. I'd
spent so many years reporting on a wall price going nowhere,
and then we had those COVID lows where farmers were
getting like a dollar twenty for you fleece as low
as that, and the cost of sharing far exceeded the
wall check. Well we're getting we're now when I say
we that the market is now getting clean prices of
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over seven dollars a kilogram for strong cross bread wall,
so you know that's good money. It's thirty years high,
so it still nowhere where it needs to be, by
the way, Olivia talking.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
To Matt McCray in the week, he mentioned that he'd
been talking to his mum by the wall prices. Yes,
they are good, seven dollars forty eight to eleven percent rise.
However they were they are where she saw it thirty
years ago. So if we take inflation and everything into account,
it probably needs to be double to be today.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Oh yeah, you know we're a long way off the pace.
Look well, as a young farmer in the eighties, I
got well, we got six dollars a kilogram for lambs wall.
We got five dollars for strong cross bread wall at auction.
So you take the hyperinflation we faced in the late
eighties through rogernomics, and then we've had all these other
disruptive financial events. Yeah, I'd hate to think what wool
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would need to be now. I think it would need
to be to be equal, maybe twenty dollars a kilo
one hundred.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
And sixty eight k for a ball that's showing and
that aspect that there is some positive vibes out there.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
Well, absolutely, I mean that's great. Last year's record was
one hundred and sixty one thousand. This year's record was
one hundred and sixty eight thousand for angus balls, and
the outfit that got the top price last year bought
it off. The outfit who sold it for one hundred
and sixty eight grand this year. Look, beef, I reckon
of all of all the sectors. Maybe I'm really bullish.
(11:39):
No bad pun intended on kiwi fruit. I think it's
a super food. But if you ought to look at
at meat, look, beef just seems to be this one
that has a really good mid term Outlook. The Americans
are struggling. They just can't rebuild their herd, and we're
going to have droughts and super al ninos and all
sorts of things that work in the favor of a
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maritime farmer's maritime climate. Farmers here in New Zealand we're
staring down the barrel of a super al nino as well.
But look, I just think beef's really good and the
other good news story out there. And you'd know a
lot more about this than meal. Avia courtesy of what
you're doing. But the transition was seeing now in the
dairy industry towards you know, dairy dairy beef animals rather
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than Bobby calves.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah, a lot of great projects happening in that space.
Global dairy trade this week as well, a two point
eight percent drop, but speaking to the farmers that we've
been speaking to, that was be expected.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
In fact, that wasn't a bad result.
Speaker 9 (12:38):
In the end.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
The pulse auction that they have every week in between
the GDTs would indicate a worse one. Look, there's a
lot of uncertainty out there. I think the big issue
around the GDT is the fact that worth four and
a half percent up sees year on yere in New Zealand.
The rest of the world similar Like, the prices are great,
the demand's great, but there's just a of a milk blut.
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So consider all things considered, it's not bad money. And
before I sing your praises one more time and tell
Andy Mure his days are numbered, just to shout out,
and I think you've got have you got Tom Slee
coming up on your show shortly?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
We do, Yes, Otago South and representative for the FMG,
Young Farmer of the Year.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
Yeah, well, I've been chatting to the Young Farmer Grand finalist.
Tom was one of them this week. But what an
impressive bunch of young men they are this year. There's
no females in there. And when it comes to Tom Slee,
he's got such a great farming pedigree. Obviously, his father's
a former winner, his uncle's a former winner, and his grandfather, Sidsley,
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is a dead set legend. I'm just reading a book
about sid at the moment. What a farming life and
what a great story he has to tell. So I'm
a bit biased. I've liked all the young guys that
I've chatted to this week, but I'd really love to
get another generation of sleas in and have Tom Slee
is the FMG Young Farmer of the Year, So go
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Tom Slie right, Thank you very.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Much, Jamie, and I'm sure Tom will do his best
for a tager South And that's Jamie McKay there in
the Country Crossover. Heading up next, we're going to head
to Phil Duncan and see what's in the forecast for
the next week.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Sure the Master with Andy Nure. Thanks to Peter's genetics,
every drop means quite a lot when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Welcome back to the Master on Hoki.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
We are now going to head to catch up with
Phil Duncan.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Good afternoon, Phil, from with a watch. How are you.
Speaker 9 (15:08):
I am very good, Thank you very much. How are
you doing?
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Not too bad?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
No, it's been a really Oh we've had some rain
this week, but really winter hasn't arrived yet, and we're
all questioning when's arriving because we want winter and winter.
Speaker 9 (15:24):
Yeah fair enough, and you know a lot of people
around the country are saying the same thing that it
doesn't feel very cold. Even though there have been some
frosts and some cold nights, it still feels a little
more like we're in autumn and not quite actually in winter.
So I think that's going to change a wee a
going into next week. But you know, today's fairly mild,
and you got overnight low of around ten degrees tonight,
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so that's pretty warm for this time of the year.
A bit of rain coming in at the weekend, mostly tomorrow.
Actually not a huge amount, but they could be sort
of twelve millimeters or so, plus or minus a couple
of millimeters there, so that's a little bit more where
where there are another cold front coming through, So the
temperatures drop on Saturday and go down even further on Sunday.
That Sunday Monday Tuesday, you're around ten degrees as a
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maximum and overnight lows dropping down to just one or
zero degree. So we will see some frosts as we
go into the start of next week. But next week
gets colder, and at the moment it's not locked in yet,
but it does look as though around Thursday of next
week we could have a proper wintry blast of weather
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coming up the country. It may not be overly wet
at this stage, it's more about temperatures. But I'm looking
at a maximum on Thursday next week in Gore of
just six degrees, So that's a bit of a change
to where you've been, and that's coming in with some winds,
so it's not a cold, calm day. It's probably a
bit of a windy day as the west to southwesterly
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winds kicking and a big southerly gets stretched up over
New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Oh well, trying to pull out those woolens. Then, as
that going to mean that the skifields are going to
be happy.
Speaker 9 (16:58):
Yeah, I think they'll get some out of this. They'll
probably get some tomorrow, and then they'll get some more
as we go into the middle of next week, in
the later part of next week. But like I say,
the rainfall numbers are actually not very high next week.
So it looks like as we get that cold a
wit burst of wind around let's say Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
At the same time that happens, high pressure could be
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building and that drives things out. But there's certainly a
good chance they'll be able to make snow, and I
think they will still get a dusting of snow. It's
just not a huge amount coming in at this stage,
but that could still change. We're still a long way out,
obviously from next Thursday, but i'd say next Thursday maybe
one of the colder days we've seen so far this year.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Yeah, we've been.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Having those northwest winds that bring that little bit of
a bone chill this last week. Those winds are going
to change a little bit subtly.
Speaker 9 (17:46):
Then yeah, they turn around. So, yeah, you're right, there's
been a lot of northwest is coming through, and in fact,
the northwest flow coming through today is the reason why
you know, temperatures are actually up a bit and as
we go into tomorrow, areas like Canterbury will be in
the twenties, so you know, warm northwester out of New
South Wales. That's always to put a spring in your step.
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But as we go through the weekend, that's when that
colder change comes back in and the winds do change
more to the west and then that kind of fade out.
We've got high pressure rolling in next week. The next
burst of when will be like I said, around Thursday
next week. With that colder change. At this stage it
looks like a southwester kiddingyon, so that'll be just worth
keeping an eye on. It might be trenched up from
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closer to Antarctica, which is why we might be seeing
those temperatures dropping right down again after what has been
a pretty mild start to winter this year.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Yeah, I had to arrive at some stage, but it
sounds like it will get here, which is what you said.
We want winter and winter, So thanks very much for that,
and we'll catch up again next week.
Speaker 9 (18:49):
Sounds good, nice and easy.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
So that's Phil Duncan there out of weather Watch.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Next up, we're heading to Tapanoi to catch up with
Luke Kane, where him and his wife Nicole Oh the
Tago Balance Farm Environment Award winners for twenty twenty six
getting to showcase next week.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Let's see what's been happening for them in preparation.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Awesome the Muster with Andy Muir thanks to Peter's Genetics.
Every drop means quite a lot when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
About a shame afternoon and welcome back to the Muster.
On Hockne on our Jimmy Bounds Friday, Good times and
our next guest knows how to have a good time.
Here's Luke Cain, dairy farmer and also current a Targo
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Balance Farm Environmental Award finalist for the Balance Farm Environment Awards.
Thought it was a good time to have a catch
up with him ahead of the showcase on the second
of July. Good afternoon, Luke, afternoon, busy times on farm.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
We caught up Andy, caught up with you before your field.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Day and after you had taken out the Tiger Balance
Farm Environment Award Championship and you've had you had your
field day since and you've been leading up to the showcase.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
So what's been.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Happening between then and there? How did you find the
field day?
Speaker 10 (20:31):
Field was great? Yeah, really probably blown away at the
number of people who turned up and the questions across
the board on how we run the operation and challenges
that we have. So no, that was that was great.
And then to combine it with Tony and Michelle was
just yeah, next leave really yeah, and we're going.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
To catch up with Tony early next week and see
what's been happening with them as well. On the field day,
so went through your dairy operation and your runoff, and
I believe as they were passing through also looked at
your what was.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Then a non existing calf shed.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Nicole was getting a little bit nervous around that is
the development of that calf shed going.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
Well, it's now more than just stack September in the
odd broken pole. We won't get into that scenario. But no,
Well on the way, hoping that we might have a
roof kind of structure early next week, but full faith
in the builders and he assures me it'll be done
in time.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
So and when does calving officially start for you guys?
Speaker 10 (21:36):
Apparently in about thirsty days we're just shy of according
to Mind the other day, which I think scared all
of the team actually going. Ah really just finished milking cool,
not far away.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Oh so the.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Time you go up to showcase for the Balanced Farm
Environment Awards and come back, it's not going to be
that long to sit around before it starts happen.
Speaker 10 (21:59):
No, No, and still got a trip to Ozzie to
do in there with the bank as well for a
week as well. So that's yeah, we're quickly going to
run out of productive days between now and August.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Oh well, good thing that there's good at the moment
to be able to get some of those jobs done.
You've gone through and had the finals judging for the awards.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
How is that process interesting?
Speaker 10 (22:19):
It's another one of those the two judges and even
our well that does the filming and videos and stuff
we could have filled in a week with those guys
on farm yarning to farmers or industry type people around everything.
There's never enough time to explain what we do or
try and showcase absolutely everything. So no, it's a great
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experience really, So.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Talk us through how that whole process sort of worked
and they just turn up on farm and start chatting
or how did that come about?
Speaker 10 (22:51):
Yeah, it is slightly different where the surround is more
around the people and the I guess ambassador type roles
for farming of New Zealand, so not necessarily all the
intricate detail of how we run the farm, but trying
to keep in our mind that these are two people
who may or may not pretending that they're effectively European tourists,
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don't understand our system, and trying to showcase what New
Zealand farmers do to sell that story.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Really, I think that's something you guys would be pretty
good at. You're the odd tourist that you're pulling out
of the ditch around the Pomahaka.
Speaker 8 (23:30):
No coming.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
And what else is happening on farm at the moment
as you can head into that busy time of year
which is going to be carving in that and as
you said, you've got to get away a few things
that you're going to go on the job list to
get ticked off.
Speaker 10 (23:43):
Yeah, yeah, a few jobs. And that's to get ticked off,
Like there's like you say, there's a calf shed, few
chunker maintenance to do, into blood testing of cows and
stuff next week to you know, all that pre carving
stuff start to tick around really quickly. So checking diets,
checking budgets, interest rates, speed levels, and the crystal bulldozing.
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As to what the season's going to do.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Yeah, and same team on board for next year.
Speaker 10 (24:09):
Yeah, pretty much same team on board. One switch around
but other than that, Yeah, same same crew, which is
great too. Right then they'll get they'll get some decent
breaks over the winter as well. So, like I said,
there's there's plenty of work to do, but we're not
we're not particularly stressed. There's the odd day we are
looking for jobs to do. So that seems to be
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going pretty well.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
And you've got your own little calf due to arrive
again as well. That's kind of a big thing happening
as well.
Speaker 10 (24:37):
Yeah, yeah, I think it has an eviction notice for
next week or something, so yeah, if it doesn't arrive
over the weekend, So that'll add another element of busyness
to the to the life.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
But that's okay.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Well, all the best luke to you both you and Nicole.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Not only on the arrival of the new staff member,
but also in regards to heading up to the showcase
for the National Balance Farm Environmental Awards representing Otago, and
we wish you all the best and bringing that Mantle Home.
Speaker 10 (25:14):
Yeah, I think thanks of it. Yes, it's a great
experience and yeah, sure either way we'll get something out
of it.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I'm sure you Well, that's Luke Cain there out of
West Home Dairies at Tappanui and heading up to the
Balance Farm Environment Awards Finals on the second of July.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
We wish them all the best. Next up on the
Muster we are going to head to the Little Warren Valley.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
We're going to catch up with Tom Slee who on
those same dates will be heading it to the Grand
Final for New Zealand Young Farmers.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
The Muster with any nure thanks to Peter's Genetics, every
trip means quite a bit when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Good afternoon and welcome back to the Master on your
Friday afternoon at Jimmy Bunns afternoon.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
And now we're.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Heading into the Little Burn Valley where one young man
is working hard getting ready for the fifty eighth season
of the New Zealand Young Farmer Grand Final of the
Year which is going to be taking place on the
second to the fourth of July in New Plymouth. And
of course our Tiger Southern representative is Tom Slie.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Good afternoon, Tom.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
How is everything going on top of keeping down a job,
living life in general, probably doing a bit of socializing
in there and getting ready for the Grand Final.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
Yeah, it's been pretty busy. Yeah, the socialism is definitely
taking a bit of the back seat. So yep, cracking
themto a way of work now. He went up to
the field days last week and handed our written innovation
project and so yeah, just trying to take a few
other way things off.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Now.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
See, there's quite a lot of prep goes on, not
only just learning what skills you may want to use
up there and that there's to the imagination what that
could be, you said, the innovativation projects sort of what's
the criteria around that? I know you're not we're not
going to let go of what the topic is or anything,
but what do you have to do around that criteria?
Speaker 8 (27:43):
So they given us a two hundred and a heat
there property at Queenland of the Park which is north
of Wellington to basically come up with a least proposal
for that with some entrepreneurial innovation of thinking. So yeah,
I had to think outside the box a leave it there,
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pretty simple sort of a guy, So Yeah, trying to
think of something that's a bit different to what you'd.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Usually do Southland.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
I believe very innovative, so you will fit into that
category and I'm sure you'll have come up with something fantastic.
So look forward to hearing what it is when it
comes to Grand Final itself. What else have you been
doing for your prep there, Tom?
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Oh, I got out.
Speaker 8 (28:28):
On a wed dig it there yesterday with Graham Leavitt
and and Leavitt and did a bit of a New
Holland training there with the tractors, so that was good.
And yeah, trying to work on my speech at the moment.
And what else are we doing? Yeah, in community footprint videos,
So yeah, trying to sort of put everything together.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Oh cool.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
So if anyone wants some gardening down, give Tom Slayer
ring and he'll come and sort it with the digger.
Speaker 8 (29:00):
And ask you want me and in your garden with
the digger after yesterday. But yeah, I can steer it
in the right direction and make the bucket go out,
So it's a good start.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
What are you most looking forward to when you go
up there? Tom?
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Obviously you got a little bit of I suppose sudden
pressure on your back.
Speaker 8 (29:20):
Do what I can do, really trying to get as
much study done now, and yeah, just enjoy it while
I'm up there, and yeah, see what happens.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
And you've been through a few regional finals and you've
always been aiming for this spot. Do you think even
though you may have taken you, in your mind a
little longer to get where you're here, do you think
actually looking back, going through those regionals and some of
those pressures will have helped you for this next stage. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:50):
I was talking about there with Graham yesterday. There's a
lot of different stuff, probably safety wise and kind of
things that you as a farmer probably don't think about
too much. Make sure you getting in and out of
the trip for the right way and doing those pre
checks and all that kind of stuff. So yeah, probably
a few of the regionals will help with that. In
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the general structure of the competition, I suppose where the
points are.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Because not always being the fastest is it na I.
Speaker 8 (30:21):
Sort of saw that with the last regional, like I
got deep last and in the Egrey Sports on a
time basis, but yeah, just chripping away and making sure
you're trying to do everything properly. There's a lot of
points out there for quality as well, so not that
nic stuff with that quality, but I probably didn't rush throughout.
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I just tried to get as much points as I could.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
At the end of the day, you're a humble Southland
farmer and when you go up there, so you're heading
up there for Grand File taking place from the second
of the fourth of July and New Plumbers. Can you
give the listeners a little bit of a rundown on
what that week's.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Going to look like?
Speaker 8 (31:01):
Yeah, so we fly up there, come in what day,
But then the next day we have sort of our
technical technical day which has a written exam and then
we present and then during that written exam we get
pulled out and we present our innovation project to a
panel sort of like shark kink kind of stuff. And
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then we have our HR module we get pulled out
of the exam for as well, and there's something else there.
And then the next day is the practical days that
has the seven or eight modules and a eggory sports
and a head to head challenge, and then you've also
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got your farm to sort of work through. And then
the next night so we have I think we have
the next sort of day it's chilling, and then we
have a like because that following night, after the practical day,
there's a speech speech we have to do at the
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agri Kids Prizegiving.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
So just like a big week on the farm, it's
going to be not only physically but mentally tiring.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
Yeah, I think so. I was sort of like, yeah,
you're pretty bug it after it just talking to people
and yeah, you know, it's like sort of sort of
like doing at the field. Day's probably to be fair
like you're sort of socializing, but then yeah, trying to
keep everyone happy. It's pretty mentally training that side of it. Yeah,
people imagine the practical day would be pretty physically delanding as.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Well, so yeah, people can drain you at the best
of times. And you've also got the Agrikids and junior
young farmers following out there.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
So for the.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Agricids, a shout out to the Southern Men, which is
slave tweets flextured, Duff and Luke and Webster from Northern
Southern College. We've got the lime Hills Young Farmers of
Anger's Officer Will Riley Hunter leg and then we've also
from lime Hill's Sam Ken's George Collie and Jack Howard,
so they are going up for the agricids and then
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we've got the Junior Young Farmer of Lara Heaes and
Emily Reid from Blue Mountain College and Jack Horrel and
Hunter Norman from Southam.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Boys High School. So but Tony, get that contingent up
there and their families.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Plus I'm sure the Nightcaps club has got a few
following you as well.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
There'll be a good Southland contingent up there.
Speaker 8 (33:28):
Yeah, I'd say it's not gonna be good yep. And
it's nice to catch up with the every kids and
the Tean Egg your Junior Young Farmer competitors. The other day,
the Alpha the Alpha Young Farmer's put on a pretty
cool day sort of training them. So yeah, it's awesome
to catch up with everyone.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Oh no, Well, we wish you all the best, Tom,
and we look forward to hopefully having Andy having a
talk with you once you're back in regards to where
that trophy has ended up and all the best of
bringing it back to Southland. Z.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
That is Tom Slee. There are Tago Southland.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
FMG Young Farmery of the Year finalist for twenty twenty
six and we wish him all the best a reminder
to cast your vote and vote for a tiger Southland
being your favorite region because we know we are number one,
but let's make.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
Sure those votes get in there.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
And part of your voting, you're voting to support the
south and Rural Support Trust. If they win, five thousand
dollars will go towards the Southland Royal Support Trust. One
thousand dollars goes to the senior contestant, being Tom, and
Tom has said that that thousand dollars will go straight
into surfing for farmers.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
He is not going to keep that.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
One thousand dollars will be split among the junior contestants
and one thousand dollars will be split.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Amongst the aggregates.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
And you'll also go in the drawer to win a
five hundred dollars gift card as well if you do
put a vote in so get along to the FMG
facebook page, have a look at the Southland Rural Support
Facebook page and ask that vote and make sure that
OTAGA Southland comes out on top in all ways.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Up next, we are heading to Glenary Station.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
We were going to catch up with General Manager Simon
Lee and see what's been happening on farm up there, and.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
What are some of the challenges that Glen area facing
at present?
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Wow, the Muster with Andy Muir. Thanks to Peter's Genetics.
Every trip means quite a bit when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
Great fire, Welcome back to the Muster.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
On a Friday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
It's at Jimmy Barnes afternoon and land of a thousand
dancers and they're doing many dancers around the silly string
up there in.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Waikaia at the moment.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Oh yeah, heading to Glenary Station. Catch up with general
manager Simon Lee this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
Simon, how's everything going on farm?
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (36:07):
No, pretty good? Actually, no, thanks for having me, No,
real good. Actually we've had a great autumnce so far.
Havening created too much mud. But on farm here we've
got a lot of young stock and on breaks at
the moment fevorit of feeding out and just at a
rolling into sheep scanning and deer scanning the next couple
of weeks.
Speaker 9 (36:25):
So looking forward to it.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
Actually, even I's.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Probably heard of Glenary Station, but just give us sort
of the elevator pitch.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
What makes up Glanary.
Speaker 11 (36:33):
He's Glinary is in the head of the White KaiA
Valley and we run over through in the central Otago
into Roxburgh and Clyde and then boundary NCK and Wise
a big common boundary in northern Southland. We're sixty eight
thousand heat beers and winter wintering ninety thousand stock and
it's a sheep, beef and deer and currently I've got
twenty staff on farm at the moment. Key investment is
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my people and having the right people in the right places.
So I've got four sto managers or block managers underneath me,
sort of flat level management. They report to me. They've
got all the areas, so we've got all systems and
places for those areas and they're very integrated between those managers,
so meetings and communication are the key. So they're all
direct report to me and then they have these shepherds
(37:18):
layered underneath them for those areas. So yeah, it's quite
quite structured, so it's quite easy for me to get
into an area and know what's going on, and.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
You've got your own community up there.
Speaker 11 (37:29):
Yeah, it is, it is actually, yeah. Yeah, there's like
there's nine shepherds living in the sheer accommodation and full
time cock in the quarters. Here, So that's cool.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
With the changes that are happening across the education system
and that at the moment and what we're seeing coming
out of government. How important is work based learning then
for the likes of yourself with having a staff.
Speaker 11 (37:49):
Of winning, Yeah, really important alight. So we want to
make sure that our team is upskilled all the time.
So anything we can grasp and get hold of, we will,
we will do it. So at the moment, currently we've
got a GFF student, so we've done one of those
since since I've been here. So and also we do
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til Ford students are here, so we can have up
to two a week or you know, sometimes three or
four around the busy periods. Also, all our managers and shepherds,
et cetera. They're involved in an external learning program, so
not so that I'm sort of running the program, but
I sort of give them the topics and they do
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all sorts of different things from you know, it might
be farm accounting through the passes to soils and that
this person comes on farm regularly and runs runs it
for a day. So stop managers in the morning, shep
was in the afternoon and in Yeah, every two months.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
What an amazing classroom to be able to learn on
and for those who haven't heard, GFF is growing Future Farmers.
As I said, what a classroom. You've got such a
wide variety of things happening there on farm. Talk us
through some of the things that you really enjoy on
with glenary and what helps get you out of bed
(39:10):
in the morning.
Speaker 11 (39:11):
I like the people to be fear in making sure
that they are in the right place and in the
right roles in the you know, always learning and being
beside them, not have not been above them or below them,
but been beside them. And it's not necessarily working beside
them every day, but just making sure that you know,
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you're interested in what they're doing in the and even
their personal you know, was there rugby or families, Just
making sure that you're interested in what they're doing, and
that sort of helps, I think going forward for staff
retention and staff culture, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
And as you said, you got things behind the silly
string or behind live strand at the moment on crop
what are they sort of key things you mentioned scanning,
but the key things coming up that the teams looking
forward to.
Speaker 11 (39:58):
Yeah, so like we've got scan then coming up you scanning.
So we've got a real you know, we're trying, like
I run Monday meetings for all of my staff and
we have focuses on key goals coming up. And one
of the key.
Speaker 10 (40:12):
Things is is that we're proud.
Speaker 11 (40:14):
Of where we've got to with our stock at the moment,
our sheep, et cetera. So we're looking forward to that
that you scanning, We're looking forward to the to the
d S to the d scanning and you know a
lot of milestones that we're sort of kicking goals. And
so it's trying to keep everyone ged up, you know,
more so in the winter, and that keep the real
get up to these main jobs and you make a
celebration of successes.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
You know, with land that scale, it comes some challenges
as well. What are some of those challenges that you
guys are facing up there?
Speaker 11 (40:44):
So one of the challenges, which it is a challenge,
but I consider it a challenge, you know, like it's
a goal and the team are all over this is
our intensive winder grazing consent. So we went for two
years ago and obtained and adhere to so at the moment,
we're just doing our utmost to be able to display
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environmental outcomes from intensive window grazing and you know, fencing
of all our sensitive waterways and just thinking how we
operate just at probably a bit of a higher level
that that is probably it's like a challenge, but it's
a good challenge to get right really right here.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
And when it comes to biodiversity and those pieces that
we're seeing coming out of government legisation and that, what
are some of the things you guys are having to
either change or adapt to to be able to ensure
that you can still farm the way you want to.
Speaker 11 (41:37):
Yeah, so like we we and biodiversity, so we've got
a lot of yeah, a lot of rivers, a lot
of native bush we have and also the other side
of that is we have eaves, you know, whether it's
wilding's gorse, brome, deer populations, big populations and stuff like that.
But biodiversity wise, fencing off waterways using holster technology, we're
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built through mass of weatlands which we're planning out into
native into native areas as well. So and we do
a lot of water testing. We've got water testing sites
within the Wai Kai Valleys as an overarching catchment group,
but personally we do a lot of water testing as well,
so we're trying to do as much as we can.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
Are you starting to see some trends in those water testing.
Speaker 9 (42:22):
Here we are.
Speaker 11 (42:22):
Yeah, that's bloody interesting actually, and once you can sort
of understand how to read them, which was which was
a challenge. But yeah, no, absolutely no, we can and
we're just going to try and keep doing a lot
better on that because we're governed around us with you
got fishing game. We deal with fishing game, dot lands
and all these you know things because of their location.
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So yeah, it's quite unique. Yeah, do you have a.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
Lot of people passing through the station or trying to
pass through the station too?
Speaker 4 (42:50):
That adds another challenge.
Speaker 11 (42:52):
Yep, we do. So come first of October, you've got
hundreds of fishermen and Wai Kai Valley, so that they're
edge challenges as far as for us for stock stock
movement and the people on property, et cetera. And then
you know, in the summer, Piano Flat is very popular
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camping spot, so we get a lot of visitors and
we open the road up that goes through the Waikai
Bush and over the over the range and into into
Rocksburh Shingle creek, so that is another complexity. So there's
always people around, you know.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
Oh, it sounds like there's plenty up the valley to
keep you guys busy. Thank you Simon giving us a
little bit of insight into what happens there at Glenary Station.
And yeah, I wish you all the best for the
winter ahead.
Speaker 11 (43:39):
No, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
That's a Simon Lee there the general manager at Glenary Station.
Speaker 7 (43:49):
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Speaker 3 (43:59):
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Speaker 4 (44:04):
Apparently it's a case of in one ear out the other. Well,
that is us done for a Friday. Thank you very
much for joining us and for the week.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
I am Olivia Weatherburn and it has been an honor
to keep and Amra's seat warm while he has that
well deserved break.
Speaker 4 (44:22):
For in some and moa. We will be back, same time,
same place on Monday.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
And just to finish the reminder of those Hey competitions
across the regions, we have the Waikaka Hey Day next Friday.
The twenty sixth of June and Riversdale Lions also have
via Hay Drive their fiftieth year happening on Friday the
third of July, and we will hear more about those
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next week as well.
Speaker 4 (44:49):
See you Monday, have a great weekend.
The Muster with Eddie Mure.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Thanks to Peter's Genetics, every drip means quite a bit
when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
It's Friday and we're catching up with Nathan Ebanethy from
Regional Ford.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
What's happening around there in Nathan.
Speaker 5 (00:13):
Well, it isn't another Friday rolled around and yeah, probably
not the warmest ones, but it is that time of year.
But certainly look in the showroom, it's nice and warm.
Plenty of new vehicles here and here at the moment
excuse me, and plenty still going out. We've got field
day deals on to the end of June. So if
you're thinking about doing something, now is a really good time.
There's some great interest rates and things that Cody the
(00:36):
business managers got there too, just to make things really easy.
But plenty of you stock here at the moment. Lots
of commercials, certainly, plenty of SUVs. Example, you know Ford Escapes,
we've got a few of those. We've got plenty of
Ford Everest, We've got Mitsubishi Pageiro's coming in this afternoon.
We've got all sorts. So yeah, pretty much, if there's
something you're looking for, we'd love to see you in
(00:56):
and show you around and just show you what we
do have, and we can just show you how easy
we can step out of the old and into the
new and have you drive away with a big smile
on your face. The doors of the open at half
past nine again in the morning, so feel free. If
there's anything we can do and you can't get in,
feel free to pick up the phone anytime.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
God Thanks Nathan, have ay right weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
You too of the man dat town.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
I feel a fresh, a.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Good afternoon and welcome back to the mast on a Friday.
I'm Olivia Weatherburn and Jimmy Barnes. Afternoon look at the
Hocknui head caught us here and gore. Not a bad afternoon,
but I think we've got some rain on the horizon.
We're going to be catching up with Phil Duncan from
with a watch later in the hour to see when
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is winter and that's suddenly going to arrive. Also for
those hanging out for the Skifield, will find out what's
happening there as well.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
A full line up here on the muster again for
you this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
We're going to cross to Jamie Mackay first for the
country Crossover. And what's been topical in his neck of
the woods. And as I said, catch up with Phil Duncan.
We're also going to catch up with Luke Kane from
Tapanui on the Tago Balance Farm Environment Awards. He is
the current winner for twenty twenty six and they're heading
(02:32):
to showcase next week, so how's that preparation going.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
And also next week is.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
The FMG Young Farmer of the Year final up in
New Plymouth, and going to catch up with our Targo
South and representative there, Tom Sleet and see how things
are going for him. And then to finish today, we're
going to head into Glenary Station and just get a
little bit of an insight of what makes Glenary.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Tick and also the importance of work.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Based learning when it comes to running a big team
like the likes of Glennary do. So let's get into
it and let's see what the next five days has
in store.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Paknui's five day forecast with twin farm tear from and
soft text. The proof is in the progeny tear from
dot Co dot inz.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
So Tomorrow, rain and high of thirteen a low of
four with some light westerly winds. Sunday a high of
ten and a low of four, partly cloud eat breezy
west nor west winds. Monday frosts are on the horizon,
are high of ten, low of zero with a mix
of sun and cloud and calm viarable winds. And into
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Tuesday much the same mix of suncloud, calm, viable winds
are high of ten a love of one, and into
Wednesday we'll see a few showers of light nor west
winds high of eight.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
And a low of three. And I have also managed
to It's only taken me all week, but I have
found some salt temperatures for you.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Northern Southland six point five, Riverton nine point five, Tiana
six point five, Winton six and Woodland's seven point eight,
so definitely have lowered in the last week. Those hay
coomps are starting to appear around the place as well.
Riversdale Lions Club have their fiftieth Hate Drive competition happening
on Friday, the third of July at the Andrews Transport Yard,
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Judging at twelve thirty, prize giving.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
At three, auction at three.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Fifteen and barbecue refreshments after the auction being held at
the Riversdale Rugby Club and their funds to the youth
of medical needs in the community. You can contact Race
on two seven three nine two nine six eight seven
should you want to any more information there. And of
course we have the way Kaka Hay and Bailish competition
also their fifty first one happening on Friday, the twenty
(04:43):
sixth of June, and that is happening at the Wykakat
Sports Complex.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Your entries need to be in by one thirty there and.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Then they will be having the judging from two and
an auction at three fifteen following that and there'll be
a sausage sizzle and games for the children. You can
contact Peter Corcoran on two seven four three one eight
one four eight for more information there as well. So
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let's get into the show today, and we were crossing
over next to Jimmy McKay is the Country.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
The Muster with Andy Muir Thanks to Peter's Genetics. Every
trip means quite a bit when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Mawie, Bye home shoes.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Good afternoon, and welcome back to the master on how
can we every Friday? Andy heads over for the Country Crossover.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
And I am joined now by Jamie.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
McKay, the country host. Good afternoon, Jamie.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
How are you.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
I'm fine, Thanks, Olivia. You're doing a wonderful job filling
in for Andy Muir. And if I was him, and
I know he'll be listening to this even though he's
on holiday, I would be very, very careful because there's
a couple of golden rules on radio. Ninety five percent
of all jobs and radio are lost when you're on
annual leave and you're replaced by someone younger, cheaper and smarter.
(06:19):
And you're definitely smarter than Andy Mure. Although he is
being a smart ass playing John Roles. I think he's
having another crack at meat.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Yet this is his choice. John rowls, Cheryl Moana Marie,
So that is all him, not me.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Well fair enough. I think he's referring to my spat
with John in the nineteen nineties or John's management to
be fair yet, good old Andy Muir, but just watch
your back, Andy, Olivia is coming. Have you enjoyed your
week I'm interviewing you.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Yeah, I've had a fun week.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
We haven't managed to blow up the station.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
And haven't had any My aim was if we didn't have.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Any calls from you saying what the hell are you
up to?
Speaker 7 (06:56):
I was going good, well, look I've been doing the
job thirty two years, thirty two and a half, actually
is it thirty No, thirty two, and I still make cockups.
I made one yesterday, So you know, I think you're
doing really well. So good on you.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
I thank you. We're all only human.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Some positive news stories though out there this week, Jamie,
across the whole sector.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Yeah, and I think it all started with the news
that the Orange man in the White House, Donald Trump,
had broke it a peace deal, and that was at
the beginning of the week. I think it was Sunday
or Monday our time, and they've signed something. How it
will hold, I don't know. But sentiment is everything in
the market's Olivia, and we've already seen oil prices come
(07:41):
down quite a lot. They were I think in the
eighties or seventies, the Brent crude oil price, which is good.
We're getting down two levels we were at almost pre war,
so that's good. And the other one that really interested
me this week was some of the banks have started
to lower some of their longer term fixed strates, so
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the view that they're having on interest rates and inflation
over a longer term have been tempered. You know, I don't.
I think this is a war that Trump should never
have got into. But we can't change history. We can't.
You know, you can't look in the rear vision mirror.
You've got to look forward on this one. But if
they can have some sort of piece and the hall
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straight up, Omos can remain open. There's a few tankers
getting through as we speak, but if they can get
the fuel and from a farming point of view, the fertilizer,
you know, a third of the world's fertilizers coming through
that straight Look, that is going to be good news
for New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Great to be.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Able to go to the fuel station yesterday and see
that it was two dollars. I think it was forty
seven per liter of diesel, which haven't seen that for
a good while.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
And that's good because you can say what you want
about petrol prices Olivia, but it's diesel that drives the economy,
so that is the really key number. But look, things
are looking a lot better than they were a month ago.
And then you look at you know, the farmer confidence
survey that came out this week from Rabobank sheep and
beef farmers Olivia. This will please you. Sheep and beef
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farmers are the most confident of the whole lot.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Well, we as.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
The second largest goods exporter in the country, Jamie. And yeah,
that report that came out the week before with sixty
four million dollars per day directs bend back into our sector.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
How could we not be positive?
Speaker 7 (09:30):
And look, I'm so pleased for the sheep farmers because
for too long they've been the poor relation of the
dairy farmers when it comes to pastoral. And you know,
wall was an absolute disaster. And I've got to admit
I got this one wrong. I thought strong wall was
going to be a goner and people were saying, no, no,
it's a natural fiber, it'll come right. But I just,
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like a lot of farmers, you get very skeptical. I'd
spent so many years reporting on a wall price going nowhere,
and then we had those COVID lows where farmers were
getting like a dollar twenty for you fleece as low
as that, and the cost of sharing far exceeded the
wall check. Well we're getting we're now when I say
we that the market is now getting clean prices of
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over seven dollars a kilogram for strong cross bread wall,
so you know that's good money. It's thirty years high,
so it still nowhere where it needs to be, by
the way, Olivia talking.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
To Matt McCray in the week, he mentioned that he'd
been talking to his mum by the wall prices. Yes,
they are good, seven dollars forty eight to eleven percent rise.
However they were they are where she saw it thirty
years ago. So if we take inflation and everything into account,
it probably needs to be double to be today.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Oh yeah, you know we're a long way off the pace.
Look well, as a young farmer in the eighties, I
got well, we got six dollars a kilogram for lambs wall.
We got five dollars for strong cross bread wall at auction.
So you take the hyperinflation we faced in the late
eighties through rogernomics, and then we've had all these other
disruptive financial events. Yeah, I'd hate to think what wool
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would need to be now. I think it would need
to be to be equal, maybe twenty dollars a kilo
one hundred.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
And sixty eight k for a ball that's showing and
that aspect that there is some positive vibes out there.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
Well, absolutely, I mean that's great. Last year's record was
one hundred and sixty one thousand. This year's record was
one hundred and sixty eight thousand for angus balls, and
the outfit that got the top price last year bought
it off. The outfit who sold it for one hundred
and sixty eight grand this year. Look, beef, I reckon
of all of all the sectors. Maybe I'm really bullish.
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No bad pun intended on kiwi fruit. I think it's
a super food. But if you ought to look at
at meat, look, beef just seems to be this one
that has a really good mid term Outlook. The Americans
are struggling. They just can't rebuild their herd, and we're
going to have droughts and super al ninos and all
sorts of things that work in the favor of a
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maritime farmer's maritime climate. Farmers here in New Zealand we're
staring down the barrel of a super al nino as well.
But look, I just think beef's really good and the
other good news story out there. And you'd know a
lot more about this than meal. Avia courtesy of what
you're doing. But the transition was seeing now in the
dairy industry towards you know, dairy dairy beef animals rather
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than Bobby calves.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah, a lot of great projects happening in that space.
Global dairy trade this week as well, a two point
eight percent drop, but speaking to the farmers that we've
been speaking to, that was be expected.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
In fact, that wasn't a bad result.
Speaker 9 (12:38):
In the end.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
The pulse auction that they have every week in between
the GDTs would indicate a worse one. Look, there's a
lot of uncertainty out there. I think the big issue
around the GDT is the fact that worth four and
a half percent up sees year on yere in New Zealand.
The rest of the world similar Like, the prices are great,
the demand's great, but there's just a of a milk blut.
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So consider all things considered, it's not bad money. And
before I sing your praises one more time and tell
Andy Mure his days are numbered, just to shout out,
and I think you've got have you got Tom Slee
coming up on your show shortly?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
We do, Yes, Otago South and representative for the FMG,
Young Farmer of the Year.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
Yeah, well, I've been chatting to the Young Farmer Grand finalist.
Tom was one of them this week. But what an
impressive bunch of young men they are this year. There's
no females in there. And when it comes to Tom Slee,
he's got such a great farming pedigree. Obviously, his father's
a former winner, his uncle's a former winner, and his grandfather, Sidsley,
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is a dead set legend. I'm just reading a book
about sid at the moment. What a farming life and
what a great story he has to tell. So I'm
a bit biased. I've liked all the young guys that
I've chatted to this week, but I'd really love to
get another generation of sleas in and have Tom Slee
is the FMG Young Farmer of the Year, So go
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Tom Slie right, Thank you very.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Much, Jamie, and I'm sure Tom will do his best
for a tager South And that's Jamie McKay there in
the Country Crossover. Heading up next, we're going to head
to Phil Duncan and see what's in the forecast for
the next week.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Sure the Master with Andy Nure. Thanks to Peter's genetics,
every drop means quite a lot when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Welcome back to the Master on Hoki.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
We are now going to head to catch up with
Phil Duncan.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Good afternoon, Phil, from with a watch. How are you.
Speaker 9 (15:08):
I am very good, Thank you very much. How are
you doing?
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Not too bad?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
No, it's been a really Oh we've had some rain
this week, but really winter hasn't arrived yet, and we're
all questioning when's arriving because we want winter and winter.
Speaker 9 (15:24):
Yeah fair enough, and you know a lot of people
around the country are saying the same thing that it
doesn't feel very cold. Even though there have been some
frosts and some cold nights, it still feels a little
more like we're in autumn and not quite actually in winter.
So I think that's going to change a wee a
going into next week. But you know, today's fairly mild,
and you got overnight low of around ten degrees tonight,
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so that's pretty warm for this time of the year.
A bit of rain coming in at the weekend, mostly tomorrow.
Actually not a huge amount, but they could be sort
of twelve millimeters or so, plus or minus a couple
of millimeters there, so that's a little bit more where
where there are another cold front coming through, So the
temperatures drop on Saturday and go down even further on Sunday.
That Sunday Monday Tuesday, you're around ten degrees as a
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maximum and overnight lows dropping down to just one or
zero degree. So we will see some frosts as we
go into the start of next week. But next week
gets colder, and at the moment it's not locked in yet,
but it does look as though around Thursday of next
week we could have a proper wintry blast of weather
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coming up the country. It may not be overly wet
at this stage, it's more about temperatures. But I'm looking
at a maximum on Thursday next week in Gore of
just six degrees, So that's a bit of a change
to where you've been, and that's coming in with some winds,
so it's not a cold, calm day. It's probably a
bit of a windy day as the west to southwesterly
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winds kicking and a big southerly gets stretched up over
New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Oh well, trying to pull out those woolens. Then, as
that going to mean that the skifields are going to
be happy.
Speaker 9 (16:58):
Yeah, I think they'll get some out of this. They'll
probably get some tomorrow, and then they'll get some more
as we go into the middle of next week, in
the later part of next week. But like I say,
the rainfall numbers are actually not very high next week.
So it looks like as we get that cold a
wit burst of wind around let's say Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
At the same time that happens, high pressure could be
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building and that drives things out. But there's certainly a
good chance they'll be able to make snow, and I
think they will still get a dusting of snow. It's
just not a huge amount coming in at this stage,
but that could still change. We're still a long way out,
obviously from next Thursday, but i'd say next Thursday maybe
one of the colder days we've seen so far this year.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Yeah, we've been.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Having those northwest winds that bring that little bit of
a bone chill this last week. Those winds are going
to change a little bit subtly.
Speaker 9 (17:46):
Then yeah, they turn around. So, yeah, you're right, there's
been a lot of northwest is coming through, and in fact,
the northwest flow coming through today is the reason why
you know, temperatures are actually up a bit and as
we go into tomorrow, areas like Canterbury will be in
the twenties, so you know, warm northwester out of New
South Wales. That's always to put a spring in your step.
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But as we go through the weekend, that's when that
colder change comes back in and the winds do change
more to the west and then that kind of fade out.
We've got high pressure rolling in next week. The next
burst of when will be like I said, around Thursday
next week. With that colder change. At this stage it
looks like a southwester kiddingyon, so that'll be just worth
keeping an eye on. It might be trenched up from
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closer to Antarctica, which is why we might be seeing
those temperatures dropping right down again after what has been
a pretty mild start to winter this year.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Yeah, I had to arrive at some stage, but it
sounds like it will get here, which is what you said.
We want winter and winter, So thanks very much for that,
and we'll catch up again next week.
Speaker 9 (18:49):
Sounds good, nice and easy.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
So that's Phil Duncan there out of weather Watch.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Next up, we're heading to Tapanoi to catch up with
Luke Kane, where him and his wife Nicole Oh the
Tago Balance Farm Environment Award winners for twenty twenty six
getting to showcase next week.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Let's see what's been happening for them in preparation.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Awesome the Muster with Andy Muir thanks to Peter's Genetics.
Every drop means quite a lot when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
About a shame afternoon and welcome back to the Muster.
On Hockne on our Jimmy Bounds Friday, Good times and
our next guest knows how to have a good time.
Here's Luke Cain, dairy farmer and also current a Targo
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Balance Farm Environmental Award finalist for the Balance Farm Environment Awards.
Thought it was a good time to have a catch
up with him ahead of the showcase on the second
of July. Good afternoon, Luke, afternoon, busy times on farm.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
We caught up Andy, caught up with you before your field.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Day and after you had taken out the Tiger Balance
Farm Environment Award Championship and you've had you had your
field day since and you've been leading up to the showcase.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
So what's been.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Happening between then and there? How did you find the
field day?
Speaker 10 (20:31):
Field was great? Yeah, really probably blown away at the
number of people who turned up and the questions across
the board on how we run the operation and challenges
that we have. So no, that was that was great.
And then to combine it with Tony and Michelle was
just yeah, next leave really yeah, and we're going.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
To catch up with Tony early next week and see
what's been happening with them as well. On the field day,
so went through your dairy operation and your runoff, and
I believe as they were passing through also looked at
your what was.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Then a non existing calf shed.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Nicole was getting a little bit nervous around that is
the development of that calf shed going.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
Well, it's now more than just stack September in the
odd broken pole. We won't get into that scenario. But no,
Well on the way, hoping that we might have a
roof kind of structure early next week, but full faith
in the builders and he assures me it'll be done
in time.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
So and when does calving officially start for you guys?
Speaker 10 (21:36):
Apparently in about thirsty days we're just shy of according
to Mind the other day, which I think scared all
of the team actually going. Ah really just finished milking cool,
not far away.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Oh so the.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Time you go up to showcase for the Balanced Farm
Environment Awards and come back, it's not going to be
that long to sit around before it starts happen.
Speaker 10 (21:59):
No, No, and still got a trip to Ozzie to
do in there with the bank as well for a
week as well. So that's yeah, we're quickly going to
run out of productive days between now and August.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Oh well, good thing that there's good at the moment
to be able to get some of those jobs done.
You've gone through and had the finals judging for the awards.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
How is that process interesting?
Speaker 10 (22:19):
It's another one of those the two judges and even
our well that does the filming and videos and stuff
we could have filled in a week with those guys
on farm yarning to farmers or industry type people around everything.
There's never enough time to explain what we do or
try and showcase absolutely everything. So no, it's a great
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experience really, So.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Talk us through how that whole process sort of worked
and they just turn up on farm and start chatting
or how did that come about?
Speaker 10 (22:51):
Yeah, it is slightly different where the surround is more
around the people and the I guess ambassador type roles
for farming of New Zealand, so not necessarily all the
intricate detail of how we run the farm, but trying
to keep in our mind that these are two people
who may or may not pretending that they're effectively European tourists,
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don't understand our system, and trying to showcase what New
Zealand farmers do to sell that story.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Really, I think that's something you guys would be pretty
good at. You're the odd tourist that you're pulling out
of the ditch around the Pomahaka.
Speaker 8 (23:30):
No coming.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
And what else is happening on farm at the moment
as you can head into that busy time of year
which is going to be carving in that and as
you said, you've got to get away a few things
that you're going to go on the job list to
get ticked off.
Speaker 10 (23:43):
Yeah, yeah, a few jobs. And that's to get ticked off,
Like there's like you say, there's a calf shed, few
chunker maintenance to do, into blood testing of cows and
stuff next week to you know, all that pre carving
stuff start to tick around really quickly. So checking diets,
checking budgets, interest rates, speed levels, and the crystal bulldozing.
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As to what the season's going to do.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Yeah, and same team on board for next year.
Speaker 10 (24:09):
Yeah, pretty much same team on board. One switch around
but other than that, Yeah, same same crew, which is
great too. Right then they'll get they'll get some decent
breaks over the winter as well. So, like I said,
there's there's plenty of work to do, but we're not
we're not particularly stressed. There's the odd day we are
looking for jobs to do. So that seems to be
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going pretty well.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
And you've got your own little calf due to arrive
again as well. That's kind of a big thing happening
as well.
Speaker 10 (24:37):
Yeah, yeah, I think it has an eviction notice for
next week or something, so yeah, if it doesn't arrive
over the weekend, So that'll add another element of busyness
to the to the life.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
But that's okay.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Well, all the best luke to you both you and Nicole.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Not only on the arrival of the new staff member,
but also in regards to heading up to the showcase
for the National Balance Farm Environmental Awards representing Otago, and
we wish you all the best and bringing that Mantle Home.
Speaker 10 (25:14):
Yeah, I think thanks of it. Yes, it's a great
experience and yeah, sure either way we'll get something out
of it.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I'm sure you Well, that's Luke Cain there out of
West Home Dairies at Tappanui and heading up to the
Balance Farm Environment Awards Finals on the second of July.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
We wish them all the best. Next up on the
Muster we are going to head to the Little Warren Valley.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
We're going to catch up with Tom Slee who on
those same dates will be heading it to the Grand
Final for New Zealand Young Farmers.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
The Muster with any nure thanks to Peter's Genetics, every
trip means quite a bit when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Good afternoon and welcome back to the Master on your
Friday afternoon at Jimmy Bunns afternoon.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
And now we're.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Heading into the Little Burn Valley where one young man
is working hard getting ready for the fifty eighth season
of the New Zealand Young Farmer Grand Final of the
Year which is going to be taking place on the
second to the fourth of July in New Plymouth. And
of course our Tiger Southern representative is Tom Slie.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Good afternoon, Tom.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
How is everything going on top of keeping down a job,
living life in general, probably doing a bit of socializing
in there and getting ready for the Grand Final.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
Yeah, it's been pretty busy. Yeah, the socialism is definitely
taking a bit of the back seat. So yep, cracking
themto a way of work now. He went up to
the field days last week and handed our written innovation
project and so yeah, just trying to take a few
other way things off.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Now.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
See, there's quite a lot of prep goes on, not
only just learning what skills you may want to use
up there and that there's to the imagination what that
could be, you said, the innovativation projects sort of what's
the criteria around that? I know you're not we're not
going to let go of what the topic is or anything,
but what do you have to do around that criteria?
Speaker 8 (27:43):
So they given us a two hundred and a heat
there property at Queenland of the Park which is north
of Wellington to basically come up with a least proposal
for that with some entrepreneurial innovation of thinking. So yeah,
I had to think outside the box a leave it there,
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pretty simple sort of a guy, So Yeah, trying to
think of something that's a bit different to what you'd.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Usually do Southland.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
I believe very innovative, so you will fit into that
category and I'm sure you'll have come up with something fantastic.
So look forward to hearing what it is when it
comes to Grand Final itself. What else have you been
doing for your prep there, Tom?
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Oh, I got out.
Speaker 8 (28:28):
On a wed dig it there yesterday with Graham Leavitt
and and Leavitt and did a bit of a New
Holland training there with the tractors, so that was good.
And yeah, trying to work on my speech at the moment.
And what else are we doing? Yeah, in community footprint videos,
So yeah, trying to sort of put everything together.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Oh cool.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
So if anyone wants some gardening down, give Tom Slayer
ring and he'll come and sort it with the digger.
Speaker 8 (29:00):
And ask you want me and in your garden with
the digger after yesterday. But yeah, I can steer it
in the right direction and make the bucket go out,
So it's a good start.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
What are you most looking forward to when you go
up there? Tom?
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Obviously you got a little bit of I suppose sudden
pressure on your back.
Speaker 8 (29:20):
Do what I can do, really trying to get as
much study done now, and yeah, just enjoy it while
I'm up there, and yeah, see what happens.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
And you've been through a few regional finals and you've
always been aiming for this spot. Do you think even
though you may have taken you, in your mind a
little longer to get where you're here, do you think
actually looking back, going through those regionals and some of
those pressures will have helped you for this next stage. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:50):
I was talking about there with Graham yesterday. There's a
lot of different stuff, probably safety wise and kind of
things that you as a farmer probably don't think about
too much. Make sure you getting in and out of
the trip for the right way and doing those pre
checks and all that kind of stuff. So yeah, probably
a few of the regionals will help with that. In
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the general structure of the competition, I suppose where the
points are.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Because not always being the fastest is it na I.
Speaker 8 (30:21):
Sort of saw that with the last regional, like I
got deep last and in the Egrey Sports on a
time basis, but yeah, just chripping away and making sure
you're trying to do everything properly. There's a lot of
points out there for quality as well, so not that
nic stuff with that quality, but I probably didn't rush throughout.
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I just tried to get as much points as I could.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
At the end of the day, you're a humble Southland
farmer and when you go up there, so you're heading
up there for Grand File taking place from the second
of the fourth of July and New Plumbers. Can you
give the listeners a little bit of a rundown on
what that week's.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Going to look like?
Speaker 8 (31:01):
Yeah, so we fly up there, come in what day,
But then the next day we have sort of our
technical technical day which has a written exam and then
we present and then during that written exam we get
pulled out and we present our innovation project to a
panel sort of like shark kink kind of stuff. And
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then we have our HR module we get pulled out
of the exam for as well, and there's something else there.
And then the next day is the practical days that
has the seven or eight modules and a eggory sports
and a head to head challenge, and then you've also
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got your farm to sort of work through. And then
the next night so we have I think we have
the next sort of day it's chilling, and then we
have a like because that following night, after the practical day,
there's a speech speech we have to do at the
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agri Kids Prizegiving.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
So just like a big week on the farm, it's
going to be not only physically but mentally tiring.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
Yeah, I think so. I was sort of like, yeah,
you're pretty bug it after it just talking to people
and yeah, you know, it's like sort of sort of
like doing at the field. Day's probably to be fair
like you're sort of socializing, but then yeah, trying to
keep everyone happy. It's pretty mentally training that side of it. Yeah,
people imagine the practical day would be pretty physically delanding as.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Well, so yeah, people can drain you at the best
of times. And you've also got the Agrikids and junior
young farmers following out there.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
So for the.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Agricids, a shout out to the Southern Men, which is
slave tweets flextured, Duff and Luke and Webster from Northern
Southern College. We've got the lime Hills Young Farmers of
Anger's Officer Will Riley Hunter leg and then we've also
from lime Hill's Sam Ken's George Collie and Jack Howard,
so they are going up for the agricids and then
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we've got the Junior Young Farmer of Lara Heaes and
Emily Reid from Blue Mountain College and Jack Horrel and
Hunter Norman from Southam.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Boys High School. So but Tony, get that contingent up
there and their families.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Plus I'm sure the Nightcaps club has got a few
following you as well.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
There'll be a good Southland contingent up there.
Speaker 8 (33:28):
Yeah, I'd say it's not gonna be good yep. And
it's nice to catch up with the every kids and
the Tean Egg your Junior Young Farmer competitors. The other day,
the Alpha the Alpha Young Farmer's put on a pretty
cool day sort of training them. So yeah, it's awesome
to catch up with everyone.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Oh no, Well, we wish you all the best, Tom,
and we look forward to hopefully having Andy having a
talk with you once you're back in regards to where
that trophy has ended up and all the best of
bringing it back to Southland. Z.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
That is Tom Slee. There are Tago Southland.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
FMG Young Farmery of the Year finalist for twenty twenty
six and we wish him all the best a reminder
to cast your vote and vote for a tiger Southland
being your favorite region because we know we are number one,
but let's make.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
Sure those votes get in there.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
And part of your voting, you're voting to support the
south and Rural Support Trust. If they win, five thousand
dollars will go towards the Southland Royal Support Trust. One
thousand dollars goes to the senior contestant, being Tom, and
Tom has said that that thousand dollars will go straight
into surfing for farmers.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
He is not going to keep that.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
One thousand dollars will be split among the junior contestants
and one thousand dollars will be split.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Amongst the aggregates.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
And you'll also go in the drawer to win a
five hundred dollars gift card as well if you do
put a vote in so get along to the FMG
facebook page, have a look at the Southland Rural Support
Facebook page and ask that vote and make sure that
OTAGA Southland comes out on top in all ways.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Up next, we are heading to Glenary Station.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
We were going to catch up with General Manager Simon
Lee and see what's been happening on farm up there, and.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
What are some of the challenges that Glen area facing
at present?
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Wow, the Muster with Andy Muir. Thanks to Peter's Genetics.
Every trip means quite a bit when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
Great fire, Welcome back to the Muster.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
On a Friday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
It's at Jimmy Barnes afternoon and land of a thousand
dancers and they're doing many dancers around the silly string
up there in.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Waikaia at the moment.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Oh yeah, heading to Glenary Station. Catch up with general
manager Simon Lee this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
Simon, how's everything going on farm?
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (36:07):
No, pretty good? Actually, no, thanks for having me, No,
real good. Actually we've had a great autumnce so far.
Havening created too much mud. But on farm here we've
got a lot of young stock and on breaks at
the moment fevorit of feeding out and just at a
rolling into sheep scanning and deer scanning the next couple
of weeks.
Speaker 9 (36:25):
So looking forward to it.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
Actually, even I's.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Probably heard of Glenary Station, but just give us sort
of the elevator pitch.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
What makes up Glanary.
Speaker 11 (36:33):
He's Glinary is in the head of the White KaiA
Valley and we run over through in the central Otago
into Roxburgh and Clyde and then boundary NCK and Wise
a big common boundary in northern Southland. We're sixty eight
thousand heat beers and winter wintering ninety thousand stock and
it's a sheep, beef and deer and currently I've got
twenty staff on farm at the moment. Key investment is
(36:56):
my people and having the right people in the right places.
So I've got four sto managers or block managers underneath me,
sort of flat level management. They report to me. They've
got all the areas, so we've got all systems and
places for those areas and they're very integrated between those managers,
so meetings and communication are the key. So they're all
direct report to me and then they have these shepherds
(37:18):
layered underneath them for those areas. So yeah, it's quite
quite structured, so it's quite easy for me to get
into an area and know what's going on, and.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
You've got your own community up there.
Speaker 11 (37:29):
Yeah, it is, it is actually, yeah. Yeah, there's like
there's nine shepherds living in the sheer accommodation and full
time cock in the quarters. Here, So that's cool.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
With the changes that are happening across the education system
and that at the moment and what we're seeing coming
out of government. How important is work based learning then
for the likes of yourself with having a staff.
Speaker 11 (37:49):
Of winning, Yeah, really important alight. So we want to
make sure that our team is upskilled all the time.
So anything we can grasp and get hold of, we will,
we will do it. So at the moment, currently we've
got a GFF student, so we've done one of those
since since I've been here. So and also we do
(38:11):
til Ford students are here, so we can have up
to two a week or you know, sometimes three or
four around the busy periods. Also, all our managers and shepherds,
et cetera. They're involved in an external learning program, so
not so that I'm sort of running the program, but
I sort of give them the topics and they do
(38:33):
all sorts of different things from you know, it might
be farm accounting through the passes to soils and that
this person comes on farm regularly and runs runs it
for a day. So stop managers in the morning, shep
was in the afternoon and in Yeah, every two months.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
What an amazing classroom to be able to learn on
and for those who haven't heard, GFF is growing Future Farmers.
As I said, what a classroom. You've got such a
wide variety of things happening there on farm. Talk us
through some of the things that you really enjoy on
with glenary and what helps get you out of bed
(39:10):
in the morning.
Speaker 11 (39:11):
I like the people to be fear in making sure
that they are in the right place and in the
right roles in the you know, always learning and being
beside them, not have not been above them or below them,
but been beside them. And it's not necessarily working beside
them every day, but just making sure that you know,
(39:32):
you're interested in what they're doing in the and even
their personal you know, was there rugby or families, Just
making sure that you're interested in what they're doing, and
that sort of helps, I think going forward for staff
retention and staff culture, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
And as you said, you got things behind the silly
string or behind live strand at the moment on crop
what are they sort of key things you mentioned scanning,
but the key things coming up that the teams looking
forward to.
Speaker 11 (39:58):
Yeah, so like we've got scan then coming up you scanning.
So we've got a real you know, we're trying, like
I run Monday meetings for all of my staff and
we have focuses on key goals coming up. And one
of the key.
Speaker 10 (40:12):
Things is is that we're proud.
Speaker 11 (40:14):
Of where we've got to with our stock at the moment,
our sheep, et cetera. So we're looking forward to that
that you scanning, We're looking forward to the to the
d S to the d scanning and you know a
lot of milestones that we're sort of kicking goals. And
so it's trying to keep everyone ged up, you know,
more so in the winter, and that keep the real
get up to these main jobs and you make a
celebration of successes.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
You know, with land that scale, it comes some challenges
as well. What are some of those challenges that you
guys are facing up there?
Speaker 11 (40:44):
So one of the challenges, which it is a challenge,
but I consider it a challenge, you know, like it's
a goal and the team are all over this is
our intensive winder grazing consent. So we went for two
years ago and obtained and adhere to so at the moment,
we're just doing our utmost to be able to display
(41:06):
environmental outcomes from intensive window grazing and you know, fencing
of all our sensitive waterways and just thinking how we
operate just at probably a bit of a higher level
that that is probably it's like a challenge, but it's
a good challenge to get right really right here.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
And when it comes to biodiversity and those pieces that
we're seeing coming out of government legisation and that, what
are some of the things you guys are having to
either change or adapt to to be able to ensure
that you can still farm the way you want to.
Speaker 11 (41:37):
Yeah, so like we we and biodiversity, so we've got
a lot of yeah, a lot of rivers, a lot
of native bush we have and also the other side
of that is we have eaves, you know, whether it's
wilding's gorse, brome, deer populations, big populations and stuff like that.
But biodiversity wise, fencing off waterways using holster technology, we're
(41:59):
built through mass of weatlands which we're planning out into
native into native areas as well. So and we do
a lot of water testing. We've got water testing sites
within the Wai Kai Valleys as an overarching catchment group,
but personally we do a lot of water testing as well,
so we're trying to do as much as we can.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
Are you starting to see some trends in those water testing.
Speaker 9 (42:22):
Here we are.
Speaker 11 (42:22):
Yeah, that's bloody interesting actually, and once you can sort
of understand how to read them, which was which was
a challenge. But yeah, no, absolutely no, we can and
we're just going to try and keep doing a lot
better on that because we're governed around us with you
got fishing game. We deal with fishing game, dot lands
and all these you know things because of their location.
(42:44):
So yeah, it's quite unique. Yeah, do you have a.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
Lot of people passing through the station or trying to
pass through the station too?
Speaker 4 (42:50):
That adds another challenge.
Speaker 11 (42:52):
Yep, we do. So come first of October, you've got
hundreds of fishermen and Wai Kai Valley, so that they're
edge challenges as far as for us for stock stock
movement and the people on property, et cetera. And then
you know, in the summer, Piano Flat is very popular
(43:12):
camping spot, so we get a lot of visitors and
we open the road up that goes through the Waikai
Bush and over the over the range and into into
Rocksburh Shingle creek, so that is another complexity. So there's
always people around, you know.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
Oh, it sounds like there's plenty up the valley to
keep you guys busy. Thank you Simon giving us a
little bit of insight into what happens there at Glenary Station.
And yeah, I wish you all the best for the
winter ahead.
Speaker 11 (43:39):
No, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
That's a Simon Lee there the general manager at Glenary Station.
Speaker 7 (43:49):
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Speaker 3 (43:59):
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Speaker 4 (44:04):
Apparently it's a case of in one ear out the other. Well,
that is us done for a Friday. Thank you very
much for joining us and for the week.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
I am Olivia Weatherburn and it has been an honor
to keep and Amra's seat warm while he has that
well deserved break.
Speaker 4 (44:22):
For in some and moa. We will be back, same time,
same place on Monday.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
And just to finish the reminder of those Hey competitions
across the regions, we have the Waikaka Hey Day next Friday.
The twenty sixth of June and Riversdale Lions also have
via Hay Drive their fiftieth year happening on Friday the
third of July, and we will hear more about those
(44:47):
next week as well.
Speaker 4 (44:49):
See you Monday, have a great weekend.
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