March 18, 2026 • 44 mins
Andy Muir talks to Hugh Jackson, Brenton Howden, Nigel Woodhead, The Beef and Lamb NZ Hogget 150 Group, Nathan Burdon and David Morrison.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Good afternoon and welcome to the muster on Hakanui. My
name's Andy Muller and we're here until two o'clock. Of course,
Axe Petersenedics, welcome along to a beautiful afternoon here in Gtown.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
We'll look at the weather very shortly.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
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Speaker 3 (01:19):
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Speaker 1 (01:27):
This afternoon sunny with rezisal westerleies and seventeen. Friday sunny
with calm, variable wins seven and nineteen. Saturday very similar
sunny with variable wins nine and twenty. Sunday morning showers
a light sou westerleies eight and eighteen, and Monday sunny
with calm, variable wins seven and twenty one. So temperatures
to hand Clinton fourteen point five, Harriet twelve point six,
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Ryn south of thirteen point three, Riverton fifteen point one,
Tn Now thirteen point three, Ditto Woodlands and Winton at
twelve point eight.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
We're away up to the White Canadas, the must of us.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Afternoon Hugh Jackson FMG Young Farmer of the Year winner
from twenty twenty five Karen Champion. We catch up with
Hugh on his farm at Tiakow and see how things
have been over the past week while Niger Woodhead normally
in South Otago, but we catch them up at the
central field. Days up at Fielding today Brenton Holden Farming
(02:21):
over between Dipton and Winton at a place called Bedmore,
and I think it's getting a bit dry over there,
being dry.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
All the way through.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So we catch up with how do you get a
rundown on proceedings from beef and lamb. This is going
to be interesting. We've got a vanload of farmers who
have been up country. They're all part of the hog
at one fifty group and I'm not sure how we're
going to work this, but I've got a plan in place,
so stand by for organized chaos for that and residents
(02:49):
sporting Gary's here as well, the Highlanders against the Canes
tomorrow night and Dave Morrison for PGG Rights and gives
a rundown on the child and sale that was out
this morning. And then we'll start the year with Hugh
Jackson remembering get those texts in regarding Tassit Country to
win a double pass one double pass to give away
text festival to five double oh nine with your details.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Coming in great.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
It starts with the Earth Wait Birch six an airplane.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Lenny Bruce's not a three, I am.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
A hurricane in your south chair.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Hugh Jackson is a reigning f MG Young Farmer of
the Year and he is a voice familiar to a
lot of people down here in the South not that
long ago, who was based not there far out of Riverton.
He was aligned with the Thornberry Club, and we catch
up with them to see our things up there in.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Tkel in the way Keadow. Good afternoon, welcome.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
H Hi, indeed, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Always good to catch up mate. It's been a couple
of days, but there's been a lot of stuff happening.
Firstly up there in the White Ketto. I understand it's
been a pretty dry season.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
You're after rain.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Yeah, everyone's in the different boat, I suppose, even up
here over on the East coast, and but for the
South Ust we've had a lot more rain and places
at times. But yeah, it is your no. Mother nature
likes to throw different googles different ways, and we've had
a good season. There's still plenty of speed round, a
(04:14):
lot of rank stalky stuff, but it'll keep the stock.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Intense for now.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
And yeah, definitely won't say no to some rain, decent rain,
whenever it comes.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I suppose you've been a real market climate there as well,
because you're pretty much aligned to wear regulars.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Yeah, yep, right on the coast. We tend to get
dry pretty early compared to the parts of the country,
and it has advantages. I suppose we should probably grow
but grass grow grass a little bit earlier than other
parts of the shadow that are more central to us.
So yeah, it's definitely FROs and cons comes to look
(04:51):
for sure. But Facebook's ment this time of year can
pop its head up. It's been not too bad so far,
but I guess it's probably better to be dry. Well,
there's better to be driving. Have just a little bit
a few splits of rain here and there that just
sort of helps the face of excess spores and not
much else. So yeah, it's not all bad really, but
(05:11):
some some real decent rain takes you grow from grass
in some stage would retreat.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Do you know what your ever droinfall should be there, Hue?
Speaker 6 (05:21):
About twelve fifty I think is That's what we said
around from memory when I did my practical report at
university here at the found there was one thing we
had to dig up in years. That's what it is
roughly from memory.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah, just remind people who aren't familiar with your farming
operations here what you're running there.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
So mainly bulls trading bulls. We sort of buy them
in it as twelve month old bulls at the earliest,
and we'll still got a few to hopefully find to
top up. There's more like eighteen months bulls before the
winter and you get to our wintering numbers and then
it's the terminal youth flock. Yeah, just the terminal ram
over the yews and just keep it at simple. We
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don't actually tail anything or doc anything. Just keep the
tails on and aim to and till everything fat. We
we sold a handful I think it's turn and fifty
lamb store right at the end there, just to get
rid of them and clean them up. But there's there's
suppose the rest, so not too bad.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
When do you put the ram out?
Speaker 6 (06:22):
We put them out last week, so around that sort
of mid barely to mid marches traditionally when we've done it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Now, of course your young farmer's journey, it's been a
pretty big one for you over the past seven or
eight months. How's a bee from your perspective? I suppose
because you talk about opening up avenues as far as
learning different things about the rural sector, and I suppose
your titled pretty much gives you a good opportunity for that.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Yeah, for sure, it's been It's been a really cool
a few months since then, and time's flying really. We're
not too far away from the end of the regional
finals and then we'll be down and New Plymouth for
the grand final for this year's between twenty six brown
so looking forward to that. But I've definitely been and
(07:13):
done a few things that otherwise one of a few
media interviews and stuff like that, and met a few
people that definitely wouldn't have met otherwise. And I've actually
got the privilege to head down to well Inton next
week with the Dairy Environment leaders for them, so looking
forward to that. Not that I'm dairy farming at the moment,
but they were keen to get a few cross sector
(07:35):
people involved there, So looking forward to a few days
down there and something into some people hopefully that I'll
know and some maybe some new faces as well. So
always good opportunity, I think, and I won't get this
one again, so might as well try and take it
while I can.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Now the why about regionals they're coming up as well, yep.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
So next weekend over to Pocky Ways there they're kicking off,
So looking forward to that, and I'll be heading across
there on the Saturday. And the great build there, good,
good group of competitors, strong strong competition up here, and
the organizing committee is put in some hard work and
(08:16):
looking forward to looking forward to the day coming together.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
As far as the mode regarding the farming, secret at
the moment was seeing highs in the prices. When you're
talking to your mates and the aligned with the industry here,
is there a lot of positivity?
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Yeah, yeah, definitely. Yeah, it's a good time to be
farming for sure. And it's yeah, very very positive out
there as far as as far as primises and all
that go. Obviously, the American sort of war over there
is putting a bit of a spinner in the works.
(08:51):
But as you said earlier, as far as controlling what
we can control and looking at looking at the positives
is definitely putting out there. So if you're not positive
at the moment, it's hard to see when things are
not so great.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I suppose, I suppose you've got to be positive today
as well, because it sounds like the bike's broaken home.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
You've got to walk home, yeah, broken down.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
Yeah, I've got to flip Betty on the old bike
which is becoming a bit of a recurring thing, so
they might have to do something about that. And also
hurt my foot the other day too, so we're we're yeah,
but being up at the moment. But that's all right.
Well we'll come right and carry on for sure.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Hey, good on you, Hugh. Always appreciate your time on
the muster.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
We'll catch up again and you enjoy the rest of
that day out there in the beautiful way Kadow region. Thanks, Andy,
have a good one down there, Hugh Jackson raining FMG
Young Farmer of the Year who he's good to catch up.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
A beautiful part of New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Two, if you ever go to the Whitcadow, make the
trip over to Ragland and the trl area.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
We're a huge base. Doesn't far from there.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
On the right hand side overlooking the water, very pristine Heldn's.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Up next we're going to head over to Bidmore. That's
me in the corner.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
That's been in the spotlight.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Goos and my Religion.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Welcome back to the Muster. The music today is ari
Ym Michael Stipe. That's so on there called Losing My
Religion came out in the early nineties. All of a sudden,
these songs are looking we're only now over thirty thirty four,
getting towards thirty five years old, for goodness sake, no
point reminiscing though. We're in prison tense and we're going
over to bedmore now catching up Brenton Helden farming over
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that way, held you good afternoon.
Speaker 8 (10:41):
How are you going?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Eddie?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Can't really complain.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
On a Southern stunner day like this, although I understand
you're one of these areas could do it for a
bit of moisture.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
Yeah, grounds are, sweet heart, but we go with a
rain there yesterday morning, and yeah, but a jew round.
But yeah, ground is just a weave a hard But
there's always something to play about in.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
There, Oh, there always is.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
But at the same time, grass is always a good
thing to have when you're trying to fed in animals.
Speaker 8 (11:06):
Yeah, that's quite a key component, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
So how's your how's the season been on the lambs
as such?
Speaker 8 (11:12):
Then they're a little bit slow there through Janney in February,
just just lack of vitamin D, but like they're starting
to starting to plump up of it now and get
a bit you sap here. So yeah, I got a
move there last week, so a bit more comfortable now.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
So how far through you kill would you be?
Speaker 9 (11:31):
I must be.
Speaker 8 (11:33):
I think it'll be about sixty or seventy percent through. Yeah,
there's about about twelve hundred left to go still, it's
all about three hundred on crop. The ones on crop
are done really well this year, really well.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
So what have you got them on summer turn ups
of the lakes?
Speaker 8 (11:46):
Yeah, leafy turn up. Yeah, they're just three or four petticks.
They just rotate around and I put my bottoms on
there on the bottoms of Waning, end up going on
there just before New Year and stay on there, and
then yeah, they end up overtaking their bigger brothers. Search
it works out quite good.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Is that a given for you over there, howdy? Just
having to put in summer tournups to try a nuther
thy the summer?
Speaker 8 (12:10):
I could probably I could definitely get away without it,
But I think it's it's a very good tool to
a bit of insurance if it does get dry. If yeah,
you've got that the year and space makes a bit
of space on your grass platform here.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
So do you look at taking any lambs through into
the winter.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Contracts spring contracts or everything you want them going by
a set date.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
Yeah, normally what I'm going by that first week of
during the wh we have a good clear out. By
then it's yeah, we're focusing on the next season. By then,
I think you're only starting to rob Peter of the papal.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Really, So any of you have when do the boys
go out?
Speaker 8 (12:46):
I put the teasers out with the hog ITTs here
on Sunday and the boys will be out with a
mixed age. They're about twelfth the fifth, twelfth or the
fifteenth of April.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Oh and a though, how would you rate the season?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
This has been dry, but prices are suppose has certainly
been a game change of mood wise and for the
pocket too.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
So you've been pretty pretty complete that way.
Speaker 8 (13:07):
Yeah, you can't complain about these prices, can You're like
they're they're where they need to be, Like, yeah, they
nestity to just keep tracking up slowly, and yeah, we
can't really afford to be going back down to seven
or eight dollars. That just makes things very very difficult.
And yeah, at these prices that make things a lot
of people.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I speak to pretty much in that mindset where they're
all on that mindset to be honest, sprinting about keeping
the price up where it is because it has to
stay that way. But say that you're pretty positive about
the outlook of the future for red meat and New Zealand,
say over the next eighteen twenty four months.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
Well, I think I think, yeah, it's pretty positive. Like
it's a supply and demand thing and that like that
bloody critical mess, like we're getting ersonally shaped and it
still demand. I think demand's only rising and that like
even with us around stuff, I think it's that's going
to be a week tempery blutch. But I think, yeah,
I think it's going to be positive going forward.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
And that's something I've asked as well regarding the situation
in the Middle East and if this perhaps may work
in New Zealand's favor regarding people wanting a bit of
our product. Unless remember we just this on the ass
at the bittom of the bottom.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Of the world.
Speaker 8 (14:16):
Yeah, well, you don't know how it's going to turn out.
We're all worried twelve months ago about the tariffs and
how it was going to destroy us and end up
being a positive dint. So yeah, it'd be interesting to
see how it plays out there.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Well, those terrorists are just a bolt from yester year
all of a sudden, because as a case of Donald Trump,
say you hold my beard, may I present you with
this situation. So the fuel game, as we all know,
is a complicated one. But that's just the nature of
the beasts that we're we're faced with.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
Yeah, and other field's definitely a tricky one. Yeah, I
do question you know how much the fuel companies are
taking the puss here a little bit. But yeah, it's
not for me to be looking and do.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
But yeah, talk about a code because we can. You'll
go pretty handy with the rugby bolts. Fear to say,
Barber's your season? When is it actually drinking to gear proper?
Been pre seasons? Well, and when's the camp getting underway?
Speaker 8 (15:06):
It's the weekend after Easter. I mean it's the eleventh.
I think, Yeah, we've had a couple of pre season
games and then we've got a couple of weeks off
with Easter and whatnot, and then ye, then we're into it.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
So there's no games over over Easter as such. The
standing up protation early April.
Speaker 8 (15:20):
No, I think everyone's got that off. I think Division
one might start next weekend and then it's Easter and
then and then we crank into it too.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
So looking good at the Barber's numbers voice.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
Yeah, we'll last couple of weeks with pre seasons a
bit short. The other's people have got other stuff on
weddings and cricket and a few neglae injuries. But we're
making it through. So yeah, I think come come season
proper will be. Yeah, we'll have all the boots on
deck and yeah, it should be looking good.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Mc full boys all going to play and still got
another two weeks and they're back on boards. So have
you been for the playing at the barber since the
inception back in twenty twelve?
Speaker 8 (15:57):
No, I was late. I came to the than sixteen.
It was my first year, so I think this will
be my eleventh year.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
And what year did they get the premiership?
Speaker 8 (16:06):
Two n sixteen? That first year was there?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Oh you were the lucky charm.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
Oh I try to say that, but I don't think.
I don't think I was. There's a few other moving
parts and part of it.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
But yeah, So how's AJ's practices going? And they softened
out a bit from that Dollarmore Park Debarcle.
Speaker 8 (16:22):
Yeah, yeah, it was a bit more. It's a bit
more ball in hand and some skills and stuff. Yeah,
a bit less, a bit less running the house which
is good.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah, hey, get on you how do you let you
carry on?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Always appreciate your time mates and dam yeah catch up
during the footy season.
Speaker 8 (16:37):
That sounds good, cheer any quite.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Britain heldon based over near ben Moore the old ben
More Pub to be more precise around that region. This
is the Master up next with catching up Nigel Woodhead.
He's up at the Central Field Days at fielding today and.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
John's welcome back to the Master.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Niger would Head normally farms in South Totaga between bar
Cluther and Milton, but this afternoon we catch him on tour.
He is up at the Central Field Days and his
other gig Nige.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Good afternoon here afternoon and eat you well, pretty good day.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Like let's look down here in the deep South. It's
beautiful blue sky in abundance. However, I understand up there
it's not that.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
Uh no, it's pretty breezy and quite cool, but it
looks like it's a blue sky coming so hopefully.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Described fielding for people I've never been there, to be honest.
The minimum two is the area I've never really I've
never I think it might have driven through it perhaps,
but at the very most, but describe it.
Speaker 10 (17:47):
It's good, honest, but I couldn't.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
Just a smaller version of Gore really fielding. Yeah, no,
it's not a bad spot, just flowing like like you
afternoon and we got the hotel room and field holding
and yeah, it's not a bit spot up here. I
like it. It's good, good farming area. You have a
lot of dairy farms cropping and then shaving beef on
the hills with it like seattland. So things are nice
(18:12):
and green up here at the moment too.
Speaker 10 (18:13):
That's for free.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Well, speaking of huge exon just before an underway Keado
where he's based near Regulan, they're pretty dry, but around
there it's obviously looking pretty deeper.
Speaker 10 (18:23):
Yeah, no, we've it. It looks really good here at
the moment.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
San the menu too, so yeah, I'm up here just
with resolution at central distance field days. So there's three
of us here for a couple of days, catching up
a few users and catching up a few sort of
hopefully potential users.
Speaker 10 (18:42):
But some paces it's good.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
So's everything looking on the farm at the moment.
Speaker 10 (18:47):
Really good?
Speaker 7 (18:48):
Yeah, yeah, things are things are hammon actually like at
things finally warmed up of it. We're actually getting a
bit of warmth in March, so the feeds hardened off
and weave it and stop.
Speaker 10 (18:58):
Seem to be doing pretty well. I think we talked
about a couple of weeks ago the whole worm things.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
I just really keeping an eye on thatt the bet
it was out yesterday morning.
Speaker 10 (19:09):
Actually taken.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Like poose samples off the fifth week the production lambs,
and yeah, ten.
Speaker 10 (19:16):
Days after we dreaped them. Then they've really picked up.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
They just look a lot rounder and square and a
lot happier. So there's obviously some worms they've been giving
them a hard time. But yeah, we'll'll be a couple
of weeks and we'll get some results back from that
drench cheek or drench teeste, and we'll make sure everything's
still working like it should.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
The key things to remember around where your family Niger's
that over the past three or four autumns has been
notoriously tough going.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
So finally it's changed for you.
Speaker 10 (19:44):
Yeah, no, we can't good.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Yeah, there's plenty of feed around, probably did. Yeah, it's
a different winge to usual, but it's just a bit
a bit of a bed or keeping control on quality.
But there's most of the farms actually.
Speaker 10 (19:58):
Looking really good.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
It's just sort of an area at the back of
ten dozen paddocks that you probably missed, missed the grazing
and start of February, and they've got gotten away out
of us a bit, so there's definitely some ruffage there
for us.
Speaker 10 (20:14):
After mating.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
So yeah, I don't think it'll be hard to keep
the animals feed in the early part of winter anyway.
The crops are looking really good as well, so.
Speaker 10 (20:24):
Hopefully we can.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
We can make the most of winter and get everything
set up for next to you nicely so.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
You're on target to get the lambs away at the
dates you want.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
Well, we were, and then I just was trying to
book in some space yesterday for draft actually and he
reckons he's got double the amount of lambs and he
had space, so you know, everyone was sort of talking
about the fact that all of a sudden, noise lambs
are going to come out of woodwork, and it sounds
like they've they've turned up, so yeah, it's we're probably
where we won't get anything to kill next week. It
(20:53):
looks like it'd be the week after, but we've got
a reasonably fat number and the drafters die, so hopefully
we can get some space and Monday, Tuesday, next week's
job is to get.
Speaker 10 (21:05):
A way up and get a confirmed telly.
Speaker 7 (21:07):
So yeah, well yeah we'll we'll hak and and kill
as many as we can.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I say so, up to now, space hasn't been an issue.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
No, it hasn't been.
Speaker 10 (21:16):
You're right.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
Probably the biggest issue has just been getting stuck to do.
But yeah, all of a sudden, you know, all the
lamb is coming on board at once and all health
breaking loose. But we knew it was going to come.
And you know, there's still cleaning capacity. Will the works
will get through them, and we've got I think Dad's
dead drafted some balls this morning, so we've got balls
(21:37):
going on the truck this afternoon.
Speaker 11 (21:38):
So it would be good to get rid of some.
Speaker 10 (21:41):
Too cattle.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Well, the good news for you as well as having
all that attacker they use, they have a bit of
a flush if they need it.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Yes, yeah, I'm trying to keep the us moving at
the moment. And we had them through the yards and
teen days ago and took a bottom had had a
look at them, took the bottom end off and they're
basically getting shifted all the time. Lock of more as
though there are more the lambs, keep them moving, take
the pressure off and yeah, the whole all the users
(22:08):
need to come back and again next week it's another
job on the yards and get an id in Jeb
and just make sure make sure there's they're all on
track ready for the rams. So yeah, but most overall
the years are looking pretty good. So it's been a
good sort of kttle and obviously season really it's been
quite good.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Well.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Concerns to have regarding the geopolitical situation around the world
and help. It's relating to the flow un affixed in
New Zealand. We're seeing it on fuel and that are
you going to do you think there be anything else
we need to be concerned about supply chains?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Yes, what about in the farming scenes.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
That it'll be interesting just to see and pecks of it,
like you know, war tends to be followed up by
economic surgers like it was. If anything I've seen, yeah,
like if I've picked up on anything like it's all
hell break loose and then there's always there's always upside
there for someone. So I mean, the world still needs
(23:05):
feed and a lot of our product, a lot of
it goes to the Middle East, but we've got a
lot of product god all around the rest of the world,
So shipping will have the fuel price will have an
impact on shipping, but provided shipping routes around the rest
of the world stay open, hopefully our product can still
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get to the rest of the world. And the world
wants what we're producing at the moment, and sounds like
they're happy, well happy enough to pay.
Speaker 10 (23:35):
What we're asking them to pay. So I don't know.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
Part of me, part of me is concerned about what
what might happen the next time month, but there's actually
a part of me that's quite themistic about the fact, well,
this might result in prices holding a bit because food
might continue to be a bit scarce. So yeah, I
(23:59):
don't know if that answers you questioned, Andy, But I
think I'm actually reason they bolish about the next twelve
to eighteen months or things. As far as agriculture goes,
it sounds like some of the prices are reasonably well
backdun then depending on what happens with costs. Hopefully you
know I some prosperity. Prosperity will hang around.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Good on your Nage'll let you carry on a beautiful
field and catch up next time.
Speaker 10 (24:23):
Good Ni.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Niga Woodhead farming in South Otago, but up at the
central field days and fielding up next the team from
Beef and Lamb. And I say team, I mean a team.
We're going to see how this goes organized chaos. There's
a vanload of them on the road coming south somewhere
from Dunedin.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Jamie the Muster Evstari brought to you by Beef and Lamb,
New Zealand. Go to Beef Lamb insid dot com.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
This afternoon in the Beef and Lamb slot. We've got
a cast of millions. We've got a team who have
been up looking at farms as part of the Beef
and Lamb Farm focus Group. We're starting off for Andrew Walsh.
I'm not sure how this is going to go, but
there's only one way to find out. Snow, good afternoon.
Give us a bit of background. Where have you guys been.
Speaker 11 (25:17):
Yeah, well we're the with Beef and Lamb with a
one fifty group. Andy so we left. We met at
Triva of the Trout on Tuesday morning and we've been
traveling around. We're visiting five farms when we're on their
travel sort of sort of that central Otago sort of
area and traveling around. So, yeah, you've got ten of
(25:37):
us on a van at the moment getting south from Dunedin.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
See how many farms you've been visiting? Snow? What's been
the gay five?
Speaker 11 (25:45):
So when she started off at James Diggers on Tuesday
morning and had a good look around his couple of
his farms there. So yeah, very there's some very sharper
operations here as we're going around. So we're picking up
some good tips and tricks as we go and pass
on a bit of knowledge. Is whatever knowledge we can
hand on as we go.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
To ground conditions up in South Canterbury.
Speaker 11 (26:05):
How have they been fantastic up there? They've been getting
rain for they've had a ripper of a season.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Okay, how are you passing the phone on to?
Speaker 11 (26:12):
Now we'll pass it round. We were going to do
one word each and pass around the van.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
But you can please to sell what you do. I
mean this is open to interpretation. At least keep the
ball rolling.
Speaker 11 (26:22):
We'll roll on to someone and see where we end up.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Righty eight, This could go anywhere berewith right, who have
we got? How are you there?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (26:32):
Hey, you're not any his Jordy.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Here, Jordy all the big dogs. How are you, Jordy?
Speaker 6 (26:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Good?
Speaker 11 (26:37):
Thanks?
Speaker 10 (26:38):
Good, good good.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
How's the trip been?
Speaker 5 (26:40):
You know?
Speaker 11 (26:40):
Good trip covered bit of ground, but country a bit
different normally used to in southern souven Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
How long have you been involved with a hog at
one fifty group?
Speaker 11 (26:48):
This kicked off about two nineteen. We had our first
trip to the water wrapp in about twenty twenty just
for COVID. Actually, so we've covered but a ground as
a group. Twenty twenty two we went to North Canterbury
and then we're this wen beenywhere since now we've always
had this on our buck and lists too, little march
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through Centraltaga and whatnot.
Speaker 10 (27:11):
So here we are doing it.
Speaker 12 (27:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
It's always good to have a bucket loose, especially if
the hoger group. Now tell me, when you're up in
that neck of the woods is a thinking around hog
it mating the same as down south.
Speaker 11 (27:21):
Yeah, we're on the greenest sort of places. It is
like yesterday though, I even Wilson he's sort of changed
the marinos, so it's sort of a change of tax
Then you're sort of more into a production system probably
where you know where he's fat in the lambs and
then and also getting the point all out the other side.
So it's sort of something but different to what we're
normally used, but at the same time still trying to
do a lot of meat and the heck there.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Of course I'm speaking to Jordy. E there, Raveden correspondent.
Ground conditions back home, Jordy, how have they been when
you were there?
Speaker 11 (27:49):
Either been awesome? Yeah, I can say, you know, the
autumn just keeps rolling on for us on the coast.
We can't really speak any more of the dairy farms,
not Wene Islands yet. And no, the grasses keep right
on in front of the Lamb's goings pretty.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Quick here, quite awesome, Jordy, appreciate it, mate, Pass the
phone on, he's keep the ball rolling.
Speaker 13 (28:06):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Good wan for some music in the background. Actually this
could be a bit of dear here if we're not careful, right,
Who have we got? Hello, Hayden, how are you mate?
Speaker 6 (28:17):
Good?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Worry about to you? Based.
Speaker 12 (28:20):
I'm both down at Tocao on the coast.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
No, you'll be having a decent season down there, are you, Hayden.
Speaker 12 (28:26):
You know we can't complain about the season.
Speaker 11 (28:28):
Yeh think their favorite this year?
Speaker 12 (28:30):
Yeah, maybe fuel prices.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Yeah, I hope you guys are all car pooling putting
ten twenty backs and for the for the fueld stops.
Speaker 12 (28:38):
Yeah, yeah, we've cat pulled up.
Speaker 11 (28:40):
So yeah, there's three of us came up from down.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
So, Hayden, regarding the one hog at one fifty group
for you, have you been involved for a while.
Speaker 12 (28:48):
Yeah, well I was probably one of the guys at
founders that way back in the early off a partnership,
so you know, when the guys got off the ground.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
A nice one, so you'd be pretty you'll be pretty
chuffed or proud, I should say. Is the way the
group's evolved.
Speaker 12 (29:03):
Yeah, well we've got probably suck the rate of us
that are the original guys and then edited a couple
of guys along the way.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Are you packing about who you choose or you're not
too fast? As long as people are sharing the same
passion of space.
Speaker 12 (29:15):
The initial theme was Hoggart lambing and yeah, a lot
of the people that are part of a group of
or hoogert lambing.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
So the key theme, it's fascinating the way that the
people's psychy towards hoggot lambing has changed, especially in the
last twenty twenty five years.
Speaker 12 (29:30):
Yeah, well, you know, to be profitable you need to
be leaving you hogit really and the groupers, so it's
not real opportunity there to get ay few more dollars down,
especially I pay out like this with them with the
lamb prices.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Hey, good on your Hayden. We'll pass the phone. I
appreciate your time, mate, safe travels. All right, who we
got next? This is cast to thousands quite literally. Harry
ends the song. By the way, I'm shiny, happy people.
It's happy people and vanned by the sounds of it.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
Right.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Who we got Hello?
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (30:03):
Okay, Andy Bevan hop crop here go Bevan. How are
you badly away for a Thursday?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Betting away like a northern south and farmer does?
Speaker 9 (30:12):
Yes, yes, yes, that's right.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Our ground conditions are wind inside? How have they been dry?
Speaker 9 (30:17):
Hard and fast year?
Speaker 10 (30:19):
The trackers?
Speaker 9 (30:20):
Yeah, you know we're dry. We've been dry for three
or four months ago. We're just sort of missing out
of weaving on the rain, probably one hundred and fifty
mils behind.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Yeah, it's interesting how you speak to you's saying the
same thing as well, Bevan. Regarding rainfall, I mean parts
of northern South and around Riversdale, especially like the Kuwiku
in places certainly behind where they need to be for
this time of year. But as far as your operation goes,
has it affected production too? Not too badly?
Speaker 8 (30:47):
No, not too bad?
Speaker 9 (30:48):
Are we just?
Speaker 11 (30:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (30:50):
The lands have been going going well, but we just
made a call of about three weeks ago and so
solved the last stores so we can start it see
this year and look after, look after the capital stock.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
You would have got over five backs for your stores,
did you?
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Ah?
Speaker 10 (31:08):
You had no comments, cave On.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
It's a coffee out answer. You've been to the net
cap on. No, no, no, you just just over five
backs handsome dividends. Is there is the required answer?
Speaker 14 (31:21):
Right?
Speaker 9 (31:22):
That's right, that's right on the old grendade, on this tour,
on the oldest we wait, so I'm looking after these
young all right?
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Yeah, so you're all tacked up from bed by ten
o'clock class right after a cap of coco.
Speaker 9 (31:34):
Right, not quite just to weave it after that. I'm
not far off.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
No, Hell was a casino.
Speaker 9 (31:41):
I didn't like it in there because I had my
les on.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Hey, good on your baby, keep the keep the phone passing, mate,
thanks for your time. Here we go someone else? Hello,
who we got?
Speaker 10 (32:02):
Get Andy?
Speaker 15 (32:02):
It's will Inda here.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Get a will Endy mller. How are you mate?
Speaker 10 (32:06):
Good? Thanks?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Good good will? Whereabouts you based?
Speaker 11 (32:09):
We're at Tipton, so.
Speaker 15 (32:11):
Yeah, we're probably half now from beav And I suppose,
but we were dry up until sort of the end
of January and we're probably looking as good now as
it looked looked all season. Yeah, we got good rain
intergenuary and it's looking a picture at the moment.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
That's a good way to be for autumns. You're not
far from the Canndrum Bridge.
Speaker 15 (32:30):
Then, yes, yeah, yeah, you know they must be getting
close to getting it finished.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I think, well, at the end of it, how bad
has it affected your routine having that bridge the way
it is?
Speaker 15 (32:39):
Well, not too bad, to be honest. We've been very
lucky that fell at the local engineering at Tipton has
opened up sort of a track for us to use.
Speaker 10 (32:50):
The locals.
Speaker 11 (32:50):
Yeah, it's been slody excellent.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
So how would you rate the season on a whole
compared to what you normally experienced for this time of year?
Speaker 5 (32:59):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (33:00):
Pretty good.
Speaker 15 (33:00):
Really, we can't vault it like that. The prices is
obviously the big one. Yeah, you know, we can't complain
a bit.
Speaker 10 (33:07):
Much at the moment.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Really absolutely. Okay, Hey, thanks to your time. We'll pass
me on to one more person then we'll call it quits.
Clear Sutenburg. Possibly she's driving, isn't she?
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (33:17):
Yeah, yeah, please driving.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Well, one more person will leave it at there. But
this has actually gone quite well.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
Thanks and good idea.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
One more person to go, of course, be for lend
the slot.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
We're speaking to a cast of thousands this afternoon, if
not millions, God they who have we got?
Speaker 12 (33:38):
Ready?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Yeah? Back to snow. So it's been a good trip.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Has been a good breakaway mental health break, I suppose
before the boys go out.
Speaker 11 (33:46):
Yeah, yeah, no idea, right, but that any but yeah, lot,
we have taken a lot out of it getting around,
Like obviously some of the farms are just totally different
than what we're used to Salem especially, get up in
that Middle March country and there and there. But still
some very smart operations that are going on there, and
you pick something new up everywhere you go.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
When you say that, are you're relating more of the
likes of Crossbreed Final operations?
Speaker 11 (34:12):
Yeah, yep. We've been seeing abo everything as we're going around,
to be fair, and just different different techniques with Lamb
patting drops and and options on the on how they
do things, and we've sort of been able to pass
on a bit of air knowledge as well as we
go with Hell, we've gone on with different drops, lots
of the kale and and that sort of thing, which yeah,
just helps everyone out.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Really, Does they much kale up country? Did you say?
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (34:35):
There is?
Speaker 11 (34:36):
Yep, there's there's definitely guys up there. They're putting labs
on kale as well and getting good results from it.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Hey, nice one, So no, we've better leave it there about. Hey,
thank everyone for the time, especially Bevan Hopcraft. Yeah, hopefully
not do your hang over. It sounds like a good
trip and he will catch up again in due course.
Speaker 11 (34:53):
She has a good any I think he goes us
at the perfect time. They're pretty well behaved at the moment.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
The tea from Beef and Lamb the Hog at one
fifty focus group making the away south to appreciate their time.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Clee Totenberg as well, driving so out unclear. We'll wrap
up next.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Nathan Burdon, resident sporting Guru, our resident spotting gury. Nathan
Burdon joins us this afternoon on the Muster. Nathan, good afternoon,
Good mate, how are you can't really complain on a
(35:31):
bluebird afternoon like it is? And gore today?
Speaker 2 (35:34):
So maybe summers arrived. It's just a little bit late,
a little bit late, but a bitter late than never. Eh, Yeah,
talking about a bit of late.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Vanierva who was late to the party figuring out that
the black Caps are playing the pro Tears and cricket.
Speaker 14 (35:47):
So yeah, I've definitely put my hand up for one
of those. Does feel like a little bit of a
hangover from the T twenty World Cup, doesn't it. But
for all that of actually Alloid, some of the cricket,
and for all that both both of you, the first
two games have been reasonably sort of one sided, and
(36:10):
obviously we've you know, we've been able to seek a
winning that second game. But even though I've sort of
stumbled across both games, we ended up game two because
we were going pretty well watching watching most of it,
and we're still actually playing some pretty good cricket.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
It's just that time of year where winter and summer
sports crossover. Super Rugby's four weeks some for goodness sake,
and yet we was still an international cricket happening on
the TV on the other side.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Of the telly.
Speaker 14 (36:35):
Yeah, I mean it's it happens at international level, it
happens at local level. You can you could have probably
imagined someone heading out of the driveway and turning left
instead of turning right and showing up at cricket when
they're supposed to be at rugby practice. They've got the
pads on the back instead of the rugby boots. Yeah,
it's that niggly little shoulder season, isn't it. Before we
sort of decide whether we're officially in winter and we've
(36:58):
given up on summer, or whether we're still hanging on
to the end of summer.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Now, rugby's getting underway here in the South. I think
did one sooner than later, followed by prem and the
other competitions, but as well, we've still got a couple
of weeks to go in the South of my cracket
competition in the Premier Grade on Saturday where Kerry Kerry's
playing playing Appleby. Actually it's a replay of last year's
final where Appleby won by one run. I was going
(37:24):
to say a goal went to cross over there and
the winner goes through to play in the Cargo Old
Boys the following weekend.
Speaker 14 (37:31):
Yeah, all roads lead to wait koy koy, don't they
on Saturday. I hazard a guess that that's probably the
biggest thing happening in the township this weekend. And these
two teams have had a ding dong battle. There was
that there, there was that game you mentioned from last year,
but we caught up with the Appleby captain Sam Downing
(37:52):
during the week and they've been at it this year.
There was a one wickets when earlier in the season.
There was a tie earlier in the season as well,
and then the last time out Wai Koiki actually gave
apple Be a good old a good old fashion threshing.
So that's that's left a bit of a rock under
the under the blanket for the Applebee Boys and they'll
(38:14):
be going out with out to Wai Koi Kou with
a bit of point to prove, but obviously home home
field advantage will be pretty important.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Too the Highlanders. They've got the Hurricanes tomorrow night as well.
I think you say this every week from the Landers
from now on. The need to end to stay relevant
in the competition.
Speaker 14 (38:29):
Almost they I mean, they could have easily had a
better record than their two and four record, is couldn't they?
But this is this is where they're at. They've they've
shown plenty of promise, but you know one thing that
they're going to have to get that malfunctioning line out
sorted out sooner rather than later if they want to
(38:51):
if they want to.
Speaker 10 (38:51):
Win games, they'll know that.
Speaker 14 (38:53):
It doesn't make it any easier when the likes of Labannini,
Fabian holland Mitch Dunshe. You know, they've they've had they've
had a horror run of injuries with these second rowers.
So they're gonna have to feesh in some sort of
a lineout if they want to be competitive against the
Highland of the Hurricanes and the cavalryes arrived see Ken
(39:13):
Roygard and Ruben Love coming back into the line up there,
so they'll be there'll be a challenge for sure.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Is this on Jack Taylor the throwing or is this
the fact that injuries have played a big part Because
Jack Taylor around the field, he's been outstanding this season.
Speaker 14 (39:27):
I think, yeah, I've just seen another an outstanding south
and hooker. David Halls just wanted to pass me actually
as we as we have this conversation, crazy just walking past.
But no, we can't blame it on Jeck Jack, can
we Absolutely not? With their parochial eye patch on. There's
so many moving parts, isn't there to a line out
to imagine there's there's ip around who calls these things.
(39:51):
It's the it's the period of the game and the
part of the field during the poor old bloke that
that throws it in Tim's to tends to copy it.
But but yeah, no, I'm not gonna definitely not gonna
blame it on Jack. And he's and he's he's playing
so well around the field, isn't he's having a he's
having a barnstormer of a season. So they can sort
(40:11):
this line out out Delby, they'll be.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Going, well, yeah, I'm enjoying watching him around the panic.
His aggression is there to be noted in himself and
de greet. The Southland influence certainly holding up their end.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Of the deal.
Speaker 14 (40:23):
Well, and I think you forget just how, just how,
and I want to I want to say twenty one
maybe for for Jack Taylor, just off the top of
my head, you know, for for a type Ford he's
already becoming a presence in super rugby very early in
his Highlanders career. And I know, and you know you
don't want to talk about this sort of stuff too much,
(40:45):
but there is a massive all black squad potentially heading
over to South Africa later in the year, and you know,
you'd have to imagine that Jack Taylor, if if he
can continue this super rugby form, will be will be
a big part of that conversation.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Now, the Masters isn't that far away in the golfing scenes.
This is an interesting thing about the Masters. If you
win it the year previously, you get to pick.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
The menu for the opening night.
Speaker 8 (41:10):
Is that right?
Speaker 14 (41:11):
Yeah, that's dead right. It's just one of those interesting
idiosyncrasies of a tournament that is just full of interesting idiosyncrasies.
If you love your golf, you generally love the Masters.
And I think if on any golfers bucket list, if
there was one, if there was one course around the world,
that you could play, you'd ask if you could have
(41:33):
a have a we tried around Augusta National. It just
presents itself as such a such a picture on TV. Obviously,
some of the other stuff that goes on around the
place a little bit problematic. But just if we just
focus on the golf, it's an outstanding week, and yeah,
I love that. It's actually got me thinking a little
(41:54):
bit about what my I don't think I'll ever win
the Masters, but just in case, just in case I did,
what mind what might mean you would be I don't
know if I could come up with twelve twelve different
options like Rory has.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
But you know, southern lame, definite la. So you need
a bit of petn't have to be part of it.
Speaker 14 (42:11):
When you can imagine they'd probably do the old the
old private straight out of straight out of them the
cargo and h and straight to and straight to Augusta out.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Of Tim Shevelt, Sir Tom Shevelt International Airport. Good on
your knafe, leave it, They're always got to catch up.
Speaker 14 (42:26):
A sounds good mate, Thank you, laugh.
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Speaker 13 (43:15):
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today best of them was sort of two twenty to
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Speaker 5 (43:31):
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Speaker 13 (43:33):
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Speaker 7 (43:47):
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Speaker 5 (43:48):
Today, very heavy use to forty to two seventy many
of them anywhere from sort of one seventy.
Speaker 10 (43:56):
Five to two hundred.
Speaker 5 (43:58):
With the light of condition us still becaus around the
sort of many way for one hundred and fifty two.
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Stall am Storlane is probably better. The best of store
lams one thirty five to one forty five, one fifty
millium sort of one fifteen to one twenty, the large
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sunny with variable wins nine and twenty. Sunday morning showers
a light sou westerleies eight and eighteen, and Monday sunny
with calm, variable wins seven and twenty one. So temperatures
to hand Clinton fourteen point five, Harriet twelve point six,
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Ryn south of thirteen point three, Riverton fifteen point one,
Tn Now thirteen point three, Ditto Woodlands and Winton at
twelve point eight.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
We're away up to the White Canadas, the must of us.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Afternoon Hugh Jackson FMG Young Farmer of the Year winner
from twenty twenty five Karen Champion. We catch up with
Hugh on his farm at Tiakow and see how things
have been over the past week while Niger Woodhead normally
in South Otago, but we catch them up at the
central field. Days up at Fielding today Brenton Holden Farming
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over between Dipton and Winton at a place called Bedmore,
and I think it's getting a bit dry over there,
being dry.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
All the way through.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So we catch up with how do you get a
rundown on proceedings from beef and lamb. This is going
to be interesting. We've got a vanload of farmers who
have been up country. They're all part of the hog
at one fifty group and I'm not sure how we're
going to work this, but I've got a plan in place,
so stand by for organized chaos for that and residents
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sporting Gary's here as well, the Highlanders against the Canes
tomorrow night and Dave Morrison for PGG Rights and gives
a rundown on the child and sale that was out
this morning. And then we'll start the year with Hugh
Jackson remembering get those texts in regarding Tassit Country to
win a double pass one double pass to give away
text festival to five double oh nine with your details.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Coming in great.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
It starts with the Earth Wait Birch six an airplane.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Lenny Bruce's not a three, I am.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
A hurricane in your south chair.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Hugh Jackson is a reigning f MG Young Farmer of
the Year and he is a voice familiar to a
lot of people down here in the South not that
long ago, who was based not there far out of Riverton.
He was aligned with the Thornberry Club, and we catch
up with them to see our things up there in.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Tkel in the way Keadow. Good afternoon, welcome.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
H Hi, indeed, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Always good to catch up mate. It's been a couple
of days, but there's been a lot of stuff happening.
Firstly up there in the White Ketto. I understand it's
been a pretty dry season.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
You're after rain.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Yeah, everyone's in the different boat, I suppose, even up
here over on the East coast, and but for the
South Ust we've had a lot more rain and places
at times. But yeah, it is your no. Mother nature
likes to throw different googles different ways, and we've had
a good season. There's still plenty of speed round, a
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lot of rank stalky stuff, but it'll keep the stock.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Intense for now.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
And yeah, definitely won't say no to some rain, decent rain,
whenever it comes.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I suppose you've been a real market climate there as well,
because you're pretty much aligned to wear regulars.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Yeah, yep, right on the coast. We tend to get
dry pretty early compared to the parts of the country,
and it has advantages. I suppose we should probably grow
but grass grow grass a little bit earlier than other
parts of the shadow that are more central to us.
So yeah, it's definitely FROs and cons comes to look
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for sure. But Facebook's ment this time of year can
pop its head up. It's been not too bad so far,
but I guess it's probably better to be dry. Well,
there's better to be driving. Have just a little bit
a few splits of rain here and there that just
sort of helps the face of excess spores and not
much else. So yeah, it's not all bad really, but
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some some real decent rain takes you grow from grass
in some stage would retreat.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Do you know what your ever droinfall should be there, Hue?
Speaker 6 (05:21):
About twelve fifty I think is That's what we said
around from memory when I did my practical report at
university here at the found there was one thing we
had to dig up in years. That's what it is
roughly from memory.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah, just remind people who aren't familiar with your farming
operations here what you're running there.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
So mainly bulls trading bulls. We sort of buy them
in it as twelve month old bulls at the earliest,
and we'll still got a few to hopefully find to
top up. There's more like eighteen months bulls before the
winter and you get to our wintering numbers and then
it's the terminal youth flock. Yeah, just the terminal ram
over the yews and just keep it at simple. We
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don't actually tail anything or doc anything. Just keep the
tails on and aim to and till everything fat. We
we sold a handful I think it's turn and fifty
lamb store right at the end there, just to get
rid of them and clean them up. But there's there's
suppose the rest, so not too bad.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
When do you put the ram out?
Speaker 6 (06:22):
We put them out last week, so around that sort
of mid barely to mid marches traditionally when we've done it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Now, of course your young farmer's journey, it's been a
pretty big one for you over the past seven or
eight months. How's a bee from your perspective? I suppose
because you talk about opening up avenues as far as
learning different things about the rural sector, and I suppose
your titled pretty much gives you a good opportunity for that.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Yeah, for sure, it's been It's been a really cool
a few months since then, and time's flying really. We're
not too far away from the end of the regional
finals and then we'll be down and New Plymouth for
the grand final for this year's between twenty six brown
so looking forward to that. But I've definitely been and
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done a few things that otherwise one of a few
media interviews and stuff like that, and met a few
people that definitely wouldn't have met otherwise. And I've actually
got the privilege to head down to well Inton next
week with the Dairy Environment leaders for them, so looking
forward to that. Not that I'm dairy farming at the moment,
but they were keen to get a few cross sector
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people involved there, So looking forward to a few days
down there and something into some people hopefully that I'll
know and some maybe some new faces as well. So
always good opportunity, I think, and I won't get this
one again, so might as well try and take it
while I can.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Now the why about regionals they're coming up as well, yep.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
So next weekend over to Pocky Ways there they're kicking off,
So looking forward to that, and I'll be heading across
there on the Saturday. And the great build there, good,
good group of competitors, strong strong competition up here, and
the organizing committee is put in some hard work and
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looking forward to looking forward to the day coming together.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
As far as the mode regarding the farming, secret at
the moment was seeing highs in the prices. When you're
talking to your mates and the aligned with the industry here,
is there a lot of positivity?
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Yeah, yeah, definitely. Yeah, it's a good time to be
farming for sure. And it's yeah, very very positive out
there as far as as far as primises and all
that go. Obviously, the American sort of war over there
is putting a bit of a spinner in the works.
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But as you said earlier, as far as controlling what
we can control and looking at looking at the positives
is definitely putting out there. So if you're not positive
at the moment, it's hard to see when things are
not so great.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I suppose, I suppose you've got to be positive today
as well, because it sounds like the bike's broaken home.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
You've got to walk home, yeah, broken down.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
Yeah, I've got to flip Betty on the old bike
which is becoming a bit of a recurring thing, so
they might have to do something about that. And also
hurt my foot the other day too, so we're we're yeah,
but being up at the moment. But that's all right.
Well we'll come right and carry on for sure.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Hey, good on you, Hugh. Always appreciate your time on
the muster.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
We'll catch up again and you enjoy the rest of
that day out there in the beautiful way Kadow region. Thanks, Andy,
have a good one down there, Hugh Jackson raining FMG
Young Farmer of the Year who he's good to catch up.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
A beautiful part of New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Two, if you ever go to the Whitcadow, make the
trip over to Ragland and the trl area.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
We're a huge base. Doesn't far from there.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
On the right hand side overlooking the water, very pristine Heldn's.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Up next we're going to head over to Bidmore. That's
me in the corner.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
That's been in the spotlight.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Goos and my Religion.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Welcome back to the Muster. The music today is ari
Ym Michael Stipe. That's so on there called Losing My
Religion came out in the early nineties. All of a sudden,
these songs are looking we're only now over thirty thirty four,
getting towards thirty five years old, for goodness sake, no
point reminiscing though. We're in prison tense and we're going
over to bedmore now catching up Brenton Helden farming over
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that way, held you good afternoon.
Speaker 8 (10:41):
How are you going?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Eddie?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Can't really complain.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
On a Southern stunner day like this, although I understand
you're one of these areas could do it for a
bit of moisture.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
Yeah, grounds are, sweet heart, but we go with a
rain there yesterday morning, and yeah, but a jew round.
But yeah, ground is just a weave a hard But
there's always something to play about in.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
There, Oh, there always is.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
But at the same time, grass is always a good
thing to have when you're trying to fed in animals.
Speaker 8 (11:06):
Yeah, that's quite a key component, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
So how's your how's the season been on the lambs
as such?
Speaker 8 (11:12):
Then they're a little bit slow there through Janney in February,
just just lack of vitamin D, but like they're starting
to starting to plump up of it now and get
a bit you sap here. So yeah, I got a
move there last week, so a bit more comfortable now.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
So how far through you kill would you be?
Speaker 9 (11:31):
I must be.
Speaker 8 (11:33):
I think it'll be about sixty or seventy percent through. Yeah,
there's about about twelve hundred left to go still, it's
all about three hundred on crop. The ones on crop
are done really well this year, really well.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
So what have you got them on summer turn ups
of the lakes?
Speaker 8 (11:46):
Yeah, leafy turn up. Yeah, they're just three or four petticks.
They just rotate around and I put my bottoms on
there on the bottoms of Waning, end up going on
there just before New Year and stay on there, and
then yeah, they end up overtaking their bigger brothers. Search
it works out quite good.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Is that a given for you over there, howdy? Just
having to put in summer tournups to try a nuther
thy the summer?
Speaker 8 (12:10):
I could probably I could definitely get away without it,
But I think it's it's a very good tool to
a bit of insurance if it does get dry. If yeah,
you've got that the year and space makes a bit
of space on your grass platform here.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
So do you look at taking any lambs through into
the winter.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Contracts spring contracts or everything you want them going by
a set date.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
Yeah, normally what I'm going by that first week of
during the wh we have a good clear out. By
then it's yeah, we're focusing on the next season. By then,
I think you're only starting to rob Peter of the papal.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Really, So any of you have when do the boys
go out?
Speaker 8 (12:46):
I put the teasers out with the hog ITTs here
on Sunday and the boys will be out with a
mixed age. They're about twelfth the fifth, twelfth or the
fifteenth of April.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Oh and a though, how would you rate the season?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
This has been dry, but prices are suppose has certainly
been a game change of mood wise and for the
pocket too.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
So you've been pretty pretty complete that way.
Speaker 8 (13:07):
Yeah, you can't complain about these prices, can You're like
they're they're where they need to be, Like, yeah, they
nestity to just keep tracking up slowly, and yeah, we
can't really afford to be going back down to seven
or eight dollars. That just makes things very very difficult.
And yeah, at these prices that make things a lot
of people.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I speak to pretty much in that mindset where they're
all on that mindset to be honest, sprinting about keeping
the price up where it is because it has to
stay that way. But say that you're pretty positive about
the outlook of the future for red meat and New Zealand,
say over the next eighteen twenty four months.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
Well, I think I think, yeah, it's pretty positive. Like
it's a supply and demand thing and that like that
bloody critical mess, like we're getting ersonally shaped and it
still demand. I think demand's only rising and that like
even with us around stuff, I think it's that's going
to be a week tempery blutch. But I think, yeah,
I think it's going to be positive going forward.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
And that's something I've asked as well regarding the situation
in the Middle East and if this perhaps may work
in New Zealand's favor regarding people wanting a bit of
our product. Unless remember we just this on the ass
at the bittom of the bottom.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Of the world.
Speaker 8 (14:16):
Yeah, well, you don't know how it's going to turn out.
We're all worried twelve months ago about the tariffs and
how it was going to destroy us and end up
being a positive dint. So yeah, it'd be interesting to
see how it plays out there.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Well, those terrorists are just a bolt from yester year
all of a sudden, because as a case of Donald Trump,
say you hold my beard, may I present you with
this situation. So the fuel game, as we all know,
is a complicated one. But that's just the nature of
the beasts that we're we're faced with.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
Yeah, and other field's definitely a tricky one. Yeah, I
do question you know how much the fuel companies are
taking the puss here a little bit. But yeah, it's
not for me to be looking and do.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
But yeah, talk about a code because we can. You'll
go pretty handy with the rugby bolts. Fear to say,
Barber's your season? When is it actually drinking to gear proper?
Been pre seasons? Well, and when's the camp getting underway?
Speaker 8 (15:06):
It's the weekend after Easter. I mean it's the eleventh.
I think, Yeah, we've had a couple of pre season
games and then we've got a couple of weeks off
with Easter and whatnot, and then ye, then we're into it.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
So there's no games over over Easter as such. The
standing up protation early April.
Speaker 8 (15:20):
No, I think everyone's got that off. I think Division
one might start next weekend and then it's Easter and
then and then we crank into it too.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
So looking good at the Barber's numbers voice.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
Yeah, we'll last couple of weeks with pre seasons a
bit short. The other's people have got other stuff on
weddings and cricket and a few neglae injuries. But we're
making it through. So yeah, I think come come season
proper will be. Yeah, we'll have all the boots on
deck and yeah, it should be looking good.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Mc full boys all going to play and still got
another two weeks and they're back on boards. So have
you been for the playing at the barber since the
inception back in twenty twelve?
Speaker 8 (15:57):
No, I was late. I came to the than sixteen.
It was my first year, so I think this will
be my eleventh year.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
And what year did they get the premiership?
Speaker 8 (16:06):
Two n sixteen? That first year was there?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Oh you were the lucky charm.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
Oh I try to say that, but I don't think.
I don't think I was. There's a few other moving
parts and part of it.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
But yeah, So how's AJ's practices going? And they softened
out a bit from that Dollarmore Park Debarcle.
Speaker 8 (16:22):
Yeah, yeah, it was a bit more. It's a bit
more ball in hand and some skills and stuff. Yeah,
a bit less, a bit less running the house which
is good.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah, hey, get on you how do you let you
carry on?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Always appreciate your time mates and dam yeah catch up
during the footy season.
Speaker 8 (16:37):
That sounds good, cheer any quite.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Britain heldon based over near ben Moore the old ben
More Pub to be more precise around that region. This
is the Master up next with catching up Nigel Woodhead.
He's up at the Central Field Days at fielding today and.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
John's welcome back to the Master.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Niger would Head normally farms in South Totaga between bar
Cluther and Milton, but this afternoon we catch him on tour.
He is up at the Central Field Days and his
other gig Nige.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Good afternoon here afternoon and eat you well, pretty good day.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Like let's look down here in the deep South. It's
beautiful blue sky in abundance. However, I understand up there
it's not that.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
Uh no, it's pretty breezy and quite cool, but it
looks like it's a blue sky coming so hopefully.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Described fielding for people I've never been there, to be honest.
The minimum two is the area I've never really I've
never I think it might have driven through it perhaps,
but at the very most, but describe it.
Speaker 10 (17:47):
It's good, honest, but I couldn't.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
Just a smaller version of Gore really fielding. Yeah, no,
it's not a bad spot, just flowing like like you
afternoon and we got the hotel room and field holding
and yeah, it's not a bit spot up here. I
like it. It's good, good farming area. You have a
lot of dairy farms cropping and then shaving beef on
the hills with it like seattland. So things are nice
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and green up here at the moment too.
Speaker 10 (18:13):
That's for free.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Well, speaking of huge exon just before an underway Keado
where he's based near Regulan, they're pretty dry, but around
there it's obviously looking pretty deeper.
Speaker 10 (18:23):
Yeah, no, we've it. It looks really good here at
the moment.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
San the menu too, so yeah, I'm up here just
with resolution at central distance field days. So there's three
of us here for a couple of days, catching up
a few users and catching up a few sort of
hopefully potential users.
Speaker 10 (18:42):
But some paces it's good.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
So's everything looking on the farm at the moment.
Speaker 10 (18:47):
Really good?
Speaker 7 (18:48):
Yeah, yeah, things are things are hammon actually like at
things finally warmed up of it. We're actually getting a
bit of warmth in March, so the feeds hardened off
and weave it and stop.
Speaker 10 (18:58):
Seem to be doing pretty well. I think we talked
about a couple of weeks ago the whole worm things.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
I just really keeping an eye on thatt the bet
it was out yesterday morning.
Speaker 10 (19:09):
Actually taken.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Like poose samples off the fifth week the production lambs,
and yeah, ten.
Speaker 10 (19:16):
Days after we dreaped them. Then they've really picked up.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
They just look a lot rounder and square and a
lot happier. So there's obviously some worms they've been giving
them a hard time. But yeah, we'll'll be a couple
of weeks and we'll get some results back from that
drench cheek or drench teeste, and we'll make sure everything's
still working like it should.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
The key things to remember around where your family Niger's
that over the past three or four autumns has been
notoriously tough going.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
So finally it's changed for you.
Speaker 10 (19:44):
Yeah, no, we can't good.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Yeah, there's plenty of feed around, probably did. Yeah, it's
a different winge to usual, but it's just a bit
a bit of a bed or keeping control on quality.
But there's most of the farms actually.
Speaker 10 (19:58):
Looking really good.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
It's just sort of an area at the back of
ten dozen paddocks that you probably missed, missed the grazing
and start of February, and they've got gotten away out
of us a bit, so there's definitely some ruffage there
for us.
Speaker 10 (20:14):
After mating.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
So yeah, I don't think it'll be hard to keep
the animals feed in the early part of winter anyway.
The crops are looking really good as well, so.
Speaker 10 (20:24):
Hopefully we can.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
We can make the most of winter and get everything
set up for next to you nicely so.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
You're on target to get the lambs away at the
dates you want.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
Well, we were, and then I just was trying to
book in some space yesterday for draft actually and he
reckons he's got double the amount of lambs and he
had space, so you know, everyone was sort of talking
about the fact that all of a sudden, noise lambs
are going to come out of woodwork, and it sounds
like they've they've turned up, so yeah, it's we're probably
where we won't get anything to kill next week. It
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looks like it'd be the week after, but we've got
a reasonably fat number and the drafters die, so hopefully
we can get some space and Monday, Tuesday, next week's
job is to get.
Speaker 10 (21:05):
A way up and get a confirmed telly.
Speaker 7 (21:07):
So yeah, well yeah we'll we'll hak and and kill
as many as we can.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I say so, up to now, space hasn't been an issue.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
No, it hasn't been.
Speaker 10 (21:16):
You're right.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
Probably the biggest issue has just been getting stuck to do.
But yeah, all of a sudden, you know, all the
lamb is coming on board at once and all health
breaking loose. But we knew it was going to come.
And you know, there's still cleaning capacity. Will the works
will get through them, and we've got I think Dad's
dead drafted some balls this morning, so we've got balls
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going on the truck this afternoon.
Speaker 11 (21:38):
So it would be good to get rid of some.
Speaker 10 (21:41):
Too cattle.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Well, the good news for you as well as having
all that attacker they use, they have a bit of
a flush if they need it.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Yes, yeah, I'm trying to keep the us moving at
the moment. And we had them through the yards and
teen days ago and took a bottom had had a
look at them, took the bottom end off and they're
basically getting shifted all the time. Lock of more as
though there are more the lambs, keep them moving, take
the pressure off and yeah, the whole all the users
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need to come back and again next week it's another
job on the yards and get an id in Jeb
and just make sure make sure there's they're all on
track ready for the rams. So yeah, but most overall
the years are looking pretty good. So it's been a
good sort of kttle and obviously season really it's been
quite good.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Well.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Concerns to have regarding the geopolitical situation around the world
and help. It's relating to the flow un affixed in
New Zealand. We're seeing it on fuel and that are
you going to do you think there be anything else
we need to be concerned about supply chains?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Yes, what about in the farming scenes.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
That it'll be interesting just to see and pecks of it,
like you know, war tends to be followed up by
economic surgers like it was. If anything I've seen, yeah,
like if I've picked up on anything like it's all
hell break loose and then there's always there's always upside
there for someone. So I mean, the world still needs
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feed and a lot of our product, a lot of
it goes to the Middle East, but we've got a
lot of product god all around the rest of the world,
So shipping will have the fuel price will have an
impact on shipping, but provided shipping routes around the rest
of the world stay open, hopefully our product can still
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get to the rest of the world. And the world
wants what we're producing at the moment, and sounds like
they're happy, well happy enough to pay.
Speaker 10 (23:35):
What we're asking them to pay. So I don't know.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
Part of me, part of me is concerned about what
what might happen the next time month, but there's actually
a part of me that's quite themistic about the fact, well,
this might result in prices holding a bit because food
might continue to be a bit scarce. So yeah, I
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don't know if that answers you questioned, Andy, But I
think I'm actually reason they bolish about the next twelve
to eighteen months or things. As far as agriculture goes,
it sounds like some of the prices are reasonably well
backdun then depending on what happens with costs. Hopefully you
know I some prosperity. Prosperity will hang around.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Good on your Nage'll let you carry on a beautiful
field and catch up next time.
Speaker 10 (24:23):
Good Ni.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Niga Woodhead farming in South Otago, but up at the
central field days and fielding up next the team from
Beef and Lamb. And I say team, I mean a team.
We're going to see how this goes organized chaos. There's
a vanload of them on the road coming south somewhere
from Dunedin.
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This afternoon in the Beef and Lamb slot. We've got
a cast of millions. We've got a team who have
been up looking at farms as part of the Beef
and Lamb Farm focus Group. We're starting off for Andrew Walsh.
I'm not sure how this is going to go, but
there's only one way to find out. Snow, good afternoon.
Give us a bit of background. Where have you guys been.
Speaker 11 (25:17):
Yeah, well we're the with Beef and Lamb with a
one fifty group. Andy so we left. We met at
Triva of the Trout on Tuesday morning and we've been
traveling around. We're visiting five farms when we're on their
travel sort of sort of that central Otago sort of
area and traveling around. So, yeah, you've got ten of
(25:37):
us on a van at the moment getting south from Dunedin.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
See how many farms you've been visiting? Snow? What's been
the gay five?
Speaker 11 (25:45):
So when she started off at James Diggers on Tuesday
morning and had a good look around his couple of
his farms there. So yeah, very there's some very sharper
operations here as we're going around. So we're picking up
some good tips and tricks as we go and pass
on a bit of knowledge. Is whatever knowledge we can
hand on as we go.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
To ground conditions up in South Canterbury.
Speaker 11 (26:05):
How have they been fantastic up there? They've been getting
rain for they've had a ripper of a season.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Okay, how are you passing the phone on to?
Speaker 11 (26:12):
Now we'll pass it round. We were going to do
one word each and pass around the van.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
But you can please to sell what you do. I
mean this is open to interpretation. At least keep the
ball rolling.
Speaker 11 (26:22):
We'll roll on to someone and see where we end up.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Righty eight, This could go anywhere berewith right, who have
we got? How are you there?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (26:32):
Hey, you're not any his Jordy.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Here, Jordy all the big dogs. How are you, Jordy?
Speaker 6 (26:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Good?
Speaker 11 (26:37):
Thanks?
Speaker 10 (26:38):
Good, good good.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
How's the trip been?
Speaker 5 (26:40):
You know?
Speaker 11 (26:40):
Good trip covered bit of ground, but country a bit
different normally used to in southern souven Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
How long have you been involved with a hog at
one fifty group?
Speaker 11 (26:48):
This kicked off about two nineteen. We had our first
trip to the water wrapp in about twenty twenty just
for COVID. Actually, so we've covered but a ground as
a group. Twenty twenty two we went to North Canterbury
and then we're this wen beenywhere since now we've always
had this on our buck and lists too, little march
(27:10):
through Centraltaga and whatnot.
Speaker 10 (27:11):
So here we are doing it.
Speaker 12 (27:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
It's always good to have a bucket loose, especially if
the hoger group. Now tell me, when you're up in
that neck of the woods is a thinking around hog
it mating the same as down south.
Speaker 11 (27:21):
Yeah, we're on the greenest sort of places. It is
like yesterday though, I even Wilson he's sort of changed
the marinos, so it's sort of a change of tax
Then you're sort of more into a production system probably
where you know where he's fat in the lambs and
then and also getting the point all out the other side.
So it's sort of something but different to what we're
normally used, but at the same time still trying to
do a lot of meat and the heck there.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Of course I'm speaking to Jordy. E there, Raveden correspondent.
Ground conditions back home, Jordy, how have they been when
you were there?
Speaker 11 (27:49):
Either been awesome? Yeah, I can say, you know, the
autumn just keeps rolling on for us on the coast.
We can't really speak any more of the dairy farms,
not Wene Islands yet. And no, the grasses keep right
on in front of the Lamb's goings pretty.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Quick here, quite awesome, Jordy, appreciate it, mate, Pass the
phone on, he's keep the ball rolling.
Speaker 13 (28:06):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Good wan for some music in the background. Actually this
could be a bit of dear here if we're not careful, right,
Who have we got? Hello, Hayden, how are you mate?
Speaker 6 (28:17):
Good?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Worry about to you? Based.
Speaker 12 (28:20):
I'm both down at Tocao on the coast.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
No, you'll be having a decent season down there, are you, Hayden.
Speaker 12 (28:26):
You know we can't complain about the season.
Speaker 11 (28:28):
Yeh think their favorite this year?
Speaker 12 (28:30):
Yeah, maybe fuel prices.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Yeah, I hope you guys are all car pooling putting
ten twenty backs and for the for the fueld stops.
Speaker 12 (28:38):
Yeah, yeah, we've cat pulled up.
Speaker 11 (28:40):
So yeah, there's three of us came up from down.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
So, Hayden, regarding the one hog at one fifty group
for you, have you been involved for a while.
Speaker 12 (28:48):
Yeah, well I was probably one of the guys at
founders that way back in the early off a partnership,
so you know, when the guys got off the ground.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
A nice one, so you'd be pretty you'll be pretty
chuffed or proud, I should say. Is the way the
group's evolved.
Speaker 12 (29:03):
Yeah, well we've got probably suck the rate of us
that are the original guys and then edited a couple
of guys along the way.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Are you packing about who you choose or you're not
too fast? As long as people are sharing the same
passion of space.
Speaker 12 (29:15):
The initial theme was Hoggart lambing and yeah, a lot
of the people that are part of a group of
or hoogert lambing.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
So the key theme, it's fascinating the way that the
people's psychy towards hoggot lambing has changed, especially in the
last twenty twenty five years.
Speaker 12 (29:30):
Yeah, well, you know, to be profitable you need to
be leaving you hogit really and the groupers, so it's
not real opportunity there to get ay few more dollars down,
especially I pay out like this with them with the
lamb prices.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Hey, good on your Hayden. We'll pass the phone. I
appreciate your time, mate, safe travels. All right, who we
got next? This is cast to thousands quite literally. Harry
ends the song. By the way, I'm shiny, happy people.
It's happy people and vanned by the sounds of it.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
Right.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Who we got Hello?
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (30:03):
Okay, Andy Bevan hop crop here go Bevan. How are
you badly away for a Thursday?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Betting away like a northern south and farmer does?
Speaker 9 (30:12):
Yes, yes, yes, that's right.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Our ground conditions are wind inside? How have they been dry?
Speaker 9 (30:17):
Hard and fast year?
Speaker 10 (30:19):
The trackers?
Speaker 9 (30:20):
Yeah, you know we're dry. We've been dry for three
or four months ago. We're just sort of missing out
of weaving on the rain, probably one hundred and fifty
mils behind.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Yeah, it's interesting how you speak to you's saying the
same thing as well, Bevan. Regarding rainfall, I mean parts
of northern South and around Riversdale, especially like the Kuwiku
in places certainly behind where they need to be for
this time of year. But as far as your operation goes,
has it affected production too? Not too badly?
Speaker 8 (30:47):
No, not too bad?
Speaker 9 (30:48):
Are we just?
Speaker 11 (30:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (30:50):
The lands have been going going well, but we just
made a call of about three weeks ago and so
solved the last stores so we can start it see
this year and look after, look after the capital stock.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
You would have got over five backs for your stores,
did you?
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Ah?
Speaker 10 (31:08):
You had no comments, cave On.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
It's a coffee out answer. You've been to the net
cap on. No, no, no, you just just over five
backs handsome dividends. Is there is the required answer?
Speaker 14 (31:21):
Right?
Speaker 9 (31:22):
That's right, that's right on the old grendade, on this tour,
on the oldest we wait, so I'm looking after these
young all right?
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Yeah, so you're all tacked up from bed by ten
o'clock class right after a cap of coco.
Speaker 9 (31:34):
Right, not quite just to weave it after that. I'm
not far off.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
No, Hell was a casino.
Speaker 9 (31:41):
I didn't like it in there because I had my
les on.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Hey, good on your baby, keep the keep the phone passing, mate,
thanks for your time. Here we go someone else? Hello,
who we got?
Speaker 10 (32:02):
Get Andy?
Speaker 15 (32:02):
It's will Inda here.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Get a will Endy mller. How are you mate?
Speaker 10 (32:06):
Good? Thanks?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Good good will? Whereabouts you based?
Speaker 11 (32:09):
We're at Tipton, so.
Speaker 15 (32:11):
Yeah, we're probably half now from beav And I suppose,
but we were dry up until sort of the end
of January and we're probably looking as good now as
it looked looked all season. Yeah, we got good rain
intergenuary and it's looking a picture at the moment.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
That's a good way to be for autumns. You're not
far from the Canndrum Bridge.
Speaker 15 (32:30):
Then, yes, yeah, yeah, you know they must be getting
close to getting it finished.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I think, well, at the end of it, how bad
has it affected your routine having that bridge the way
it is?
Speaker 15 (32:39):
Well, not too bad, to be honest. We've been very
lucky that fell at the local engineering at Tipton has
opened up sort of a track for us to use.
Speaker 10 (32:50):
The locals.
Speaker 11 (32:50):
Yeah, it's been slody excellent.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
So how would you rate the season on a whole
compared to what you normally experienced for this time of year?
Speaker 5 (32:59):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (33:00):
Pretty good.
Speaker 15 (33:00):
Really, we can't vault it like that. The prices is
obviously the big one. Yeah, you know, we can't complain
a bit.
Speaker 10 (33:07):
Much at the moment.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Really absolutely. Okay, Hey, thanks to your time. We'll pass
me on to one more person then we'll call it quits.
Clear Sutenburg. Possibly she's driving, isn't she?
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (33:17):
Yeah, yeah, please driving.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Well, one more person will leave it at there. But
this has actually gone quite well.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
Thanks and good idea.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
One more person to go, of course, be for lend
the slot.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
We're speaking to a cast of thousands this afternoon, if
not millions, God they who have we got?
Speaker 12 (33:38):
Ready?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Yeah? Back to snow. So it's been a good trip.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Has been a good breakaway mental health break, I suppose
before the boys go out.
Speaker 11 (33:46):
Yeah, yeah, no idea, right, but that any but yeah, lot,
we have taken a lot out of it getting around,
Like obviously some of the farms are just totally different
than what we're used to Salem especially, get up in
that Middle March country and there and there. But still
some very smart operations that are going on there, and
you pick something new up everywhere you go.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
When you say that, are you're relating more of the
likes of Crossbreed Final operations?
Speaker 11 (34:12):
Yeah, yep. We've been seeing abo everything as we're going around,
to be fair, and just different different techniques with Lamb
patting drops and and options on the on how they
do things, and we've sort of been able to pass
on a bit of air knowledge as well as we
go with Hell, we've gone on with different drops, lots
of the kale and and that sort of thing, which yeah,
just helps everyone out.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Really, Does they much kale up country? Did you say?
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (34:35):
There is?
Speaker 11 (34:36):
Yep, there's there's definitely guys up there. They're putting labs
on kale as well and getting good results from it.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Hey, nice one, So no, we've better leave it there about. Hey,
thank everyone for the time, especially Bevan Hopcraft. Yeah, hopefully
not do your hang over. It sounds like a good
trip and he will catch up again in due course.
Speaker 11 (34:53):
She has a good any I think he goes us
at the perfect time. They're pretty well behaved at the moment.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
The tea from Beef and Lamb the Hog at one
fifty focus group making the away south to appreciate their time.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Clee Totenberg as well, driving so out unclear. We'll wrap
up next.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Nathan Burdon, resident sporting Guru, our resident spotting gury. Nathan
Burdon joins us this afternoon on the Muster. Nathan, good afternoon,
Good mate, how are you can't really complain on a
(35:31):
bluebird afternoon like it is? And gore today?
Speaker 2 (35:34):
So maybe summers arrived. It's just a little bit late,
a little bit late, but a bitter late than never. Eh, Yeah,
talking about a bit of late.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Vanierva who was late to the party figuring out that
the black Caps are playing the pro Tears and cricket.
Speaker 14 (35:47):
So yeah, I've definitely put my hand up for one
of those. Does feel like a little bit of a
hangover from the T twenty World Cup, doesn't it. But
for all that of actually Alloid, some of the cricket,
and for all that both both of you, the first
two games have been reasonably sort of one sided, and
(36:10):
obviously we've you know, we've been able to seek a
winning that second game. But even though I've sort of
stumbled across both games, we ended up game two because
we were going pretty well watching watching most of it,
and we're still actually playing some pretty good cricket.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
It's just that time of year where winter and summer
sports crossover. Super Rugby's four weeks some for goodness sake,
and yet we was still an international cricket happening on
the TV on the other side.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Of the telly.
Speaker 14 (36:35):
Yeah, I mean it's it happens at international level, it
happens at local level. You can you could have probably
imagined someone heading out of the driveway and turning left
instead of turning right and showing up at cricket when
they're supposed to be at rugby practice. They've got the
pads on the back instead of the rugby boots. Yeah,
it's that niggly little shoulder season, isn't it. Before we
sort of decide whether we're officially in winter and we've
(36:58):
given up on summer, or whether we're still hanging on
to the end of summer.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Now, rugby's getting underway here in the South. I think
did one sooner than later, followed by prem and the
other competitions, but as well, we've still got a couple
of weeks to go in the South of my cracket
competition in the Premier Grade on Saturday where Kerry Kerry's
playing playing Appleby. Actually it's a replay of last year's
final where Appleby won by one run. I was going
(37:24):
to say a goal went to cross over there and
the winner goes through to play in the Cargo Old
Boys the following weekend.
Speaker 14 (37:31):
Yeah, all roads lead to wait koy koy, don't they
on Saturday. I hazard a guess that that's probably the
biggest thing happening in the township this weekend. And these
two teams have had a ding dong battle. There was
that there, there was that game you mentioned from last year,
but we caught up with the Appleby captain Sam Downing
(37:52):
during the week and they've been at it this year.
There was a one wickets when earlier in the season.
There was a tie earlier in the season as well,
and then the last time out Wai Koiki actually gave
apple Be a good old a good old fashion threshing.
So that's that's left a bit of a rock under
the under the blanket for the Applebee Boys and they'll
(38:14):
be going out with out to Wai Koi Kou with
a bit of point to prove, but obviously home home
field advantage will be pretty important.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Too the Highlanders. They've got the Hurricanes tomorrow night as well.
I think you say this every week from the Landers
from now on. The need to end to stay relevant
in the competition.
Speaker 14 (38:29):
Almost they I mean, they could have easily had a
better record than their two and four record, is couldn't they?
But this is this is where they're at. They've they've
shown plenty of promise, but you know one thing that
they're going to have to get that malfunctioning line out
sorted out sooner rather than later if they want to
(38:51):
if they want to.
Speaker 10 (38:51):
Win games, they'll know that.
Speaker 14 (38:53):
It doesn't make it any easier when the likes of Labannini,
Fabian holland Mitch Dunshe. You know, they've they've had they've
had a horror run of injuries with these second rowers.
So they're gonna have to feesh in some sort of
a lineout if they want to be competitive against the
Highland of the Hurricanes and the cavalryes arrived see Ken
(39:13):
Roygard and Ruben Love coming back into the line up there,
so they'll be there'll be a challenge for sure.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Is this on Jack Taylor the throwing or is this
the fact that injuries have played a big part Because
Jack Taylor around the field, he's been outstanding this season.
Speaker 14 (39:27):
I think, yeah, I've just seen another an outstanding south
and hooker. David Halls just wanted to pass me actually
as we as we have this conversation, crazy just walking past.
But no, we can't blame it on Jeck Jack, can
we Absolutely not? With their parochial eye patch on. There's
so many moving parts, isn't there to a line out
to imagine there's there's ip around who calls these things.
(39:51):
It's the it's the period of the game and the
part of the field during the poor old bloke that
that throws it in Tim's to tends to copy it.
But but yeah, no, I'm not gonna definitely not gonna
blame it on Jack. And he's and he's he's playing
so well around the field, isn't he's having a he's
having a barnstormer of a season. So they can sort
(40:11):
this line out out Delby, they'll be.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Going, well, yeah, I'm enjoying watching him around the panic.
His aggression is there to be noted in himself and
de greet. The Southland influence certainly holding up their end.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Of the deal.
Speaker 14 (40:23):
Well, and I think you forget just how, just how,
and I want to I want to say twenty one
maybe for for Jack Taylor, just off the top of
my head, you know, for for a type Ford he's
already becoming a presence in super rugby very early in
his Highlanders career. And I know, and you know you
don't want to talk about this sort of stuff too much,
(40:45):
but there is a massive all black squad potentially heading
over to South Africa later in the year, and you know,
you'd have to imagine that Jack Taylor, if if he
can continue this super rugby form, will be will be
a big part of that conversation.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Now, the Masters isn't that far away in the golfing scenes.
This is an interesting thing about the Masters. If you
win it the year previously, you get to pick.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
The menu for the opening night.
Speaker 8 (41:10):
Is that right?
Speaker 14 (41:11):
Yeah, that's dead right. It's just one of those interesting
idiosyncrasies of a tournament that is just full of interesting idiosyncrasies.
If you love your golf, you generally love the Masters.
And I think if on any golfers bucket list, if
there was one, if there was one course around the world,
that you could play, you'd ask if you could have
(41:33):
a have a we tried around Augusta National. It just
presents itself as such a such a picture on TV. Obviously,
some of the other stuff that goes on around the
place a little bit problematic. But just if we just
focus on the golf, it's an outstanding week, and yeah,
I love that. It's actually got me thinking a little
(41:54):
bit about what my I don't think I'll ever win
the Masters, but just in case, just in case I did,
what mind what might mean you would be I don't
know if I could come up with twelve twelve different
options like Rory has.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
But you know, southern lame, definite la. So you need
a bit of petn't have to be part of it.
Speaker 14 (42:11):
When you can imagine they'd probably do the old the
old private straight out of straight out of them the
cargo and h and straight to and straight to Augusta out.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Of Tim Shevelt, Sir Tom Shevelt International Airport. Good on
your knafe, leave it, They're always got to catch up.
Speaker 14 (42:26):
A sounds good mate, Thank you, laugh.
Speaker 4 (42:29):
Out loud with ag proud because life on the land
can be a laughing matter.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
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proudly brought to you Peter's Genetics. Enjoy the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
See it to my Hey, well, I'll that s heaby
go there and what did he go on again?
Speaker 1 (43:04):
For PGG Writes and present stock selling actions that occurred
at the Charlton sale Yards this morning. Dave Morrison's on
the line to give us a rundown on prices. Get
a tagel, how do we go?
Speaker 5 (43:14):
Yeah, you're pretty good.
Speaker 13 (43:15):
I have a lovely morning, d child. Today just with
prime Lands for the reasons I theality prime Lands, and
today best of them was sort of two twenty to
two fifties is Minion Lands sort of twenty five to
one ninety ninety five just with the light.
Speaker 5 (43:31):
Of condition was smaller.
Speaker 13 (43:33):
Fray Prime leaves one fifty five seventy into the U
S section RAM section first with good heavy rabs and
thirty in thier rams sixty to seventy into the use section.
Speaker 7 (43:47):
Yeah, good, heavy youth.
Speaker 5 (43:48):
Today, very heavy use to forty to two seventy many
of them anywhere from sort of one seventy.
Speaker 10 (43:56):
Five to two hundred.
Speaker 5 (43:58):
With the light of condition us still becaus around the
sort of many way for one hundred and fifty two.
Speaker 13 (44:03):
Stall am Storlane is probably better. The best of store
lams one thirty five to one forty five, one fifty
millium sort of one fifteen to one twenty, the large
dist lab sorry around there seventy five to eighty five dollars,
and the grips up any things that I can use
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