September 18, 2025 • 43 mins
Andy Muir talks to Jamie Mackay, Kerry Allen, Phil Duncan, Mark Kelly and Alan McLeary.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, once again it's Friday, so we catch out with
Nathan Ebernethy had a regional for Giday.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Nathan Gay any what a standard is outside too? What
a different today? Makes that sure? And nice to see
blue sky is as busy around here. Plenty happening with
new cars, a lot of new vehicles going out at
the moment, which hopefully that's a sign that the economy's
ticking away pretty well. A lot of used vehicles going
out to but by jingo's a lot of US vehicles
coming in as well. So if you're thinking used vehicles,
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do give us a thought. A range of secondhand commercials
is second to none. A lot of double cabs coming through,
all brands, well side, flat deck, the whole lot. So
if you're thinking about it, certainly give us a yell
and see what we've got because just remember I've said before,
a lot of the stock that we've got on the
Guard is only a small fraction of what we've got
coming through as well. So throughout the building there is
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secondhand trucks getting groomed or work done in preparation for
the yard.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
So yeah, look good.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
There's anything we can do as far as used vehicles
or new that's for sure. All these great deals happening
there do good as a thought.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
We're here.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
There's always for five o'clock today and looking fall, do
open and the doors again at past nine in the morning.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Good only night jet next week.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
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Speaker 1 (01:13):
And good afternoon, and welcome to the muster on Hakanui
and him. You're here until two o'clock of course, thanks
to Peter Senix. Appreciate your company. Blue Sky fills around
the hills of Main Street here on Gore. We talk
with it shortly and Phil Duncan from weather Watchers on
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point three, Tenor Roh nine point eight, Winton seven point four,
at Woodland seven point nine. Jamie McKay starts us off
in the Country Crossover, followed up by Phil Duncan out
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of weather Watch Kerrie Yllen talking egrobusiness and schools. Of course,
the retraction by the government this week regarding agriculture as
a subject, so we catch up with Kerry who was
spoken to on the Muster previously, Mark Kelly of The Country,
Sport Breakfast executive producer took fort ahead of the weekend,
and then Alan McCleary in a sponsor spot for the months.
(02:47):
We have a catch up with Allen see what's been
going on. So without further ado, we start the show
with Jamie McKay. This is the Muster until two o'clock.
Thanks to Peterson DDIX, it has time for the Country Crossover.
(03:13):
We catch up with South and B Fullback the rock
star of the South and B back Line Back in
the day Jamie McKay also goes comes across as the
host of the country. Good afternoon.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
That's a low shot.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Actually, there was one player who was worse on defense
than me in the South and B back line of
nineteen eighty six. I remember it well because it was
the only year I ever got packed, and that was
my old mate Sean Value. Who knows he might even
be listening down and in Vcargo. He's a bit of
a legend in his own lunchtime, Sean. But he was very,
very very very quick, very fast winger, but not too
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flash on the tackle.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Geez, anybody would have enhanced that South and back line
on Sunday down on in the Cago. Jamie, that was
a bit of a train wreck.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Oh gee, there was a bit of sewn value Jamie
McKay defense going on there. Look at it was a
train wreck and it's heart well, I suppose it's a
bit like the All Blacks, but it's hard to reconcile
the Southland team that went up and took the shield
against what we saw about saw from County's Monaco, who
I think were always going to be a bit underrated.
(04:17):
I mean, I'm not a huge fan of Dalton, Popo
Lee he or that other big hospitality. Yeah, he's a
lazy player, but physically he's an imposing man and those two,
you know, had a big say in that game.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Looks it's just a shame.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
I mean, we're all long suffering Stags fans and we
don't expect that team to win every week. In fact,
everyone is a bit of a bonus, but we do
and just like the All Blacks Andy, we just want
our team to play with a bit of heart, not
fly the white flag.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Well, I've got Wellington tomorrow at Potty Rower. The unfortunate
thing is they.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Get all their All Blacks back yep, and some of
those All Blacks will have a thing or two to prove. Yeah,
so it is going to be tough and from what
I understand, you can correct me if I'm wrong. Haven't
we lost our number eight and second five to discipline
reaction and those two have been pretty until recent times anyhow,
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pretty outstanding contributors to the Stag's effort.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
You know.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
They certainly add a lot of physicality in that big
second five.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
What's his name?
Speaker 6 (05:25):
Yeah, okay, so he was the Auckland club player, wasn't
he Two years and you're thinking, if he's that good,
why did Auckland let him go? Well, maybe that answer
is self answering. I honestly don't know, but there's obviously
some discipline issues there. I'm sure James Wilson won't have
done what he's done lightly. It's just a bit of
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a shame, but it gives some other other guys a crack.
It's good to see the likes of Rory van Voot
back in the Stags.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Jersey Sevu Reese. Is he getting a game again this week?
Speaker 6 (05:58):
That good old digy died South, Yes, that loyal Well
he's stagged at.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
The Bonus Sevvy.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Well, to be fair, the poor barker didn't get much
of an opportunity, did he.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
All he got to do was tackle.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Yeah, but you know anyhow, Look, it is what it is,
and we can only wish them their best.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I just hope for the team.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
And their supporters and more importantly, their sponsors, they need
to try and finish the season with a bit of
a wet sal I don't think we're going to make
playoffs or anything like that, but play with a bit
of conviction and you know you don't have to win,
but you you want to go down fighting Scott Barrett
the right person to be Locke and leader of the Orbs.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Would you say you'll have a bit more of an
insight and knowledge around this.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Oh I'm a wee bit biased when it comes to
the Barretts because I know Smiley pretty well and through
the artists formerly known as Lashes, I had a wee
bit to do with all three of those Barrett boys.
We used to do golf days with them. Look, I
think the media is being too tough on Scott Barrett,
and particular because if you go back a week to
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the Eden Park or a week before last week's debarkle
to the Eden Park, and that was a magnificent victory
over South Africa. Scott Barrett was probably my man of
the match. I thought he was outstanding in the way
he led the All Blacks. Yeah, look, I honestly don't know.
I would certainly have him in my starting fifteen. There
is an argument that maybe Ardie saves more of a
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follow me leader.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
You know, Cody Taylor wasn't on the paddock, and when
I look at that All Black team Andy and it's
easy to be critical from the sideline. But I look
back to our really last great All Black side, and
that was the twenty fifteen side, the side that won
the Rugby World Cup at Twickenham. And you know you
had Ritchie and Dan and Sam White Locke and Kevin
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me Alamu and Tony Woodcock although he might not have
been in the final, and the locks of Conrad Smith
Sonny bill On there, Ben Smith. We just had a
whole lot of guys who will be regarded as All
Black greats. Karen Reid, Jerome Kaino, you name it. That
All Black side of twenty fifteen. That would have been
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half a dozen of them named in a World fifteen.
And I look at the All Black team now, who
would be named in a World fifteen? Well, Ardie would be,
Will Jordan would be?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Would he in the moment though?
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Oh yeah, I think if he was given free reign,
I think so, yeah, he's an outstanding player.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
But that might be about it.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Right, We'll talk something else of them than rugby. I
can just hear Shanelle Pariser and my conscious thing. They
talk THEMLTY rugby again, So we'll talk how about we
talk about the Alliance group. Now it all comes to well,
a little the crunch basically over the next couple of
weeks for the cooperative.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Yeah, so on my show today, I don't know whether
you would have caught up with the Sandy. I spoke
to Riley Kennedy from Business Desk, who's written a really
good peace on this, and he's just quoting Mark Reel.
The Mark Reel, Mark Win, let's get it right, and
Mark Winn says, very real, that's how the chair of
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the Alliance Group describes the threat of the process of
collapsing if the proposed deal with Dawn Meats fails. So,
as we discussed, this is really Hobson's choice. I think
for Alliance Farmer shareholders, supposedly on paper it's a good deal.
I don't know whether going from one hundred percent farm
or own cooperative to only having a thirty five percent
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stake in the company's what you call a really good deal,
but it's the only one on the table at the moment.
And we did discuss the prospect of some high profile,
well held Alliance Group shareholders maybe making a last minute
attempt to salvage the cooperative and keep it one hundred
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percent owned. But they're talking telephone book numbers here, Andy,
you know Alliance debt three hundred and fifty four hundred
million dollars. You know, two hundred million dollars of the
two hundred and fifty from Dawn Meats is going to
go straight to the bank, you know, to repay banking facilities.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
So I don't know.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
I don't know where the farmers have got a choice.
And I see on the ODT. You may not have
seen that this morning, Andy, one of your correspondents, Big
Ben Dooley's there in the stubbies as you'd expect, in
front of the tractor, and that the headline is rebate
from proposed sale and significant This is some of the
rebate and divid and the farmers will get.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
But I'm not sure there's a real alternative.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
And he's basically saying the same thing, and he would
obviously know more about it than me. It's just a
bit of a shame really that, as I said to
Riley Kennedy, are once mighty and the Alliance Group was
once a mighty meat company, has come to this.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Are you hearing of any Alliance shareholders who are refusing
to accept what it's proposed.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Though.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Most of the ones that I've talked to are saying,
we don't actually like it that much, but what's the alternative?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Alternative?
Speaker 6 (11:11):
And that's basically what Mark Winn's saying. So they vote
next month, don't they? October the twentieth, At least half
of the four thousand, five hundred shareholders have to vote,
and I'm sure they'll have no trouble getting past that threshold.
And then of those that vote, seventy five percent of
them have to vote in favor unless there's a really
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meaningful last minute deal done by some cartel of large
and significant Alliance shareholders. I see, there's no alternative, and
they're going to have to vote in favor of this
because the alternative if they vote no, is the collapse
of the country and the shares are going to be
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worth nothing.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Use the very cartel. It's hardly nacos.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
You've got to be careful how you speak in the
rural media these days, Andy as well.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
You know, absolutely you do. Jamie, Hey, look we'll leave
it there, enjoy the weekend, and Ittler's up tomorrow. We
need it.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Ah, Yeah, just you know, just go down fighting. Yeah,
I don't like it up and go the Stags.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Jamie mckaye southro b fallback from nineteen eighty six joining
us on the Country Crossover. Up next, Kyrie Ellen. We're
talking agro business and schools. That says the Muster on Hakanui.
Carrie Ellen is involved with agro business and schools now. Carrie,
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we've had her on the Muster a couple of times before.
We caught up with her at the National Field days
back in June and Hamilton. She's involved with Saint Paul's
Collegiate where agro businesses schools is very much a driving
force of the school curriculum. Now. The decision came out
earlier this week that the government is going to retract
on its original plans regarding agribusiness and it's staying on
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the curriculum now. But why it ever got to the
stage still, the mind is boggling regarding it. Really, carry
good afternoon. Now, you've had a hell of a week.
I'd imagine all the emotions will be all over the show.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
Yes, yeah, last week's announcement by the Ministry of Education
was a surprise. Yes, so we went straight from being
shocked to been angry to probably then just working out
what our plan was to see if we could lobby
to get that reversed.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Sounds like all the stages of grief, but ultimately it
shouldn't have curd shouldn't have occurred.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
No, No, it was probably a bit of lack of
consult consultation was the sector, and in particular with agribusiness
and Schools Teachers Association. It was as very surprising, and yeah,
it was pretty they couldn't just pick up the phone
and have talked to us.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Was that the biggest thing for you in this There
was no communication from the ministry.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
YEP. That was very distressing to think that while we
have been working with them on other issues, they didn't
consult with us on this issue. I do know that
we're not the only subject association for that to happen to.
There were a number of other subjects dropped in that
announcement last week and most of them haven't been consulted either.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
But for a government the cause it's so far more friendly.
The fact that they've even gotten this far is concerning.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
Yeah, it was very distressing. It shows a very lack
of understanding by the ministry about agriculture and horticultural science
and also about agribusiness. I don't think they actually understand
what we teach them, why and who are the students
that we're aiming at. So yes, it would be Yeah,
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it was very surprising that it got this.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yeah, so what was the response like from the students
at some pouls because I know this is very much
a part of the curriculum.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Yes, well, I actually didn't have time to discuss it
with them, to be perfectly honest, we were in the
middle of parent teacher interviews. So but I had been
in contact with lots of other schools around the country.
So Napier Boys with Rex Human who's the president of Harsher,
I know that he spoke to his students and they
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all started lobbying and were up in arms about it.
But I had numerous contact with lots of other teachers
around the country and ex pupils basically wondering why this
had come about.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
So it got to the point the former students were
lobbying as well to get this back in.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
Yes, yes, we've had lots of One good thing to
come out of it is we've had lots of contact
with previous students right across the country, So not just
me personally, but a lot of ag Houghton agriculture and
horticultural teachers as well as agribusiness teachers, and it's been
great to hear where those students have ended up in
what they've done in the industry.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
So it's been from right throughout the country like down
south as well where it is taught.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
Yes, yes, that's right, yep, Yeah, it's We're in one
hundred and twenty five schools last year, so yeah, right
across the country.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
So what was the biggest concern from your Angele Carey
if it was dropped from the curriculum.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
My biggest concern was that it was there as a
vocational pathway. But the majority of our students that go
through in the agribusiness program are students that not necessarily
want to go on farm, on boat, on orchard and forest.
They actually want to be down the value chain, so
from that farm gate orchard gate, from the boat right
the way through to the consumer. So these are students
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that want to have a really good understanding of the
primary industries, but are going to be lawyers, accountants, marketers,
logistics you know, and transport, et cetera getting that product
you to the market. And to our consumers, so they're
more likely to go on to tertiary education, not necessarily
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but more likely to do so. And so therefore do
need that academic pathway.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Because I remember you're talking at Fielders about all the
students involved with agri business and the likes it had
to be part of innovations of field days, and your
students were there in massive numbers as well, it has
to be said, so certainly very popular.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
Yes, that's right. Yeah, I mean that's a great thing
about the Agribusiness program is the innovations and getting them
to future proof and to think about what can you know,
what they can do to mitigate or solve some problems.
So yeah, those are the type of things that would
have just been gone if we hadn't have been in
the curriculum. And we're very supportive of the vocational pathway.
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That pathway is needed. We definitely need skills on vote
on or to on farm and forest, but that doesn't
attract everybody, so we want to make sure that we're
getting as many people, many students as we can into
the industry.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
What's the season like in the way Kato Carrie.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Currently sunny, It's been quite warm, womish and lots of rain.
So yeah, the rain can sort of stop now and
the time can come out.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
That would be great.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Are you still grummy the south on top of the
shield off you?
Speaker 7 (18:19):
Oh no, I moved on from there.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah. Time moves very quickly at the moment. Carry Ellen,
thanks very much for your time on the Master of
this afternoon.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
No problem, Thank you very much, Andy carry Ellen.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Talking about agrobuss and schools. This is a good news
story of the week in particular in which there's been
a million stories coming out about anything and everything West.
To be honest, just one of those weeks really, so
it will be in a little bit hectic. Talking hectics
the weather, Phil Duncan from weather Watch fills us in
on what's happening for the next seven days. Time to
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catch up with Phil Duncan and off weather Fell House Saints.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
I'm good made, How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Not too bad? It's been a hectic week, but it's Friday.
It doesn't mean much in the middle of September, though,
we've seen some average weather to say the least. Jordy
Yed from over Riverton, quoting two hundred and twenty mils
of rain for September so far, Are we going to
see some light at the end of the tunnel fill?
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Gosh, that is a lot of rain, and yeah, certainly
some decent downpours around over the last week. The good
news is, yeah, we do see some dryer where they're
coming in. It's not going to switch dry, but the
amount of rain that's coming true, looks a lot lower.
And so you think sort of daily rainfall totals and
you know, three millimeters and one millimeter and maybe the biggest.
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The wettest day I can see is Saturday, the twenty
eighth of September with six point one millimeters, So that's
that's better. And the temperatures they're up a little bit
in some of the daytime temperatures, but the overnight lows
are still down. And so it's to some degree a
fairly normal September, except obviously it's started off wet and cold.
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We're sort of seeing a bit more normality perhaps coming
through over the next ten days for the Southland region.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Look, so temperatures are in the six to nine range
at the moment. Are we going to see an increase
in air temperature though?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Yeah, So tonight is the coldest night probably of the
next ten days ahead, you're down to freezing tonight, there's
likely a frost tomorrow morning. Maximum temperatures over the weekend
are around about fourteen to fifteen degrees, so it's not
freezing cold. Warms up to seventeen on Monday, so that's
quite pleasant with the normally breeze, but next week it
does drop down again. Instead of the day time highs
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next week do get down to just sort of ten ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen,
That kind of rains ten to fourteen, so it's not
freezing cold. And then overnight lows apart from tonight where
it gets down to zero maybe minus one and minus
two here and there, the overnight lows over the next
week are between plus two and plus seven, so it's
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it's not freezing cold, and it's not overly wet, but
we do have showers in the forecast, and most of
the wind directions arise either northerlies or westerlies, so it's
it's a little bit better perhaps than it's been, but
we're still not quite out of the woods yet as
far as like getting some really warm, dry days apart
from Monday or maybe Sunday too, there's not really a
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lot of that coming through just yet.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Is this frost tonight or one off?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Yep, it looks like it. Like on our frost forecast
at rural weather dot co dot MZ, we've got tonight
a likely frost, you know, light winds, clear skies, and
the air temperature dropping to zero generally speaking in gore,
which means you know, surrounding areas minus one, minus two.
But yeah, bouncers back up again. In fact, Tomorrow night
the lowest six and then Monday night the lower seven.
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So it's not all bad, but there are a lot
of twos and threes on the way over the next
week as overnight temperatures, So you're getting down close to frost.
Maybe a bit of ice on the vehicles and things,
but not necessarily much in the way of a frosty
boarding all.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Of a sudden ten degrees seems like utopia based on
what we've seen, and it shouldn't be like that for
the end of September.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Yeah, it's been a colder August and September, mostly because
we've had a lot of high pressure north of New
Zealand that drives in windy westerlies, which we've certainly been
having and because you're the southern part of the country,
you get more of that southerly twist at the end
of each cold front, which is Fuedland getting, Southland getting
and so is the West Coast, not so much up
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in Canterbury and not so much in Nelson and Bilborough.
So it's the sort of the western and southern what
I would just describe as southwest New Zealand, which covers Southland,
Fiordland and the lower half of the West Coast. That's
the area that is having the most rain, the lowest temperatures,
and these big bursts of wind. There isn't a great
deal of change coming up, except we do have Karma
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days in the mix now, probably windy on Sunday that
is our next sort of windy day, and there might
be some windy weather again next weekend, but it's nothing
too alarming. I think Sunday morning is the only morning
where there is a chance of power outages around parts
of Southland. Most of that risk is actually further north
of View, up around Otago and certainly into Canterbury. On Sunday,
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they've got severe gales forecast. They've been forecast all week
so it's pretty pretty predictable. You're on the edge of that,
so it might be quite windy Saturday night or Sunday
morning or Sunday during daytime, and then that's about it.
So it's not it's not a bad forecast really, but
it's not. It's yeah, like I said, it's not your
sort of the ticket out of we have been not
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quite yet my column and Farmers Weekly, so next week,
and even there's a little column this week talking about
how for a lot of New Zealand, this is actually
closer to what we would call average. And so when
you look at the temperatures, a lot of places over
the last fifteen days or first half of September roughly
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have had temperatures that are about normal plus or minus
a little bit. Now in Southland, Otago, parts of Fjordland,
especially for Jordland, those areas have been up to two
degrees below normal, but the Southland region has been kind
of a bit of a mixture of both depends on
where you are, but it hasn't been as cold as
people might think. Now that sounds like when a politician
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during election year is telling you the economy is not as.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
Bad as you think.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
When you're struggling to pay your bills and you know, you, guys,
if it feels cold, it's probably cold. But compared to
what we've recorded over thirty years, this is a lot
closer than normal and that shows you just how much
warmer it has been in perhaps over the last decade.
So this is a lot more cat's book this year,
and that's why it's miserable. Because it's September's traditionally a
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bit of a rubbish month. It can be very settled,
we can get some very powerful highs that bring in
beautiful days. This year, those highs are north of New Zealand,
and that's why we're getting one day westerlies that are
maybe slightly mild, and then the next day it's raining
and cold, and the Southwest swing comes in where that
airflow is just coming from off the Southern Ocean that
is carrying on for a few more weeks. Over in Tasmania,
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they've got the same forecast. In fact, I'd argue living
in Tasmania would be worse at the moment than living
in the South Island from a weather point of view,
because they've just been slammed by snow events and gale
force winds almost every single day of.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
The week, so Subtiber going to brain, very good question.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
We are seeing a bit of a change in the weather, Pat, Yes,
a slight one. We're seeing some more days with normally
winds and subtropical winds now that is maybe not so
much for Southland itself, but as the whole country sort
of generally. And we're also seeing some more low pressure
zones in the Tasman Sea and that's not a bad
thing to you guys, because sometimes that can make the
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rain fall up in places like Nelson and you get
the northerly wind and it's dry. So we do see
some changes coming up, but really I don't see anything
big yet to really change the forecast pattern that we've got.
One positive is that Australia has got a ginormous high
pressure zone coming in next week that is shutting down
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or their winter stormy whether I've been having for about
two full months in a row. So I'm hoping that
we might get some effective that as we get in
towards the start of October. So ask me again next
week and I'll give you up a better answer than
the one this week.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Damn sure, I'll ask you next week Phildcin of whether
What's always appreciate your time, enjoy the weekend you two made,
have a good one. Mark Kelly is executive producer of
the Country Sport for Some Gold Sport and joins us
this afternoon on the Master to reflect back on a
(27:04):
pretty good last five days in New Zealand sport, especially
in track and field. MK. Good afternoon, straight off the bat.
Jordy Beamish doing the damage the three thousand meterles steeple
chase at the World Champs and Hamish Kerr in the
high jump. This is a good news story we need
to celebrate.
Speaker 8 (27:19):
Oh absolutely, Andy, thanks for having me on mate, it's
been That was an incredible forty eight hours for New
Zealand sport. And heading into it this event we had
only won six world titles, four of those of Dame
val Adams won for Betris Found Wiena in the discus
and Big Tom Walsh in the shop put in twenty seventeen,
and in the space of forty eight hours we picked
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up two more, and one of them was particularly historic,
with Jordie Beamish winning that first ever of New Zealand
world title on the track. All the other ones had
come in field events. And then yeah, as you mentioned
Hamish Kerr, who has now successfully done the Grand Slam
in high jump. He's got an Olympic champion and he's
got a Colm with games, he's got a World Indoor
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and he's got the Diamond League, so he's won at all.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Now you could almost give a bit of claim to
fame regarding Hamish Kurr from your day's at Auckland. Grammar
tell us about that.
Speaker 8 (28:11):
Yeah, absolutely, I think I had a massive, massive part
in his an incredible creative date. I came second on
four straight years to Hamish Kerr in the school athletics championship,
So yeah, I think when he was sort of closing
his eyes getting ready for that jump at two thirty six,
he was probably envisiting me back in the day at
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Mount Athletics Club and I think, yeah, maybe New Zealand's
would be thanking me as well.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Andy, we think I think you are behalf of the
nation Mark did you have did you have any idea
at that stage that he was going to go on
to the success.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
Well, we've never had this sort of success with a
high jumper at this level. He was always way better
than everybody else. He was he's kind of the only
person that had his high jump shoes and like her
on and all that sort of stuff and the rest
of us to say on Stubbies and be fees, but
he was always twenty centimeters better. But to go on
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and like you could maybe picture a Commwealth Games medal
or something like that. But to go World Champs, Olympic Champs,
Diamond League, to be the world's best jumper in the
last eighteen months is it's pretty awesome. And so yeah
to say I went to school them as made of
mine and still is. So yeah, I'm very proud of them.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Well, it's a Hamous cure and Jody Bemis, what does
this mean for them? Money wise? Can they put a
value on these successes.
Speaker 8 (29:31):
It's a tough one. It's more on the sponsorship opportunities
that both will get now I believe they still. I
think Hamous picked up around fifty thousand US when he
won the Diamond League Meet overall sort of title. But
there's not normally sort of a figure that gets publicly
announced to how much you pick up when you win
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world titles, and I'm sure that there's I know Hamish
is sponsored by Pomas, so there's a big marketing campaign
around that, and I think there's a whole lot of
great opportunities for New Zealand businesses to get around it.
I think a Kerr Burger, it's something like Bergerfield would
be a fantastic option.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
You heard it here. First, Hey, the NRL getting down
to the business end the Raiders Broncos first last week
was crazy, to say the least. This weekend the Bulldogs
against the Panthers and Raiders against the Sharks, Storm and
the Broncos get the week off. We're getting to the
points end of the season.
Speaker 8 (30:27):
Yeah, yeah, and there's a classic NRL there's always some
controversial controversy with the referees and the bunker and sinnbins
and whatnot. And yeah, as you mentioned that Sunday game
last week between the Raiders and the Broncos was that
was one of the sort of most dramatic and thrawling
games of any sport that you'll watch. And I know
the camera fans will be absolutely gutted by that, but
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I can see them going through and yeah, we'll see
that the other ones. For me, I think a bit
of a coin flip. But you just hate to play
the Panthers at any stage as the Warriors. Daniel was
pretty brutal to be sitting at a wet and windy
Mount Smart last week and just see the Panthers just
do what the Panthers do and just destroy us really
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in that last twenty five minutes.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
For the Panthers to win qualifying outside the top four though,
or it would be unprecedented.
Speaker 8 (31:18):
Yeah, And to win five straight titles as unbelievable as well,
and pretty tough to wrap your head around. To be
six straight Grand Finals, I believe as well. And just
the amount of players that they've lost throughout the years,
from Lowai to James Fish Harris coming to the Warriors
and that's just a name too. They pretty much lost
a whole team. But with Nathan Clary leading the ship
(31:39):
and old man I've been coaching, and you just never
ruled them out, can you?
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Jack Clary? Does he look like he's going to stay
at the Warriors for an extended period in your view?
Speaker 8 (31:49):
I'd say so. He probably played half a dozen games
of New South Wales Cup this year for the Warriors
and there is an option at seven. I'm not sure
how long, maybe look met Carf will stick around I can.
I can kind of pitching him going back to a
New South Wales club in the coming years if he
can stay healthy for a period of time. And yet
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Tanner Boyd definitely was shown that he kind of isn't
isn't the man going forward for the Warriors. So I
think here we are waiting. Apparently he is a lot
different than Nathan, but he is still only eighteen and
just quickly on that New South Wales Cup team. They're
playing in the elimination final of the New South Wales
Cup this weekend as well, they wouldn't that they book
a spot in the grand final against the I believe
(32:31):
it's all the Warrior New South Wales Cup team, so
or most Warriors team's doing very well this year.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Okay, the MPC, your beloved Steamers, they're sitting at six
on the table. The Stags are at twelve. It's been
the Annis Horribillas being southender after the highs of three
or four weeks ago with Waite Keado. But as far
as the NPC is a competition, I think it's really
delivered this year.
Speaker 8 (32:54):
Yeah, that's so, it's unbelievable. You'd be you'd hate to
be in a tipping competition or anything like that, because
you don't know the Southland's going to be the Steamers
and then they'll beat Waiketo the next week, but then
go down to X y Z and Manu two have
been awesome this week. Sayme with Northland, it's it's an
incredibly incredibly tight competition. I believe there's only five points
separating fifth to fifth to twelfth. Mathematically, everybody can still
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make the make the top eight with I only believe
in about three or four rounds left. Yes, Steamers that
up and down Yere. We had a pretty heartbreaking loss
and extra time last week to naype Hastings in a
very wet Oh yeah that's something good.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
That's all right.
Speaker 8 (33:34):
So that was a that was a tough loss. But yeah,
Palmson North four point thirty five this coming someday a
must win for the for the Steamers as well. I
believe our run homes Wellington and then way Keto, so
not easy games. But then again, like we're talking about
a team struggling Wellington defending champions right out the back
door of the competition this year and not looking like
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they're going to even make the top eight as defending Champions,
which is this testament to what this competition's like. And
for this weekend two thirteen, all that's being released to
play for their provinces as are awesome to see as well.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Is it genuine considering up in the Blues franchise about
that those teams up there not doing well this year?
Speaker 8 (34:13):
No, not at all. No, No, they're kind of they're
separate entities now. The way the NPC works is you
don't sort of have to pay for those sort of
franchise teams, if you know what I'm saying. Like there's
a lot of players that just go home. That's why
I think the Steamers have had so much success in
the well, it's continued success in the last sort of
decade because it's not like nearly two thousands, if you
(34:37):
played for Ken the Crusaders likes the likes of Scott
Robinson or Kaylen Browse, that they'd never come back and
played for the Steamers. And nowadays it's completely different and
it's just made the competition way way, way more better.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
I believe.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Good on you, Mark Kelly. Always appreciate your time up
the Stags.
Speaker 8 (34:53):
Yet then you go to bay Mate.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Mark Kelly, Executive producer of the catchy spot Breakfast. Before
we up for the week here on the Muster. Ellen
McCleary of Shearwar, New Zealand. Before we wrap up for
(35:17):
the week here on the Muster, Allan McCleary out of
sheer Wear, New Zealand, joins us. Good afternoon, Ellen. You're
not a fan of pink, so you wanted some Elvis.
So it's a little in this conversation, but it's a
remix from the year two thousand and two. Elvis versus
Jay excels good.
Speaker 9 (35:32):
How are you in?
Speaker 7 (35:33):
Good?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Not too bad. We've got a little bit of blue
sky around today.
Speaker 9 (35:36):
Hello, Loujah, it's marvelous.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
And how's it been lately anyway, mate.
Speaker 9 (35:40):
It's been good. I sort of stayed pretty close to
home at this time. Everybody's busy lemming and they don't
want me coming up conversation and no actions, sir, But yeah,
Ray still he's still really busy. There's plenty of tags
going out the door. But yeah, I just you know,
farmers are preoccupied with the lemming and they haven't got
time to be fucking around, have any are And so
(36:00):
I stay away for a month. So but that everything's
everything's going pretty good.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
The heat Wave special.
Speaker 9 (36:06):
It's it's been going. They've been going really well. We've sold,
We've sold an awful lot. And as I said last time,
that was I think mainly due to the Hoggits scanning
being so good. There's going to be a lot of
twins and triplets with the Hoggits. So that ends at
the end of September, So don't be late if you're
thinking about getting one, hoping and grab it.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Just go over the brilliance that is the heat Wave.
For those who are unaware.
Speaker 9 (36:29):
It's just the simplicity of it. Yest you know you
did it last time. You did a lot better job
describe it than I did, didn't you.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
No, I have no idea. It's a lot time moves
fast at this time and age in the media out.
Speaker 9 (36:41):
But anyway, now look the bullie of it. It is so
simple and it's there's no motives that just need a
bit of electricity to warm the warm the water in
it and at the two line feeder, so you can
have different age groups or class of stock. You can
have a few calves on one side and a few
lambs on the other. So it's yeah, there's there's not.
And it's cheap, there's no question about that. At the moment.
(37:03):
You're just under forteen hundred dollars. You can do you
can do fifty lambs comfortably or thirty calves. It's yeah,
so it's look at a it's a brilliant, brilliant piece
of I was going to say machinery, but it's not.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Well it doesn't a way because he's about the move
on it.
Speaker 9 (37:18):
Yeah, yeah, there is, but it's look at just what
I find is the farmers are those lambs that you
sort of might have ignored in the past. You'll because
you know you're bringing home and mum has to feed
them with the bottle because it always lambs with mndon.
So they get bit a bit annoyed about feeding lambs
three times a day, whereas that can to bring them
home and and that's sort of the end of it.
(37:38):
It's it is quite good. And the way things are
heading with likes of Pink and all them, the days
are just going past the lamb are we but probably
pasted it.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Aren't they? You're gonna get rid of Pinky your tags
or they stay.
Speaker 9 (37:50):
Yeah, actually hadn't gone that farm mate. I hadn't actually
thought that deeply. You've woken the tiger.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Haven't you always selling tags but talked about this last time.
The fluoride tags that are coming out, is that right?
Speaker 9 (38:04):
Yes, Yeah, we've got yeah, we've got some brighter club
ones there. The recipe is it's been causing a bit
of a headache for the for the boffins over there,
but they're getting there. So the greens worked out well,
I think blues nearly there, yes, and there's a few
others that got but it's it is. It's good that
our colors were a bit flat, but they weren't fading.
(38:25):
So yeah, the new ones, they're working on it really well.
So it'll be a big, a big push for us.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
So when are you expecting things to pick up again?
Speaker 9 (38:35):
As I say, there's plenty of tags go out in September,
but it really cranks up again in November again. It'll
really hum along and then quiets down for Christmas. But yes,
and I know never really in the boss tags. They'll
be coming on mainstream down here in November December. People
start doing the lamp, the lamp, the calf cuttings. You know,
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it's not going to slow down much of this year
at all.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
I think, do you do a lamb me beat or
anything like it yourself, or did you give that up
a while ago?
Speaker 6 (39:04):
No?
Speaker 9 (39:04):
I gave that up a long time ago. I think
I caused more trouble than the Night of her creating.
You know, Yeah, same old story in it.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Like I said, there's big burly forearms. You can carry
you two tooth under each arm, couldn't you.
Speaker 9 (39:18):
Well, I got par and doles. I had chiviots for
a long time, so ye didn't pay to They wouldn't
pay to go anywhere near them. They just bulk. So yeah,
but no, no, we'll we get a good leading percentage
out of the week block got there.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
So yeah, so tell us tell us about them. McCleary block.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
What are you?
Speaker 1 (39:34):
What's your stock unit numbers?
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Yeah, well, I've.
Speaker 9 (39:37):
Leased my farm out. So what we were running here
on the home block was about we did a lot
of grazing. So we grazed about three thousand hoggits for
the spring and summer, and and did dairy calves and
a few store lambs and a few service balls.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
So we were certain.
Speaker 9 (39:51):
Times in the year's the fences were sort of fear bulging,
but I've only got I've got three week blocks, so
I've got only got about four or five hundred years
that I play with them on the weekend, just to
just to keep me out of trouble.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Sir Ketchy out and mister, I suppose you share the
more you're south too, so that it'll be cheap hamps work.
Speaker 9 (40:07):
Oh yeah, oh no, I pay themselfs pretty well.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
It's early your morning's work for you, though.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
Isn't it.
Speaker 9 (40:15):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right, yes, yes, I forgot
to mention that now, Ellen.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
We sorry, no, you go ahead, sir.
Speaker 9 (40:24):
Oh say we've got We've still got a few trees
and that that we're doing. And that's that's just on
that too. Like I've lost a few clients this month
to carbon farming in the area just the south of
Targo alone. It's it's creeping itself everywhere, now, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
That wind we had last Saturday? You talk about trees
in South Otago and about Kluth. We've just been to
the pool driving down to the caf there was a
branch full off a tree and just waked the side
of the truck and lift a hell of a thud too.
Speaker 7 (40:51):
Man.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
That when was something else last weekend.
Speaker 9 (40:53):
Yeah, now there's been. It's actually nice today, isn't it.
But they must be getting held in winds up in
Canterbury at the moment too, in the moisture out, so
they're getting a bit nervous up there, but we're still
wet down here. It's just that coome we've had.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
But you're right, has it Canterbury been like twenty five
degrees of these howling winds or something silly?
Speaker 9 (41:12):
It's been around there, you know. I've spoke to a
few and it it's a topic I try and stay away.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
From if I care.
Speaker 9 (41:17):
But it's very hard of the farmer not to talk
about the winter in it.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
Well, it's a farmer's prerogative. Alan McCleary. Now, what's the
best way to get in touch with the team at Sharwour,
New Zealand. It's a busy time of year, but tagging
isn't too far away. How do we get in touch?
Speaker 9 (41:29):
Well, at the moment, you better ring me instead of rape,
So you ring me on two seven two three two
double four, double eight, or give a ray a ring
if you really don't want to talk to me. At
eight hundred and seven, triple nine eight nine.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Everybody, everybody always has time to talk to you Allan
McCleary of Sharwour, New Zealand. We always appreciate your time
on the muster. Mate. You enjoy the weekend and guess
what you get to listen to this?
Speaker 9 (41:52):
Oh the whole song. Top job.
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Speaker 4 (42:49):
Thank you everybody us.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Alan mcclarius sheerwound New Zealand seeing us out for the afternoon,
remembering the best of the muster of five am tomorrow morning.
My name's Andy Mulle that it has been the master
of course, saying Sir Peter Jan Yennix, enjoy the afternoon.
Go the Staggs, come on.
Well, once again it's Friday, so we catch out with
Nathan Ebernethy had a regional for Giday.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Nathan Gay any what a standard is outside too? What
a different today? Makes that sure? And nice to see
blue sky is as busy around here. Plenty happening with
new cars, a lot of new vehicles going out at
the moment, which hopefully that's a sign that the economy's
ticking away pretty well. A lot of used vehicles going
out to but by jingo's a lot of US vehicles
coming in as well. So if you're thinking used vehicles,
(00:24):
do give us a thought. A range of secondhand commercials
is second to none. A lot of double cabs coming through,
all brands, well side, flat deck, the whole lot. So
if you're thinking about it, certainly give us a yell
and see what we've got because just remember I've said before,
a lot of the stock that we've got on the
Guard is only a small fraction of what we've got
coming through as well. So throughout the building there is
(00:46):
secondhand trucks getting groomed or work done in preparation for
the yard.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
So yeah, look good.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
There's anything we can do as far as used vehicles
or new that's for sure. All these great deals happening
there do good as a thought.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
We're here.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
There's always for five o'clock today and looking fall, do
open and the doors again at past nine in the morning.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Good only night jet next week.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Thanks Andy when first place and don't support thirteen can't
take direction.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
And good afternoon, and welcome to the muster on Hakanui
and him. You're here until two o'clock of course, thanks
to Peter Senix. Appreciate your company. Blue Sky fills around
the hills of Main Street here on Gore. We talk
with it shortly and Phil Duncan from weather Watchers on
the program. But it will creek straight onto it. Plenty
to do today, Pinks the music.
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at Woodland seven point nine. Jamie McKay starts us off
in the Country Crossover, followed up by Phil Duncan out
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of weather Watch Kerrie Yllen talking egrobusiness and schools. Of course,
the retraction by the government this week regarding agriculture as
a subject, so we catch up with Kerry who was
spoken to on the Muster previously, Mark Kelly of The Country,
Sport Breakfast executive producer took fort ahead of the weekend,
and then Alan McCleary in a sponsor spot for the months.
(02:47):
We have a catch up with Allen see what's been
going on. So without further ado, we start the show
with Jamie McKay. This is the Muster until two o'clock.
Thanks to Peterson DDIX, it has time for the Country Crossover.
(03:13):
We catch up with South and B Fullback the rock
star of the South and B back Line Back in
the day Jamie McKay also goes comes across as the
host of the country. Good afternoon.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
That's a low shot.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Actually, there was one player who was worse on defense
than me in the South and B back line of
nineteen eighty six. I remember it well because it was
the only year I ever got packed, and that was
my old mate Sean Value. Who knows he might even
be listening down and in Vcargo. He's a bit of
a legend in his own lunchtime, Sean. But he was very,
very very very quick, very fast winger, but not too
(03:48):
flash on the tackle.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Geez, anybody would have enhanced that South and back line
on Sunday down on in the Cago. Jamie, that was
a bit of a train wreck.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Oh gee, there was a bit of sewn value Jamie
McKay defense going on there. Look at it was a
train wreck and it's heart well, I suppose it's a
bit like the All Blacks, but it's hard to reconcile
the Southland team that went up and took the shield
against what we saw about saw from County's Monaco, who
I think were always going to be a bit underrated.
(04:17):
I mean, I'm not a huge fan of Dalton, Popo
Lee he or that other big hospitality. Yeah, he's a
lazy player, but physically he's an imposing man and those two,
you know, had a big say in that game.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Looks it's just a shame.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
I mean, we're all long suffering Stags fans and we
don't expect that team to win every week. In fact,
everyone is a bit of a bonus, but we do
and just like the All Blacks Andy, we just want
our team to play with a bit of heart, not
fly the white flag.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Well, I've got Wellington tomorrow at Potty Rower. The unfortunate
thing is they.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Get all their All Blacks back yep, and some of
those All Blacks will have a thing or two to prove. Yeah,
so it is going to be tough and from what
I understand, you can correct me if I'm wrong. Haven't
we lost our number eight and second five to discipline
reaction and those two have been pretty until recent times anyhow,
(05:15):
pretty outstanding contributors to the Stag's effort.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
You know.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
They certainly add a lot of physicality in that big
second five.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
What's his name?
Speaker 6 (05:25):
Yeah, okay, so he was the Auckland club player, wasn't
he Two years and you're thinking, if he's that good,
why did Auckland let him go? Well, maybe that answer
is self answering. I honestly don't know, but there's obviously
some discipline issues there. I'm sure James Wilson won't have
done what he's done lightly. It's just a bit of
(05:46):
a shame, but it gives some other other guys a crack.
It's good to see the likes of Rory van Voot
back in the Stags.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Jersey Sevu Reese. Is he getting a game again this week?
Speaker 6 (05:58):
That good old digy died South, Yes, that loyal Well
he's stagged at.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
The Bonus Sevvy.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Well, to be fair, the poor barker didn't get much
of an opportunity, did he.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
All he got to do was tackle.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Yeah, but you know anyhow, Look, it is what it is,
and we can only wish them their best.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I just hope for the team.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
And their supporters and more importantly, their sponsors, they need
to try and finish the season with a bit of
a wet sal I don't think we're going to make
playoffs or anything like that, but play with a bit
of conviction and you know you don't have to win,
but you you want to go down fighting Scott Barrett
the right person to be Locke and leader of the Orbs.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Would you say you'll have a bit more of an
insight and knowledge around this.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Oh I'm a wee bit biased when it comes to
the Barretts because I know Smiley pretty well and through
the artists formerly known as Lashes, I had a wee
bit to do with all three of those Barrett boys.
We used to do golf days with them. Look, I
think the media is being too tough on Scott Barrett,
and particular because if you go back a week to
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the Eden Park or a week before last week's debarkle
to the Eden Park, and that was a magnificent victory
over South Africa. Scott Barrett was probably my man of
the match. I thought he was outstanding in the way
he led the All Blacks. Yeah, look, I honestly don't know.
I would certainly have him in my starting fifteen. There
is an argument that maybe Ardie saves more of a
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follow me leader.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
You know, Cody Taylor wasn't on the paddock, and when
I look at that All Black team Andy and it's
easy to be critical from the sideline. But I look
back to our really last great All Black side, and
that was the twenty fifteen side, the side that won
the Rugby World Cup at Twickenham. And you know you
had Ritchie and Dan and Sam White Locke and Kevin
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me Alamu and Tony Woodcock although he might not have
been in the final, and the locks of Conrad Smith
Sonny bill On there, Ben Smith. We just had a
whole lot of guys who will be regarded as All
Black greats. Karen Reid, Jerome Kaino, you name it. That
All Black side of twenty fifteen. That would have been
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half a dozen of them named in a World fifteen.
And I look at the All Black team now, who
would be named in a World fifteen? Well, Ardie would be,
Will Jordan would be?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Would he in the moment though?
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Oh yeah, I think if he was given free reign,
I think so, yeah, he's an outstanding player.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
But that might be about it.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Right, We'll talk something else of them than rugby. I
can just hear Shanelle Pariser and my conscious thing. They
talk THEMLTY rugby again, So we'll talk how about we
talk about the Alliance group. Now it all comes to well,
a little the crunch basically over the next couple of
weeks for the cooperative.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Yeah, so on my show today, I don't know whether
you would have caught up with the Sandy. I spoke
to Riley Kennedy from Business Desk, who's written a really
good peace on this, and he's just quoting Mark Reel.
The Mark Reel, Mark Win, let's get it right, and
Mark Winn says, very real, that's how the chair of
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the Alliance Group describes the threat of the process of
collapsing if the proposed deal with Dawn Meats fails. So,
as we discussed, this is really Hobson's choice. I think
for Alliance Farmer shareholders, supposedly on paper it's a good deal.
I don't know whether going from one hundred percent farm
or own cooperative to only having a thirty five percent
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stake in the company's what you call a really good deal,
but it's the only one on the table at the moment.
And we did discuss the prospect of some high profile,
well held Alliance Group shareholders maybe making a last minute
attempt to salvage the cooperative and keep it one hundred
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percent owned. But they're talking telephone book numbers here, Andy,
you know Alliance debt three hundred and fifty four hundred
million dollars. You know, two hundred million dollars of the
two hundred and fifty from Dawn Meats is going to
go straight to the bank, you know, to repay banking facilities.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
So I don't know.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
I don't know where the farmers have got a choice.
And I see on the ODT. You may not have
seen that this morning, Andy, one of your correspondents, Big
Ben Dooley's there in the stubbies as you'd expect, in
front of the tractor, and that the headline is rebate
from proposed sale and significant This is some of the
rebate and divid and the farmers will get.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
But I'm not sure there's a real alternative.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
And he's basically saying the same thing, and he would
obviously know more about it than me. It's just a
bit of a shame really that, as I said to
Riley Kennedy, are once mighty and the Alliance Group was
once a mighty meat company, has come to this.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Are you hearing of any Alliance shareholders who are refusing
to accept what it's proposed.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Though.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Most of the ones that I've talked to are saying,
we don't actually like it that much, but what's the alternative?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Alternative?
Speaker 6 (11:11):
And that's basically what Mark Winn's saying. So they vote
next month, don't they? October the twentieth, At least half
of the four thousand, five hundred shareholders have to vote,
and I'm sure they'll have no trouble getting past that threshold.
And then of those that vote, seventy five percent of
them have to vote in favor unless there's a really
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meaningful last minute deal done by some cartel of large
and significant Alliance shareholders. I see, there's no alternative, and
they're going to have to vote in favor of this
because the alternative if they vote no, is the collapse
of the country and the shares are going to be
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worth nothing.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Use the very cartel. It's hardly nacos.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
You've got to be careful how you speak in the
rural media these days, Andy as well.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
You know, absolutely you do. Jamie, Hey, look we'll leave
it there, enjoy the weekend, and Ittler's up tomorrow. We
need it.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Ah, Yeah, just you know, just go down fighting. Yeah,
I don't like it up and go the Stags.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Jamie mckaye southro b fallback from nineteen eighty six joining
us on the Country Crossover. Up next, Kyrie Ellen. We're
talking agro business and schools. That says the Muster on Hakanui.
Carrie Ellen is involved with agro business and schools now. Carrie,
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we've had her on the Muster a couple of times before.
We caught up with her at the National Field days
back in June and Hamilton. She's involved with Saint Paul's
Collegiate where agro businesses schools is very much a driving
force of the school curriculum. Now. The decision came out
earlier this week that the government is going to retract
on its original plans regarding agribusiness and it's staying on
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the curriculum now. But why it ever got to the
stage still, the mind is boggling regarding it. Really, carry
good afternoon. Now, you've had a hell of a week.
I'd imagine all the emotions will be all over the show.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
Yes, yeah, last week's announcement by the Ministry of Education
was a surprise. Yes, so we went straight from being
shocked to been angry to probably then just working out
what our plan was to see if we could lobby
to get that reversed.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Sounds like all the stages of grief, but ultimately it
shouldn't have curd shouldn't have occurred.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
No, No, it was probably a bit of lack of
consult consultation was the sector, and in particular with agribusiness
and Schools Teachers Association. It was as very surprising, and yeah,
it was pretty they couldn't just pick up the phone
and have talked to us.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Was that the biggest thing for you in this There
was no communication from the ministry.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
YEP. That was very distressing to think that while we
have been working with them on other issues, they didn't
consult with us on this issue. I do know that
we're not the only subject association for that to happen to.
There were a number of other subjects dropped in that
announcement last week and most of them haven't been consulted either.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
But for a government the cause it's so far more friendly.
The fact that they've even gotten this far is concerning.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
Yeah, it was very distressing. It shows a very lack
of understanding by the ministry about agriculture and horticultural science
and also about agribusiness. I don't think they actually understand
what we teach them, why and who are the students
that we're aiming at. So yes, it would be Yeah,
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it was very surprising that it got this.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yeah, so what was the response like from the students
at some pouls because I know this is very much
a part of the curriculum.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Yes, well, I actually didn't have time to discuss it
with them, to be perfectly honest, we were in the
middle of parent teacher interviews. So but I had been
in contact with lots of other schools around the country.
So Napier Boys with Rex Human who's the president of Harsher,
I know that he spoke to his students and they
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all started lobbying and were up in arms about it.
But I had numerous contact with lots of other teachers
around the country and ex pupils basically wondering why this
had come about.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
So it got to the point the former students were
lobbying as well to get this back in.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
Yes, yes, we've had lots of One good thing to
come out of it is we've had lots of contact
with previous students right across the country, So not just
me personally, but a lot of ag Houghton agriculture and
horticultural teachers as well as agribusiness teachers, and it's been
great to hear where those students have ended up in
what they've done in the industry.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
So it's been from right throughout the country like down
south as well where it is taught.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
Yes, yes, that's right, yep, Yeah, it's We're in one
hundred and twenty five schools last year, so yeah, right
across the country.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
So what was the biggest concern from your Angele Carey
if it was dropped from the curriculum.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
My biggest concern was that it was there as a
vocational pathway. But the majority of our students that go
through in the agribusiness program are students that not necessarily
want to go on farm, on boat, on orchard and forest.
They actually want to be down the value chain, so
from that farm gate orchard gate, from the boat right
the way through to the consumer. So these are students
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that want to have a really good understanding of the
primary industries, but are going to be lawyers, accountants, marketers,
logistics you know, and transport, et cetera getting that product
you to the market. And to our consumers, so they're
more likely to go on to tertiary education, not necessarily
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but more likely to do so. And so therefore do
need that academic pathway.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Because I remember you're talking at Fielders about all the
students involved with agri business and the likes it had
to be part of innovations of field days, and your
students were there in massive numbers as well, it has
to be said, so certainly very popular.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
Yes, that's right. Yeah, I mean that's a great thing
about the Agribusiness program is the innovations and getting them
to future proof and to think about what can you know,
what they can do to mitigate or solve some problems.
So yeah, those are the type of things that would
have just been gone if we hadn't have been in
the curriculum. And we're very supportive of the vocational pathway.
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That pathway is needed. We definitely need skills on vote
on or to on farm and forest, but that doesn't
attract everybody, so we want to make sure that we're
getting as many people, many students as we can into
the industry.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
What's the season like in the way Kato Carrie.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Currently sunny, It's been quite warm, womish and lots of rain.
So yeah, the rain can sort of stop now and
the time can come out.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
That would be great.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Are you still grummy the south on top of the
shield off you?
Speaker 7 (18:19):
Oh no, I moved on from there.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah. Time moves very quickly at the moment. Carry Ellen,
thanks very much for your time on the Master of
this afternoon.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
No problem, Thank you very much, Andy carry Ellen.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Talking about agrobuss and schools. This is a good news
story of the week in particular in which there's been
a million stories coming out about anything and everything West.
To be honest, just one of those weeks really, so
it will be in a little bit hectic. Talking hectics
the weather, Phil Duncan from weather Watch fills us in
on what's happening for the next seven days. Time to
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catch up with Phil Duncan and off weather Fell House Saints.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
I'm good made, How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Not too bad? It's been a hectic week, but it's Friday.
It doesn't mean much in the middle of September, though,
we've seen some average weather to say the least. Jordy
Yed from over Riverton, quoting two hundred and twenty mils
of rain for September so far, Are we going to
see some light at the end of the tunnel fill?
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Gosh, that is a lot of rain, and yeah, certainly
some decent downpours around over the last week. The good
news is, yeah, we do see some dryer where they're
coming in. It's not going to switch dry, but the
amount of rain that's coming true, looks a lot lower.
And so you think sort of daily rainfall totals and
you know, three millimeters and one millimeter and maybe the biggest.
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The wettest day I can see is Saturday, the twenty
eighth of September with six point one millimeters, So that's
that's better. And the temperatures they're up a little bit
in some of the daytime temperatures, but the overnight lows
are still down. And so it's to some degree a
fairly normal September, except obviously it's started off wet and cold.
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We're sort of seeing a bit more normality perhaps coming
through over the next ten days for the Southland region.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Look, so temperatures are in the six to nine range
at the moment. Are we going to see an increase
in air temperature though?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Yeah, So tonight is the coldest night probably of the
next ten days ahead, you're down to freezing tonight, there's
likely a frost tomorrow morning. Maximum temperatures over the weekend
are around about fourteen to fifteen degrees, so it's not
freezing cold. Warms up to seventeen on Monday, so that's
quite pleasant with the normally breeze, but next week it
does drop down again. Instead of the day time highs
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next week do get down to just sort of ten ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen,
That kind of rains ten to fourteen, so it's not
freezing cold. And then overnight lows apart from tonight where
it gets down to zero maybe minus one and minus
two here and there, the overnight lows over the next
week are between plus two and plus seven, so it's
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it's not freezing cold, and it's not overly wet, but
we do have showers in the forecast, and most of
the wind directions arise either northerlies or westerlies, so it's
it's a little bit better perhaps than it's been, but
we're still not quite out of the woods yet as
far as like getting some really warm, dry days apart
from Monday or maybe Sunday too, there's not really a
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lot of that coming through just yet.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Is this frost tonight or one off?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Yep, it looks like it. Like on our frost forecast
at rural weather dot co dot MZ, we've got tonight
a likely frost, you know, light winds, clear skies, and
the air temperature dropping to zero generally speaking in gore,
which means you know, surrounding areas minus one, minus two.
But yeah, bouncers back up again. In fact, Tomorrow night
the lowest six and then Monday night the lower seven.
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So it's not all bad, but there are a lot
of twos and threes on the way over the next
week as overnight temperatures, So you're getting down close to frost.
Maybe a bit of ice on the vehicles and things,
but not necessarily much in the way of a frosty
boarding all.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Of a sudden ten degrees seems like utopia based on
what we've seen, and it shouldn't be like that for
the end of September.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Yeah, it's been a colder August and September, mostly because
we've had a lot of high pressure north of New
Zealand that drives in windy westerlies, which we've certainly been
having and because you're the southern part of the country,
you get more of that southerly twist at the end
of each cold front, which is Fuedland getting, Southland getting
and so is the West Coast, not so much up
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in Canterbury and not so much in Nelson and Bilborough.
So it's the sort of the western and southern what
I would just describe as southwest New Zealand, which covers Southland,
Fiordland and the lower half of the West Coast. That's
the area that is having the most rain, the lowest temperatures,
and these big bursts of wind. There isn't a great
deal of change coming up, except we do have Karma
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days in the mix now, probably windy on Sunday that
is our next sort of windy day, and there might
be some windy weather again next weekend, but it's nothing
too alarming. I think Sunday morning is the only morning
where there is a chance of power outages around parts
of Southland. Most of that risk is actually further north
of View, up around Otago and certainly into Canterbury. On Sunday,
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they've got severe gales forecast. They've been forecast all week
so it's pretty pretty predictable. You're on the edge of that,
so it might be quite windy Saturday night or Sunday
morning or Sunday during daytime, and then that's about it.
So it's not it's not a bad forecast really, but
it's not. It's yeah, like I said, it's not your
sort of the ticket out of we have been not
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quite yet my column and Farmers Weekly, so next week,
and even there's a little column this week talking about
how for a lot of New Zealand, this is actually
closer to what we would call average. And so when
you look at the temperatures, a lot of places over
the last fifteen days or first half of September roughly
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have had temperatures that are about normal plus or minus
a little bit. Now in Southland, Otago, parts of Fjordland,
especially for Jordland, those areas have been up to two
degrees below normal, but the Southland region has been kind
of a bit of a mixture of both depends on
where you are, but it hasn't been as cold as
people might think. Now that sounds like when a politician
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during election year is telling you the economy is not as.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
Bad as you think.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
When you're struggling to pay your bills and you know, you, guys,
if it feels cold, it's probably cold. But compared to
what we've recorded over thirty years, this is a lot
closer than normal and that shows you just how much
warmer it has been in perhaps over the last decade.
So this is a lot more cat's book this year,
and that's why it's miserable. Because it's September's traditionally a
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bit of a rubbish month. It can be very settled,
we can get some very powerful highs that bring in
beautiful days. This year, those highs are north of New Zealand,
and that's why we're getting one day westerlies that are
maybe slightly mild, and then the next day it's raining
and cold, and the Southwest swing comes in where that
airflow is just coming from off the Southern Ocean that
is carrying on for a few more weeks. Over in Tasmania,
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they've got the same forecast. In fact, I'd argue living
in Tasmania would be worse at the moment than living
in the South Island from a weather point of view,
because they've just been slammed by snow events and gale
force winds almost every single day of.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
The week, so Subtiber going to brain, very good question.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
We are seeing a bit of a change in the weather, Pat, Yes,
a slight one. We're seeing some more days with normally
winds and subtropical winds now that is maybe not so
much for Southland itself, but as the whole country sort
of generally. And we're also seeing some more low pressure
zones in the Tasman Sea and that's not a bad
thing to you guys, because sometimes that can make the
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rain fall up in places like Nelson and you get
the northerly wind and it's dry. So we do see
some changes coming up, but really I don't see anything
big yet to really change the forecast pattern that we've got.
One positive is that Australia has got a ginormous high
pressure zone coming in next week that is shutting down
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or their winter stormy whether I've been having for about
two full months in a row. So I'm hoping that
we might get some effective that as we get in
towards the start of October. So ask me again next
week and I'll give you up a better answer than
the one this week.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Damn sure, I'll ask you next week Phildcin of whether
What's always appreciate your time, enjoy the weekend you two made,
have a good one. Mark Kelly is executive producer of
the Country Sport for Some Gold Sport and joins us
this afternoon on the Master to reflect back on a
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pretty good last five days in New Zealand sport, especially
in track and field. MK. Good afternoon, straight off the bat.
Jordy Beamish doing the damage the three thousand meterles steeple
chase at the World Champs and Hamish Kerr in the
high jump. This is a good news story we need
to celebrate.
Speaker 8 (27:19):
Oh absolutely, Andy, thanks for having me on mate, it's
been That was an incredible forty eight hours for New
Zealand sport. And heading into it this event we had
only won six world titles, four of those of Dame
val Adams won for Betris Found Wiena in the discus
and Big Tom Walsh in the shop put in twenty seventeen,
and in the space of forty eight hours we picked
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up two more, and one of them was particularly historic,
with Jordie Beamish winning that first ever of New Zealand
world title on the track. All the other ones had
come in field events. And then yeah, as you mentioned
Hamish Kerr, who has now successfully done the Grand Slam
in high jump. He's got an Olympic champion and he's
got a Colm with games, he's got a World Indoor
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and he's got the Diamond League, so he's won at all.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Now you could almost give a bit of claim to
fame regarding Hamish Kurr from your day's at Auckland. Grammar
tell us about that.
Speaker 8 (28:11):
Yeah, absolutely, I think I had a massive, massive part
in his an incredible creative date. I came second on
four straight years to Hamish Kerr in the school athletics championship,
So yeah, I think when he was sort of closing
his eyes getting ready for that jump at two thirty six,
he was probably envisiting me back in the day at
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Mount Athletics Club and I think, yeah, maybe New Zealand's
would be thanking me as well.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Andy, we think I think you are behalf of the
nation Mark did you have did you have any idea
at that stage that he was going to go on
to the success.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
Well, we've never had this sort of success with a
high jumper at this level. He was always way better
than everybody else. He was he's kind of the only
person that had his high jump shoes and like her
on and all that sort of stuff and the rest
of us to say on Stubbies and be fees, but
he was always twenty centimeters better. But to go on
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and like you could maybe picture a Commwealth Games medal
or something like that. But to go World Champs, Olympic Champs,
Diamond League, to be the world's best jumper in the
last eighteen months is it's pretty awesome. And so yeah
to say I went to school them as made of
mine and still is. So yeah, I'm very proud of them.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Well, it's a Hamous cure and Jody Bemis, what does
this mean for them? Money wise? Can they put a
value on these successes.
Speaker 8 (29:31):
It's a tough one. It's more on the sponsorship opportunities
that both will get now I believe they still. I
think Hamous picked up around fifty thousand US when he
won the Diamond League Meet overall sort of title. But
there's not normally sort of a figure that gets publicly
announced to how much you pick up when you win
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world titles, and I'm sure that there's I know Hamish
is sponsored by Pomas, so there's a big marketing campaign
around that, and I think there's a whole lot of
great opportunities for New Zealand businesses to get around it.
I think a Kerr Burger, it's something like Bergerfield would
be a fantastic option.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
You heard it here. First, Hey, the NRL getting down
to the business end the Raiders Broncos first last week
was crazy, to say the least. This weekend the Bulldogs
against the Panthers and Raiders against the Sharks, Storm and
the Broncos get the week off. We're getting to the
points end of the season.
Speaker 8 (30:27):
Yeah, yeah, and there's a classic NRL there's always some
controversial controversy with the referees and the bunker and sinnbins
and whatnot. And yeah, as you mentioned that Sunday game
last week between the Raiders and the Broncos was that
was one of the sort of most dramatic and thrawling
games of any sport that you'll watch. And I know
the camera fans will be absolutely gutted by that, but
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I can see them going through and yeah, we'll see
that the other ones. For me, I think a bit
of a coin flip. But you just hate to play
the Panthers at any stage as the Warriors. Daniel was
pretty brutal to be sitting at a wet and windy
Mount Smart last week and just see the Panthers just
do what the Panthers do and just destroy us really
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in that last twenty five minutes.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
For the Panthers to win qualifying outside the top four though,
or it would be unprecedented.
Speaker 8 (31:18):
Yeah, And to win five straight titles as unbelievable as well,
and pretty tough to wrap your head around. To be
six straight Grand Finals, I believe as well. And just
the amount of players that they've lost throughout the years,
from Lowai to James Fish Harris coming to the Warriors
and that's just a name too. They pretty much lost
a whole team. But with Nathan Clary leading the ship
(31:39):
and old man I've been coaching, and you just never
ruled them out, can you?
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Jack Clary? Does he look like he's going to stay
at the Warriors for an extended period in your view?
Speaker 8 (31:49):
I'd say so. He probably played half a dozen games
of New South Wales Cup this year for the Warriors
and there is an option at seven. I'm not sure
how long, maybe look met Carf will stick around I can.
I can kind of pitching him going back to a
New South Wales club in the coming years if he
can stay healthy for a period of time. And yet
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Tanner Boyd definitely was shown that he kind of isn't
isn't the man going forward for the Warriors. So I
think here we are waiting. Apparently he is a lot
different than Nathan, but he is still only eighteen and
just quickly on that New South Wales Cup team. They're
playing in the elimination final of the New South Wales
Cup this weekend as well, they wouldn't that they book
a spot in the grand final against the I believe
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it's all the Warrior New South Wales Cup team, so
or most Warriors team's doing very well this year.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Okay, the MPC, your beloved Steamers, they're sitting at six
on the table. The Stags are at twelve. It's been
the Annis Horribillas being southender after the highs of three
or four weeks ago with Waite Keado. But as far
as the NPC is a competition, I think it's really
delivered this year.
Speaker 8 (32:54):
Yeah, that's so, it's unbelievable. You'd be you'd hate to
be in a tipping competition or anything like that, because
you don't know the Southland's going to be the Steamers
and then they'll beat Waiketo the next week, but then
go down to X y Z and Manu two have
been awesome this week. Sayme with Northland, it's it's an
incredibly incredibly tight competition. I believe there's only five points
separating fifth to fifth to twelfth. Mathematically, everybody can still
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make the make the top eight with I only believe
in about three or four rounds left. Yes, Steamers that
up and down Yere. We had a pretty heartbreaking loss
and extra time last week to naype Hastings in a
very wet Oh yeah that's something good.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
That's all right.
Speaker 8 (33:34):
So that was a that was a tough loss. But yeah,
Palmson North four point thirty five this coming someday a
must win for the for the Steamers as well. I
believe our run homes Wellington and then way Keto, so
not easy games. But then again, like we're talking about
a team struggling Wellington defending champions right out the back
door of the competition this year and not looking like
(33:55):
they're going to even make the top eight as defending Champions,
which is this testament to what this competition's like. And
for this weekend two thirteen, all that's being released to
play for their provinces as are awesome to see as well.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Is it genuine considering up in the Blues franchise about
that those teams up there not doing well this year?
Speaker 8 (34:13):
No, not at all. No, No, they're kind of they're
separate entities now. The way the NPC works is you
don't sort of have to pay for those sort of
franchise teams, if you know what I'm saying. Like there's
a lot of players that just go home. That's why
I think the Steamers have had so much success in
the well, it's continued success in the last sort of
decade because it's not like nearly two thousands, if you
(34:37):
played for Ken the Crusaders likes the likes of Scott
Robinson or Kaylen Browse, that they'd never come back and
played for the Steamers. And nowadays it's completely different and
it's just made the competition way way, way more better.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
I believe.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Good on you, Mark Kelly. Always appreciate your time up
the Stags.
Speaker 8 (34:53):
Yet then you go to bay Mate.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Mark Kelly, Executive producer of the catchy spot Breakfast. Before
we up for the week here on the Muster. Ellen
McCleary of Shearwar, New Zealand. Before we wrap up for
(35:17):
the week here on the Muster, Allan McCleary out of
sheer Wear, New Zealand, joins us. Good afternoon, Ellen. You're
not a fan of pink, so you wanted some Elvis.
So it's a little in this conversation, but it's a
remix from the year two thousand and two. Elvis versus
Jay excels good.
Speaker 9 (35:32):
How are you in?
Speaker 7 (35:33):
Good?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Not too bad. We've got a little bit of blue
sky around today.
Speaker 9 (35:36):
Hello, Loujah, it's marvelous.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
And how's it been lately anyway, mate.
Speaker 9 (35:40):
It's been good. I sort of stayed pretty close to
home at this time. Everybody's busy lemming and they don't
want me coming up conversation and no actions, sir, But yeah,
Ray still he's still really busy. There's plenty of tags
going out the door. But yeah, I just you know,
farmers are preoccupied with the lemming and they haven't got
time to be fucking around, have any are And so
(36:00):
I stay away for a month. So but that everything's
everything's going pretty good.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
The heat Wave special.
Speaker 9 (36:06):
It's it's been going. They've been going really well. We've sold,
We've sold an awful lot. And as I said last time,
that was I think mainly due to the Hoggits scanning
being so good. There's going to be a lot of
twins and triplets with the Hoggits. So that ends at
the end of September, So don't be late if you're
thinking about getting one, hoping and grab it.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Just go over the brilliance that is the heat Wave.
For those who are unaware.
Speaker 9 (36:29):
It's just the simplicity of it. Yest you know you
did it last time. You did a lot better job
describe it than I did, didn't you.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
No, I have no idea. It's a lot time moves
fast at this time and age in the media out.
Speaker 9 (36:41):
But anyway, now look the bullie of it. It is so
simple and it's there's no motives that just need a
bit of electricity to warm the warm the water in
it and at the two line feeder, so you can
have different age groups or class of stock. You can
have a few calves on one side and a few
lambs on the other. So it's yeah, there's there's not.
And it's cheap, there's no question about that. At the moment.
(37:03):
You're just under forteen hundred dollars. You can do you
can do fifty lambs comfortably or thirty calves. It's yeah,
so it's look at a it's a brilliant, brilliant piece
of I was going to say machinery, but it's not.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Well it doesn't a way because he's about the move
on it.
Speaker 9 (37:18):
Yeah, yeah, there is, but it's look at just what
I find is the farmers are those lambs that you
sort of might have ignored in the past. You'll because
you know you're bringing home and mum has to feed
them with the bottle because it always lambs with mndon.
So they get bit a bit annoyed about feeding lambs
three times a day, whereas that can to bring them
home and and that's sort of the end of it.
(37:38):
It's it is quite good. And the way things are
heading with likes of Pink and all them, the days
are just going past the lamb are we but probably
pasted it.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Aren't they? You're gonna get rid of Pinky your tags
or they stay.
Speaker 9 (37:50):
Yeah, actually hadn't gone that farm mate. I hadn't actually
thought that deeply. You've woken the tiger.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Haven't you always selling tags but talked about this last time.
The fluoride tags that are coming out, is that right?
Speaker 9 (38:04):
Yes, Yeah, we've got yeah, we've got some brighter club
ones there. The recipe is it's been causing a bit
of a headache for the for the boffins over there,
but they're getting there. So the greens worked out well,
I think blues nearly there, yes, and there's a few
others that got but it's it is. It's good that
our colors were a bit flat, but they weren't fading.
(38:25):
So yeah, the new ones, they're working on it really well.
So it'll be a big, a big push for us.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
So when are you expecting things to pick up again?
Speaker 9 (38:35):
As I say, there's plenty of tags go out in September,
but it really cranks up again in November again. It'll
really hum along and then quiets down for Christmas. But yes,
and I know never really in the boss tags. They'll
be coming on mainstream down here in November December. People
start doing the lamp, the lamp, the calf cuttings. You know,
(38:57):
it's not going to slow down much of this year
at all.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
I think, do you do a lamb me beat or
anything like it yourself, or did you give that up
a while ago?
Speaker 6 (39:04):
No?
Speaker 9 (39:04):
I gave that up a long time ago. I think
I caused more trouble than the Night of her creating.
You know, Yeah, same old story in it.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Like I said, there's big burly forearms. You can carry
you two tooth under each arm, couldn't you.
Speaker 9 (39:18):
Well, I got par and doles. I had chiviots for
a long time, so ye didn't pay to They wouldn't
pay to go anywhere near them. They just bulk. So yeah,
but no, no, we'll we get a good leading percentage
out of the week block got there.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
So yeah, so tell us tell us about them. McCleary block.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
What are you?
Speaker 1 (39:34):
What's your stock unit numbers?
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Yeah, well, I've.
Speaker 9 (39:37):
Leased my farm out. So what we were running here
on the home block was about we did a lot
of grazing. So we grazed about three thousand hoggits for
the spring and summer, and and did dairy calves and
a few store lambs and a few service balls.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
So we were certain.
Speaker 9 (39:51):
Times in the year's the fences were sort of fear bulging,
but I've only got I've got three week blocks, so
I've got only got about four or five hundred years
that I play with them on the weekend, just to
just to keep me out of trouble.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Sir Ketchy out and mister, I suppose you share the
more you're south too, so that it'll be cheap hamps work.
Speaker 9 (40:07):
Oh yeah, oh no, I pay themselfs pretty well.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
It's early your morning's work for you, though.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
Isn't it.
Speaker 9 (40:15):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right, yes, yes, I forgot
to mention that now, Ellen.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
We sorry, no, you go ahead, sir.
Speaker 9 (40:24):
Oh say we've got We've still got a few trees
and that that we're doing. And that's that's just on
that too. Like I've lost a few clients this month
to carbon farming in the area just the south of
Targo alone. It's it's creeping itself everywhere, now, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
That wind we had last Saturday? You talk about trees
in South Otago and about Kluth. We've just been to
the pool driving down to the caf there was a
branch full off a tree and just waked the side
of the truck and lift a hell of a thud too.
Speaker 7 (40:51):
Man.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
That when was something else last weekend.
Speaker 9 (40:53):
Yeah, now there's been. It's actually nice today, isn't it.
But they must be getting held in winds up in
Canterbury at the moment too, in the moisture out, so
they're getting a bit nervous up there, but we're still
wet down here. It's just that coome we've had.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
But you're right, has it Canterbury been like twenty five
degrees of these howling winds or something silly?
Speaker 9 (41:12):
It's been around there, you know. I've spoke to a
few and it it's a topic I try and stay away.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
From if I care.
Speaker 9 (41:17):
But it's very hard of the farmer not to talk
about the winter in it.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
Well, it's a farmer's prerogative. Alan McCleary. Now, what's the
best way to get in touch with the team at Sharwour,
New Zealand. It's a busy time of year, but tagging
isn't too far away. How do we get in touch?
Speaker 9 (41:29):
Well, at the moment, you better ring me instead of rape,
So you ring me on two seven two three two
double four, double eight, or give a ray a ring
if you really don't want to talk to me. At
eight hundred and seven, triple nine eight nine.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Everybody, everybody always has time to talk to you Allan
McCleary of Sharwour, New Zealand. We always appreciate your time
on the muster. Mate. You enjoy the weekend and guess
what you get to listen to this?
Speaker 9 (41:52):
Oh the whole song. Top job.
Speaker 5 (41:54):
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(42:27):
instructor about it, and the instructor goes, well, you were
in fifty percent for taking it apart, fifty percent for
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you did it all with your sleeve rolled up and
with one hand through the exhaust pipe. That's something I've
never ever seen before in my career. Good on you,
al On, there is your Friday shackle. Good to have
you guys on board. And enjoy the weekend. Eh right,
(42:49):
I mate you too.
Speaker 4 (42:49):
Thank you everybody us.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Alan mcclarius sheerwound New Zealand seeing us out for the afternoon,
remembering the best of the muster of five am tomorrow morning.
My name's Andy Mulle that it has been the master
of course, saying Sir Peter Jan Yennix, enjoy the afternoon.
Go the Staggs, come on.
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