December 18, 2025 • 45 mins
Andy Muir talks to Jamie Mackay, Morgan Greene, Alan McLeary, Nigel Woodhead and Phil Duncan.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Nathan Evan Ethie of Regional Ford joins us once again,
and Nathan, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's six days away in counting.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Yeah, hard to believe. Andy, good afternoon, and Merry Christmas
to you and all the listeners. Yeah, by Jingo, it has.
It certainly has come around pretty quick. So but you know,
I think this year maybe as we get older, we
perhaps do we do things a little smarter. I think
we've had a really good month. Although it's not over yet.
We are working right up to Christmas Eve and we
are working between. But you know, I really feel this
(00:29):
year that we've sort of got everything pretty much under control.
We'd often have a lot of new vehicles on the
way and with people you know, sort of waiting on them.
We've had a lot of that stock here now and
and a lot of it's been delivered right now. So yeah,
I sort of feel, as they were all over it,
it's not too bad.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
How would you flick back on the air, I suppose, Nathan.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Oh, look, we've actually, you know, we've had a fantastic year.
And I've got to say it is it is great
to see a rural folk a little bit happier, you know,
this year and not before time. It's I know, it's
been pretty tough out there for a lot and of
course that you know, through the town. But look, our year,
Andy has actually has been pretty solid from the beginning.
It really has, I don't you know. I just think
(01:10):
a lot of the time for us, these days and
months are busy, but we just have some months that
are busier than others. So overall it's just been it's
been good. It's been steady. The staff have done a
sterling job. You know, we've got quite a big staff,
and I think, you know, like a lot of the
staff at this time of the year, it's like Christmas
or New Year is the finish line, and it's just
we've just got to get there and keep it all
(01:31):
together because I think everybody is looking forward to a
wee bit of a break, albeit that we are a
lot of us are only taking the stat days Andy.
So oh, look, I'm excited about twenty six just right now.
I'm sort of looking forward to getting twenty five finished
off and get away and just have a few a
few days with family and come back refreshed.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah. Good on.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
You know, it's always been good to catch up with
you guys, it's been a not going partnership for a
very long time now between Regional Fordham howk and now
eat Merry Christmas to you all around there and we'll
do it all the game next season, well next year.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Yeah, same to you.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Andy.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Look at has been a partnership right from the beginning
with Hakanui and it has been a fantastic one. And
thanks for everything you do and and just take the
opportunity to wish everybody a very very merry Christmas. Looking
forward to seeing your back safe and well in twenty
six and to all our customers, thank you very very
much for everything throughout the year that you do for us.
(02:26):
It's yeah, it's it's been amazing, so thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So this is Christmas.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
And what.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Good afternoon. Welcome to the muster on Hakonui. My name
is Andy Muller. The show is brought to you by
Peters Genetics. It is a Friday afternoon and a rather
damp call one in the middle of Gore.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Thanks for your company. By the way, the winner of Master.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Christmas Giveaway for yesterday, of course they're at Agri two
hundred dollars Prezzy voucher. Congratulations. Simon Jamison Simon Sunblu will
be in touch regetting that Prizzy card and straight off
the bat too. We're going to give this away during
later on in the year from Sheerwell, New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Two oilskin vests.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
There's a goodie bag there made up of a heap
of different things. He's air fresheners, there's coasters, there's you
name it, margs, coffee marks, it's all. There's a text
sharewell one word to five double O nine with your
details and we'll be sure to give that away. So
we'll play a bit of christ Christmas music today because's
got a play it at some stage.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I suppose.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Paknu's five day forecast with twin farm teffron and softext.
The proof is in the progeny teff from dot co
dot insad.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Friday afternoon brings rame of breezy sol westerlies and eleven
Saturday showers of breezy soil westerlies five and eleven. Sunday
Sunday we're like soal westerlies two and fifteen, Monday afternoon
showers of breezy easterlies ten and nineteen, and Tuesday very
similar cloudy. We're breezing north westerlies six and thirteen, so
(04:06):
two inches to hand, Clinton fifteen point four, Herriets eleven
point eight Northern South and thirteen point nine Riverton fifteen
point one, town Now fifteen point three Tittera fourteen Winter
and fourteen point three of Woodland's fourteen point eight.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Jamie McKay starts us.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Off in the Country Crossover for the final time for
the year, followed up by Morgan Green of Any Spites.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Ellen McCleary of Shearwell, New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Today's recipient will sponsor for the Mister Christmas Giveaway. Niger
Woodhead Farming in South Otago wraps up the year from
his perspective and how he's hoping things are going to
go into the twenty twenty six and Phil Duncan of
weather Watch give us a look at the forecast for
the next ten days down here in the Deep South,
soout further Ado will.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Start the yell of Jamie McKay.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
This is the muster until two o'clock means to Peters Genetics,
get texting Sheerwell all one word to five double low nine.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
With your detail. I Love Christmas Sound.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Jamie McKay, host of the country joins us and the
country crossover Billy Matt Christmas is all around Love actually
one of the goats of the Christmas movie scene, Jamie, Oh, my.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
Favorite Christmas movie. I think Love actually got a stellar cast.
And I love Billy Mack.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
He is so good. He is so good.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Great song, great choice to go out or to send
off twenty twenty five, Andy, for the last day for
the two of us. Wasn't like that when we were farmers?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
No, absolutely not normally. No, you're busy on the handpiece
and stuff.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
Well, the backpackers you used to call it, and I
don't know what we were called, the Koweka hackers. I
think was our crutching gang. And we were going flat
out on the lead into Christmas, because, as you know, Andy,
every lamb you crutch before Christmas, there's a hell of
a lot easier than the ones you crutch after Christmas
because they get a few more DAGs on them.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Your Dean rabbage Fish sharing his lambs yesterday, doing them
pre Christmas. He thought he'd give it a whirl.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Yeah, Well, it's totally I'd imagine management thing that because
you're not going to get much wool off than this
time of the year. So I suppose if you're paying crutches,
you pay them a bit more, get the feathers off them,
and away you go. Although I noted that I was
looking at the PGG Rights and Wall report this morning,
the wall market has lifted again. It's got a long
way to go. But look, in the nineteen eighties we
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were getting five dollars a kilogram for youth fleece, up
up to six dollars a kilogram. It's one stage for
Hoggard and Lamb war. You know, when you take the
hyperinflation we've had since then, we're a long way.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Off the pace.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
I'm fine to saying Andy that everything should be ten bucks.
The deer farmers mightn't agree agree with me with venison,
but even lamb, beef, milk, and wool were all ten bucks,
that would be happy days.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Is a canon. Michais are worth ten bucks.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
Probably, and I'm understanding that you're on the cage and
you want some. I don't know if they're ten bucks.
They're three thirties this year. Last year they were the
big ones. You know, what were they five hundred, five
hundred milo? Anyhow, now, look, it's a good brew. I
you know, hand on heart. I haven't had a can
of Machaiser yet. The only makais are of consumed is
(07:26):
that the christ Show. And of course at a sudden
storm shout at Nigel Woodford's, which I know you were there, Woodhead, Woodhead, Woodhead,
where'd I get Woodford?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Nigel?
Speaker 7 (07:37):
Yes, they are a good Mosman family. Indeed, hey, so
at Nigel's place, Nigel and Lean's. And that was one
of the real highlights for me in twenty twenty five,
was just the generosity of Emersons and Spades and obviously
Silver Ferm Farms and everyone who contributed to that day.
(07:58):
That day, you know, Mainland Sergeant Dan, the whole lot,
whoever was involved in all that day. But I'm just
thinking it was just a good day out for farmers.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, special shout out to Murray Kober and the Mainland
minerals shouting the chops.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
For the day. I wasn't aware of that till the
day of the event.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
No, he's been around the traps for a long time now,
Murray and you know the good company Mainland Minerals. Yeah,
he just quietly turned up and provided all the chops,
so good on him.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
It was bloody great.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Ye, he's a great sponsor of Hokkanui as well. Good
on your murray. So you look back at the year
that's been the AGG Person of the Year, it's always
a contentious issue or not contentious, but everybody's got a
different spin on it.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Yes they have, and I can't tell you mine yet,
even though I will have told it on my show
because Andy, this is a pre record and my AGG
Person of the Year is going down to the wire
quite literally to the wire. But it's all the usual suspects,
So the folks would have heard my AGG person of
the Year between twelve and one.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Who is yours?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I'm thinking of it off the spectrum here. I'm going
for Catherine Wright, who's a counselor based out of Fieldland, Basin.
She's been doing work around rural mental health. She did
a PhD regarding the effects of rural mental health and
young farming people. And she's also just put a paper
out or doing a survey recently regarding how land juice
change affixes effects rural connections. And Catherine very much has
(09:23):
been doing this work for a couple of years now
and I really like the way she goes about things.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Well, good on you, and that's a good local agg
Person of the Year as well. But I thought you
might have nominated Jeff Heaps.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Jeff Heaps, geez, you could just about me up there.
He's like less listener for the last thirty two years
of hocken New He got good on you, Jeff. He
came up there and had a yarm of myself and
Trina use today brought a few chocolate things for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Jeff. We always appreciate your feedback.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
But always getting emails. He's keeping me, he's making sure
her fingers are on the pulse.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Jamie. Oh, he's a.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
Great bloke and forth those thirty two years he's been.
We get daily emails from him. You're copied in on
those now. And he always he's always got I don't
know how much time he spends trawling than that, but
he's always digging up interesting facts and figures. Loves his music,
loves the Eagles. But he's just often a source of
information and he'll send me or you or Michelle at
(10:17):
an email and there'll be a link to some interesting
stories somewhere around the world, and it often leads to
an interview. So no Jeff You're an absolute champion bloke,
have been since day one. And yeah, we did send
him some machaiza even if you missed out, Andy, Yeah,
I know food.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Chain, right chain.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Look, Winston Peters and this talk about him going with Flavor,
if he's a change in leadership. We've talked about this before.
Is it just another media beat up or do you
think he could be something to this?
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Well, I supposedly he's making an announcement today and as
we said, because of the technical demands of getting the
Pony Express from Dunedin to Gore, this is a pre record,
so it's like nine point thirty in the morning Andy,
as we record this. My understanding is he's coming out today.
Whether it happens before this goes to her, I don't know,
(11:08):
and making a definitive statement or over the weekend about
whether he would consider going with Labor. Look if you
listen to his closing speech in Parliament, which was an
absolute cracker man oh man, that he gets stuck into
Labor and especially to party Maori and the Greens. I mean,
he hasn't got a great track record of being in government.
(11:31):
He always gets kicked out after one term. But I
like Winston and I like Shane, but I'd never forgive
him if he went with Labor, especially with Chippy, because
he said he's not going to go with Chris Sipkins.
And I will give Chris Sipkins a due here. Whether
he's sleep walking to victory, I don't know, but certainly
Labor is doing well under his leadership. I think Luxeon's
(11:53):
on the improve, he's on the rise. He had a
very good speech in Parliament as well. But Chris Hipkins
has done a very good job. It's that Petra trouncing
they got in twenty twenty three. Of keeping Labour's profile,
whether it's high or not, I don't know, but he's
kept them to the forefront. Labor's polling really well and
he personally is polling really well. There's no danger at
(12:15):
all of Chris Hipkins not being the Labor or not
leading Labor into the next election, just as there is
no danger at all despite the Chris Bishop talk of
Luxeon being rolled. It won't happen. It'll be Luson versus
Hipkins and the side players and New Zealand First and
Act versus to Party, Maury and the Greens. And I
(12:37):
think that's where the election will be won and lost.
New Zealand First and ACT are a much more creditable
coalition partner than to party may or the Greens.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, i'd agree with you on that and the other
thing too. Mark Patterson doing a lot of great work
this year. We can't underestimate what Mark's done. He's had
a pretty good twelve months. But going into woolsheds and
looking people in the eye knowing that he's gone with
the Left after everything that's gone on.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I don't think.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
Yeah, Mark Patterson would probably resign.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I agree with you.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
He's kind of a quiet achiever, Mark Patterson, and he's
doing a lot of the good rural work for New Zealand. First,
there's some good rural MPs in Parliament now. The NAT's
brought in five or six of them, including our old
mate Grant mcnational in the last election. And you think
of Mark Patterson for New Zealand first, and then you
think of Mark Cameron, who's basically on his death bed
(13:27):
waiting for a kidney transplant, the ACT guy, and Andrew
Hoggart of course, who's straight straight into Parliament as a minister,
and we rarely do and our current crop of politicians
have some really good rural farmer MPs.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Good only Jamie just before we wrap up as well.
So what is your holiday entail? Pretty much just golf
every day.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
Oh no, to drive me batty. That's why I can't retire, Andy,
I'm not good enough would drive me batty playing every day. Look,
I hope to get down to Riversdale ten to my
loved wetland and duck Pond. Got lots of trees to
fuss over. I just about know the name of every
tree down there, Andy, So I want to get down
to Riversdale. I want to tour around south and have
a look at the old dairy farming interests down there.
(14:13):
There'll be a trip to Central at some stage, and
then a wedding at Waheki Island and a bit of
time with family and twanga on the way home. But
to be perfectly honest with you, Andy, I'm a big
fan of staycationst and Eden's a wonderful city over the
Christmas break because everyone leaves it and you've got it
all to yourself. But yeah, lots of golf, most of
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it won't be much good. A few bears, a bit
of exercise and just on behalf of us here at
the Country. I'd like to wish you Andy, you've done
a great job on the Muster and all your listeners
because I know you've got heaps Merry Christmas. Are safe
and happy Christmas and a prosperous new farming here.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Good only Jamie and Beckett you guys up there in
the country always enjoyed our chats and make sure you
drop their grog off next week.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Doing my best so.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
I hope it doesn't get lost in trains.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
It Jamie McKay and the Country crossover Up next, we
catch up with Morgan Green from Northern South and Vets.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Goes the Muster's animal health segment with Nis Vets adding
value through practical advice and service, no gimmicks, no potions,
total vet care.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
It's time to catch out with Morgan Green of Northern
South and Vets, official animal health advisors to the Muster.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Morgan, good afternoon.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
How are you good afternoon?
Speaker 5 (15:38):
And I'm doing well?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Thanks?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
How are you pretty good?
Speaker 1 (15:40):
As we look outside and just looking at the drop
in temperature and it sounds like it's that way over
the next couple of days. But from a VETZ perspective,
how have we been over the past couple of weeks.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Oh, look, teams have been taken along pretty well. To
be fair, I certainly been very busy doing seeker agcounts
on lambs and people obviously want to to know what
their status is. And definitely people are checking so much
more now, which is great to see both prior to
drenching and post drenching as well. So you know, if
(16:11):
we went back a few years ago, probably people were
very much in the routine of giving a pre winning
drench and by just doing that, and probably some of
that was based on our advice at the time. You know,
if we went back probably fifteen twenty years ago, was
very very common that we were actually see collect counting
prior to drenching. And so we've sort of come around
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full circle a weabit, which is which is really good.
So people are just making more informed decisions. Yeah, I
guess sometimes some of the challenge can be around righty
for drenching, Now, when when's our next draft going to be?
You had different mobs to one mob maybe need to
be drenched and another mob doesn't, and how do we
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manage all of that? So yeah, there's always some good
conversations to be had around it and just trying to
come up with a plan that's both practical but also sensible.
So yeah, look, plenty of those conversations happening. We're into
scanning of the of heifers at the moment, and so
AI heifers that have been again doing a wee bit
of that that's been trickling in and sort of certainly
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a little bit of that, and the first few days
the next week prior to the Christmas break, doing a
little bit of phantom scanning in cows as well. We
don't really push a huge amount of that where yeah,
I guess one of the things as well, if you
do come across a cow that has been mated and
is not pregnant, now you know, what are your options
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around that, and is it actually worthwhile depending on the
individual animal trying to trying to fix that situation. So
that again, that's individual conversations around farmers there. And yeah,
once once we get into early January, we'll start into
the cow scanning in a big way, and yeah, we'll
carry on into the new year. We've sort of yeah,
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obviously some of the people will have a wee bit
of a breakover over Christmas and the New year. Over
the set days, but otherwise it's business as usual for us.
Not like you Andy, who I believe has got quite
a good breakover over the next few weeks.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
It's a company director of Morgan.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
You know, it's a very different situation to people that
are involved in farming. Yeah, from the point of view
of you kind of get a bit a bit annoyed.
And when you hear all the talk about all these
long holidays that people are able to take when when
you're slogging away, but look, it's it's it's one of
those things. And then you know, I hope most people
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can get a bit of time off and enjoy a
couple of days and yeah, I know cow still need
to be milked and not need to be shifted and
looked after and all of that, but you know, it's
just one of those things. At this time of year,
it has has to be done. All of those jobs
need to be done, and yeah, but at the same time,
the people to get a few hours where they're able
to enjoy, you know, a bit of Christmas spirit and yeah,
(18:59):
a bit of time will at some stage.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
How come in a phantom pregnancies and kettle.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Oh look reasonably common. So by a phantom pregnancy. I mean,
you know, a cow has been mated and you and
then she does not come back on heat. So there'd
very much be individual variation between farms, you know, mainly
different reasons for it. You certainly higher producing cows if
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they're not being said as well as what they possibly
should be or could be, that can be a bit
of an issue. And you know, high producing cows, it's
always a bit of a challenge this time of year
with grass quality not being quite the way it should
be at times. You know, so they they're mated, you
think they're in calf because they haven't come back, and
then they're not. So yeah, I guess I've I haven't
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looked at our exact figures on that what those numbers are,
but you know, it's always a wee bit of a
challenge at times, and as say, there are individual farm
variations there as well. But it's it's more it's a
frustrating thing.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Because fandom pregnancies are a thing in dogs as well.
We had a look a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Had that heaven.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Yeah, and that's that's more a pseudo pregnancy, which is
probably a slightly different thing in that in the hormonal
cycle of of the bitch is very very different to
the cows. The cows which just keep should keep cycling
naturally if they're not pregnant, whereas with bitches, because they
have essentially the majority of them come on heat twice
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a year, it does work a little bit differently. So
if they're if they don't, if they're not mated, sometimes
the body can be tricked into thinking they are pregnant,
and so they can produce milk, they can nest, they
can do all sorts of things like that and actually
not be pregnant. And it's kind of an evolutionary thing
where they, you know, we're the top, top bitch in
the pack. She actually had the ability to be able
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to foster some of her pups off onto some of
the other some of the other females in the pack
who are then able to look after them. And that's
kind of a revolutionary thing that has that has happened.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
So clinic holas over the holiday season, what's happening, Morgan.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Just clause for the stat days. Otherwise we're we're open
as per normal and clause for the stat days, but
there's always somebody on call. So twenty four to seven
So Riversdale clinek is two zero two five, six, three
six and ten now two four nine seven zero three nine.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Good on your Morgan Green of Videos fits. We appreciate
having you guys on board and catching up every couple
of weeks all the time. They enjoy the fist of season.
It's do it all again next year.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Yeah, no, absolutely we will. And obviously the happy Christmas
to everybody and all the best for twenty twenty six.
And yeah, have a good break yourself and and we'll catch.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Up in the new year.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Morgan Green of innis fits remembering text sheer Well All
one word sh e A s h E A w
E l L to five double nine go on the
drawd to win two oil skin vests plus a goodie
bag from Allen and team at Sheerwell, New Zealand, who
coincidentally we've chaed up. We don't chat them up, we
have a chat. Next it is the Muster Giveaway, a
(22:18):
salute to the farmers. Our final draw is with the
one and only Alan McCleary out of Sheerwell, New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Good afternoon, Allen.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
Oh, merry Christmas mate, and the one and only that
I feel quite sort of special.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Now, well, I don't know any other Allen McCleary's down
here in the south, so there may be other ones
rolling around.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Apologies of theorists.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
I think there is no no.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Hey, look, Sheerwell, New Zealand. Let's change the tech to
weave it today. Tell us about the history of Sheerwell,
New Zealand and where it started.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
Right, Well, let's start up with a Richard Webber over
in the UK that he started off as a sharer
and did a lot of different things. He came over
and each short around the Gorey area for I think
a year or two. You came over for a couple
of seasons and he had a dip dipping business net
at home and he just bought himself a farm. Eventually
(23:10):
didn't didn't particularly like the tags that he had they
kept coming out, so they designed these ones and that's
the end of the story. Really, he's just he's just
moved all around the world. It's we're in all through
the UK and Ireland and that Canada, America, Australia. Australia's
big and then us.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
We're just sare Well. In general, it's massive, aren't you guys?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Like a line of Clarkson's farm as Well's Dudley Squat Farm.
Speaker 9 (23:38):
We are but yeah, yeah, of course we are with
all the celebrities mate and.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Sounds like it.
Speaker 9 (23:43):
And the other one, what's the other the one up
in Yorkshire, the family up there they use that. Yeah,
look they've got they have got a monopoly over in
the UK by a long way.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yes, So how long have they been in New Zealand?
When did it startup over here?
Speaker 9 (23:57):
I'm not actually one hundred percent sure they'd been here
for a while, but Bobby, it's might have been ten
years and then so I've been I think I'm heading
into my seventh year. So we really got cranking. They
got serious when I started. I suppose that was when
they said, right, we've got everyone else under control, let's
go with New Zealand. So yeah, so the last seven
(24:19):
years we've really really cramped into it over here. It's
it's brilliant. We've had terrific support from from the farmers here.
It's been brilliant. So thank you very much for all that.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
As far as options for animals, you're covering all the
all the animal rangers suppose cattle, sheep, deer and.
Speaker 9 (24:34):
The likes yep, old packers there onto us. There's goats
and if you go to the UK, well you can
tag anything you can dream of if they've got to
tag for everything, mate, But you know, we're just concentrating
on the sheep and the cattle. We've got quite a
few deer clients and the old packer are now they're
official tag for the Old Packers Society. And yeah, the goats.
(24:57):
We've got a lot in the goats too, not that
there's that many goats, but so you know, we cater
for everybody.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
For you know, some train setter and lester Square might
be wearing a couple of tags and as.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
There it could be.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Nothing's off the table these days, Allen, Well.
Speaker 9 (25:13):
There's not, I think I said last time. You know,
there's there's there's a dive company that put them on
all there. They put these IDs on their all their
equipment and scan the divers on and off. And there's
a handle club you know you go to.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
The pub and go to the pub, yet they've got
the tags on them.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
Yeah, so yeah, you just never know where they're going
to pop up.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
And the great thing of sheer Well is the turnaround
regarding printing with ray.
Speaker 9 (25:40):
Yeah, look we are quick. I like to say, you know,
if you haven't got them in a week, give us
a ring. But you should have them well and truly
within a week. Unless something goes wrong with the posting.
We've got to carry on.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
No, no, you go.
Speaker 9 (25:53):
I was going to say, we've we've up our colors
too with the sheep. We I'm a wee bit. I
don't like saying this because you have the Irish here
in it. But we've got thirteen colors at the moment.
But there's another another blue, so we'll be right there.
And we've got fourteen, so we've got plenty of plenty
of colors for the sheep, and there's nine for the cattle.
We possibly might do another one yet, but it sort
(26:17):
of seems to be the be a good a good number.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
There's the key to a successful tag, I suppose, durability
and being able to see it. If you're drafting up
the race, you've just got the hunter ways driving them
up right. You want to be able to see and
see pretty quickly what you're dealing with.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
In the year.
Speaker 9 (26:33):
Yeah, yeah they are, and theos look to be farriers
were very dull finished but they didn't or we had
one problem, but we've fixed that. We've got a new orange,
but yeah, it was they have brightened up their colors,
so we've got a new yellow, a new bright green,
brighter blue on the way, and in the orange it's
a good bright orange now. So yeah, if they're coming up,
(26:55):
tearing up the race, you got to see them in
a hurry.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Haven't you now?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
The price we're giving away today on the muster, it's fantastic.
Allan two shecher Well oil skin vests plus a goodie bag.
What have we got in there? I think there's a
there might be like a coffee mug, a couple of
hats and the likes or hats with lights in the
front of them. Actually really for those early starts or
like finishes at the moment, people need to text cher
(27:19):
Well to five double oh nine to give him the drawer, Allen.
And it's a hell of a good price too. We
really appreciate you being involved.
Speaker 9 (27:26):
Oh thanks for inviting us. It was brilliant. But it's
a coffee mug. I hope you like coffee, because man,
they are a big they're a big mug.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
We mon't talk about big bugs, Allen McCleary. That's a
story for another day.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
But look, if somebody, like we say, if somebody wants
to learn more about scher, well, how do they get
in touch with you guys, Given it's a busy season,
right well, give me a.
Speaker 9 (27:46):
Tingle two three two double four, double eight, or if
you get a hold of Ray it's the eight hundred
seven triple nine eight nine and we're officially closing on
Friday for the printing. But if you get stuck or
you forgot and you need them, give us a ring.
We might be able to work something out for you
over the Christmas period.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
So you guys are shutting up shot today, But if
you need some printing done, get in touch and we'll
see what we can.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
You'll see what you can do for the customer, right well.
Speaker 9 (28:14):
We will, we will, and we'll thank you everybody. It's
been been a pleasure working with you. And we'll have
a merry Christmas and a safe one and we'll see
you in the new year. Andy'll lit me good.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Only Allen always got to catch up with the team
from Sheerwour, New Zealand, So get texting in Sheerwell to
five double oh nine two oil skin vests plus a
sheer Well goodie bag. We're going to draw these before
the end of the show Today. Alan McClary is shrew
our New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
You enjoy the fist of season, you too.
Speaker 9 (28:42):
Andy, Merry Christmas, everybody.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Christmas Us, that says the Master on Hakanui. You remember
and get those entries in sheer out of I have
double O nine with your details thanks to Allen McCleary
and the team, A couple of oils con vests to
give away and some other Sheerwell goodies.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
We're going to draw that before the end of the hour.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
As we catch up once again with Nigel Woodhead farming
in South Otago between Balcluther and Milton.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Good afternoon, Nige.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
A bit of rain, Yeah afternoon, Andy, afternoon listeners. Yep,
there's raining steadily so I don't know if you can
hear in the background, but I'm hiding in my workshop
today because it's obviously Yeah, Wen the weave at Chili,
so getting some workshop jobs done.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
Yeah, good opportunity to get there, some of them tidied up.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
You'll be laughing this rain up on imagine.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
I loving it, loving it? Yeah, well I think I
tipped out twelve this morning or somewhere thereabouts, which takes
us to fifty odd for the week. Yep, fifty odd meals.
So yeah, we took a long life. I think I
said to someone last night. We had some thunderstorms a
couple of days ago, and my parents are only five
(29:59):
minutes away. They got thirty mills at about half an hour,
so I think by yesterday morning my parents had had
seventy odd meals. So yeah, the odd thunderstorms gave a
few people with an extra weir drink as well.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
We got that on Wednesday night here and gore but
very localized about thirty mills in no time. The drains
got and compete, and there was hail fully at the
same time.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
It was actually pretty surreal to watch.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Yeah, well I just happened. We were actually doing to
having our FAP audit, and I went for a drive
with the auditor, and you could see all the hills
around us were white with snow, not snow with hail. Sorry,
and we had just been sort of raining steadily here.
But you know, we've got neighbors with young grass washed
out and bits and pieces. There's a few crop peeddiccks
(30:45):
and young grass paddocks with runs on them around the place,
which is a shame. But yeah, we sort of we
got some rain out of it, but we missed all
the damage, which was good for us. But it's that
time of year, November December, you can get thunder storms,
so we'll take the moisture.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
So what are you looking at? What are you doing
farm wise? And the lead up for the next week
before the Santa Claus occurs.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
I basically just got I drinched a couple of mobs
yesterday of lambs, and I've got probably yeah, four bobs
still to go, so you two thirds of the lambs
still to drink, which is only if I get my
a energy. It's only one decent day, so I'll probably
split split it over Saturday Sunday or Sunday Monday or something.
(31:31):
Just to take the pressure off. I'll get out this
afternoon and get some some of the mobs mustered up
the out of gullies and things, just push them a
bit closer to the house, just to take the pressure off.
So yeah, just these jobs to be done, but try
not make it, try not stress out too much.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
So as the time of year about now, you normally
take a look back in the year and think, yeah,
another year down, done and dusted, and look at your
goals if your goal sitting, and just be satisfied before.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
You're at Yeah, I think yeah, Like as farmers, we
tend to think about things in the farming year, right,
which is sort of winter, the winter. Yeah, obviously the
previous financial year and get finished in this past winter
wasn't too bad. But yeah, like it's it's sort of
(32:19):
all positive at the moment. We killed lambs last week
one hundred and eighty odd dollars killed some news one
hundred and sixty odds, so it's yeah, it's fantastic. It's
was sort of there's going to be a bit more
money floating around the industry and around the local communities
economies in the autumn once and cash comes in.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Well, you've had worse.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
It's good to see.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
You would have had worse lamb sheets.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Let to be honest, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I think
I've probably only ever had one better lamb sheet, and
that was a hand for hogits I killed in the
spring this year. So yeah, we'll take it. And like
they weren't juj are only sixteen point eight, But your
relative to the number of years we've got now there'll
be our best winning draft and year to use the user. Really,
(33:08):
I think they're twenty seven seven kilos or something, which
isn't all bad. You know, the old the old tarps
don't know us much now, so that's yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
So when you're look at heead into twenty twenty six,
what are you thinking with your farming leans on?
Speaker 4 (33:27):
For me, it's about you know, making the most of
a good of some good prices and a good season
hopefully coming around the corner. You know, we were lack
getting some of the summer cropping and there's sort of
been two strikes because it was a bit dry. We've
got but we've got heat to you know, twenty heat
years of summer cropping. So yeah, it's sort of a
(33:48):
for us for the next six weeks is get get through,
make sure lambs are in good heart and you're growing
as much as they came. But really to put as
many lambs as we can on the summer crop and
and put as much weight on them as we can
and then start putting weight on news ready for next year. Really,
you know, one thing, my man's always sort of seed
(34:09):
as you get to weaning, and you know, nine percent
of this year's profits already set. You know, it's set
by how many lambs you weaned. You can put a
few extra kilos on, but it's just just bonus really.
But the biggest impact you can have for your future
is put weight on news now ready for next season.
So obviously focus on lambs and finishing some lambs this
(34:29):
year to make the most of good schedules, but also
put as much weight as we can on news getting ready.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
For next year.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
And then you know, once once I've killed a few
lambs and got a medication the bank account, and then
we'll sort of start thinking about where we can where
some of that capital gets gets allocated, and what we're
going to do, whether it's more development or replace some gear,
or payoff death or all of the above. Yeah, So
(34:57):
it's just make the most of a good season and
try and get as much benefit out of a out
of a reasonable year as we can.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Good on your Nige, Thanks for your contributions on the
Muster and twenty twenty five yourself yet and the family,
have a great holiday season. We'll catch up. We've really
appreciated your thoughts on the Muster this year.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
No I know are same to you and Shannon the
boys and and all the listeners out there. Hope, I
hope he runs. I will set it up for a
reasonable Christmas and yeah, hazybole to get some time off
and spend time with some sort of family and friends,
because you know it's a busy time year. But at
the same time it's important to to be able to
(35:40):
have a breeder and reflect on the previous year, like
you say, and set it up ready for the new one.
So all the beast he run in Mary Christmas, we'll
see in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Six Niger Ondhead Farming in south of Tigo between bout
Cluther and Milton. Your very last chance to get your
name into the drawer for the Muster Christmas giveaway thanks
to Shearwell New Zealand two oilskin vests plus some goodies
as well. Takes Sheerwell to five double A nine with
(36:10):
your details and we'll draw that before the end of
the hour. Phil Duncan from weather Watch wraps the Muster
for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
He's up next shoeishs Chris.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Good Bye, many covers.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
And for the very last time in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
This catch up with Phil Duncan out of weather Watch.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Good afternoon, Phil Duncan.
Speaker 8 (36:58):
God, how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Pretty good?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
But I'll tell you what it looks like. We've got
some rain on the forecast down here in the South
a high of like ten or eleven today, and it
looks as though we've got this for the next seven
days or so.
Speaker 5 (37:11):
Do you know what.
Speaker 8 (37:11):
I look at the rain radar that was across this morning.
It's probably one of the more widespread rain events that
I've seen around Southland than a while. It's solid rain,
if you want.
Speaker 5 (37:21):
To call it that.
Speaker 8 (37:22):
And a cold day, yeah, like going for a maximum
of eleven and overnight low of five. And believe it
or not, as we go into Sunday night Monday morning,
when the clear, clearest skies come in and the winds
fade out more, there's a real chance we can have
a frost on either Sunday morning or Monday morning and
overnight low on Sunday nights down to two degrees in Gore,
(37:45):
which is definitely in the frost territory. So it's not
a high chance of a frost because it's possibly just
the ground's so warm now, but it is definitely going
to be a colder weekend, what I would describe as
a wintry weekend. It warms up on Monday to nineteen
or twenty degrees. Tuesday, you definitely should be around twenty
(38:05):
twenty one or so. But then the next cold front
arrives on Christmas Eve, and then unfortunately, it looks as
though we're going to be stuck with low pressure and
colder air flows as we go into Boxing Day and
next weekend, where I'm seeing maximum temperatures next Friday, next Saturday,
next Sunday of only fourteen degrees and overnight lows of
(38:26):
just six or seven. So it's an especially cold run
of weather coming into Southland, f j Audland and Otago
and even maybe parts of Westland.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Are we going like this right through into a New
Year's Eve? Would you say?
Speaker 8 (38:38):
I don't think so. In fact, I was looking at
the weather maps before, and there's a lot of the
weather maps are messy at the moment. So when you
go out more than five days, you'll see a low,
and then the next day when you look at that
same low again, it's changed shape and it's moved areas,
and so it's changed the forecast. But we are seeing
a lot of low pressure south of the country. There
(38:59):
may be some high pressure coming in around the end
of the year, but at the same time, the tropics
could be waking up and producing stuff. So we've got
we're monitoring this summer, not just December, but I think
the whole summer. We're watching tropical lows that could come
our way, and we're watching the Southern Ocean be stormy,
and I think, obviously for you guys, the Southern Ocean
(39:20):
is the main driving force of the weather, which means
westerlies and southwesterlies are probably going to be off and
on for a little bit longer. But yeah, it looks
like a cold end to twenty twenty five. I'm sad
to report because you guys have had a bit of
a colder, bleaker kind of end of the year, more
so than other parts of New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
So what are we going to see for the continuation
of summer?
Speaker 1 (39:41):
As you gaze into your crystal ball, which you don't
like to do, but we've always talked about the seasons
being three weeks behind where they probably normally are.
Speaker 8 (39:49):
Well, I think this year it's probably not so much
about the season being behind it's more about the fact
that the Southern Ocean is very stormy and so that
is driving what this sort of late spring weather pattern.
The longest range where the map I can go to
today goes out to lunchtime January the third, so that Saturday,
January the third, and it's like this is not locked in,
(40:10):
but it explains exactly where we're going this summer. So
there are on this map which like I say, could change.
There are two low pressure zones north of New Zealand,
one directly north of the North Island, the other one
near New Caledonia, so both of those would be worth monitoring.
There is a stormy low east of the Channam Island,
so that's moving away from us. But there is another
low pressure zone which means all to the north of
(40:32):
New Zealand and all to the east of New Zealand
there's lows. And in south of the country there is
a storm and I mean well south over the Southern Ocean,
closer to Antarctica than southwest. But the air pressure for
that is nine fifty eight. That's a proper storm. And
then you've got high pressure smackdang over New Zealand bringing
west to northwest winds which would be warm and dry
and sunny to Southland. But that were the map that
(40:55):
I'm looking at, Like I say, not locked in. But
what it shows you is low pressure north of the
country that I've got to keep an eye on as
a weather forecaster, and storm south of the country that
I've got to keep an eye on, especially for you guys.
And then these high pressure zone coming out of Australia,
they're the ones that will block and keep away these lows.
So when those HIGs aren't over us, we're probably going
(41:16):
to get either a tropical low coming down or a
southern Ocean cold front coming up. That's kind of the recipe.
There's a lot of energy being pushed into us from
the north and the south. Those high pressure zones this
year are going to be more critical than maybe in
other summers when we don't have quite so many low
pressure zones trying to zone into us.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
I'm looking at Hobart's forecasts for the next seven days.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Now.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
You talk more often than not about our weather being
very similar to Tasmania.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
They've got highs of.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Fifteen twenty two, nineteen, eighteen, thirteen, fourteen and late teen's
early twenties.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Very similar to what we're experiencing.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
So as a fair to correlate the Tasmanian we're the
cycle of Southland.
Speaker 8 (41:56):
One hundred percent, and in fact even even Victoria, because
Melbourne has had a similar run. The only difference is
Victoria can get a northerly wind and you know, one
day at seventeen degrees and the next day it's forty two.
That doesn't happen in Southland.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
Maybe in the woolshed, but not certainly not today.
Speaker 8 (42:14):
That's right, that's right. You need a real northwester cranking
out of Australia to get to forty degrees in New Zealand,
and that pretty much only happens in Canterbury, although Central
Otago gets pretty close to it as well. But yeah,
that's the weather that goes on in the southeast corner
of Australia. So basically Victoria, Tasmania, especially Tasy though, yeah,
we share similar weather patterns, and especially the lower half
(42:35):
of the South Island this past spring. But Tasmania has
had a worse run of weather than Southland has had.
So I say that to make you feel better about everything.
But yeah, they've had a really, really bleak spring, it
has been much colder. They've had more wintry outbreaks, they've
had more snow on the mountains than we've had. But
we're making up for that over this current week and
(42:58):
weekend and next week as well. We're playing a better
catch up now with the cold changes coming through, mostly
for the South Island, but even all of New Zealand
will get this cold change coming in tonight and tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
So what you're telling me is a new slogan for Southland.
We're like Tasmania, but without the snakes.
Speaker 8 (43:13):
Yeah, and without all the other poisonous stuff.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
And the Australians and the accent and the oh.
Speaker 8 (43:20):
You know, you don't got your own accent, so yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
When we got the r thing going on, Phil, hey,
we'll leave it there. Thank you very much for your
time on the show. We get a lot of great
feedback regarding weather Watch and what you're doing. Enjoy the
fist of season and it's doing all again next year.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
We really appreciate your time on the muster. Phil Duncan,
thank you.
Speaker 8 (43:37):
Jamie Jamie got there's a flip. Thank you and you
appreciate it like I really do appreciate the support you
give me. I love your audience. I get comments from them.
They write to my YouTube page and the weather watch
site from time to time. So Merry Christmas to everyone listening,
have a great summer, and don't shoot the weather man
like I'm only the messenger. I'm not making the weather.
(44:00):
I think they're going to roll in a high presser.
I'll try and find some high pressure for you.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
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Speaker 2 (45:20):
We'll leave it there. My name's Andy Muir.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
This has been the Muster on Hakanui thanks to Peter's
Genetics twenty twenty five edition, Merry Christmas
Nathan Evan Ethie of Regional Ford joins us once again,
and Nathan, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's six days away in counting.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Yeah, hard to believe. Andy, good afternoon, and Merry Christmas
to you and all the listeners. Yeah, by Jingo, it has.
It certainly has come around pretty quick. So but you know,
I think this year maybe as we get older, we
perhaps do we do things a little smarter. I think
we've had a really good month. Although it's not over yet.
We are working right up to Christmas Eve and we
are working between. But you know, I really feel this
(00:29):
year that we've sort of got everything pretty much under control.
We'd often have a lot of new vehicles on the
way and with people you know, sort of waiting on them.
We've had a lot of that stock here now and
and a lot of it's been delivered right now. So yeah,
I sort of feel, as they were all over it,
it's not too bad.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
How would you flick back on the air, I suppose, Nathan.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Oh, look, we've actually, you know, we've had a fantastic year.
And I've got to say it is it is great
to see a rural folk a little bit happier, you know,
this year and not before time. It's I know, it's
been pretty tough out there for a lot and of
course that you know, through the town. But look, our year,
Andy has actually has been pretty solid from the beginning.
It really has, I don't you know. I just think
(01:10):
a lot of the time for us, these days and
months are busy, but we just have some months that
are busier than others. So overall it's just been it's
been good. It's been steady. The staff have done a
sterling job. You know, we've got quite a big staff,
and I think, you know, like a lot of the
staff at this time of the year, it's like Christmas
or New Year is the finish line, and it's just
we've just got to get there and keep it all
(01:31):
together because I think everybody is looking forward to a
wee bit of a break, albeit that we are a
lot of us are only taking the stat days Andy.
So oh, look, I'm excited about twenty six just right now.
I'm sort of looking forward to getting twenty five finished
off and get away and just have a few a
few days with family and come back refreshed.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah. Good on.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
You know, it's always been good to catch up with
you guys, it's been a not going partnership for a
very long time now between Regional Fordham howk and now
eat Merry Christmas to you all around there and we'll
do it all the game next season, well next year.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Yeah, same to you.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Andy.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Look at has been a partnership right from the beginning
with Hakanui and it has been a fantastic one. And
thanks for everything you do and and just take the
opportunity to wish everybody a very very merry Christmas. Looking
forward to seeing your back safe and well in twenty
six and to all our customers, thank you very very
much for everything throughout the year that you do for us.
(02:26):
It's yeah, it's it's been amazing, so thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So this is Christmas.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
And what.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Good afternoon. Welcome to the muster on Hakonui. My name
is Andy Muller. The show is brought to you by
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Speaker 2 (02:49):
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Speaker 1 (02:53):
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Speaker 2 (03:11):
Two oilskin vests.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
There's a goodie bag there made up of a heap
of different things. He's air fresheners, there's coasters, there's you
name it, margs, coffee marks, it's all. There's a text
sharewell one word to five double O nine with your
details and we'll be sure to give that away. So
we'll play a bit of christ Christmas music today because's
got a play it at some stage.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I suppose.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Paknu's five day forecast with twin farm teffron and softext.
The proof is in the progeny teff from dot co
dot insad.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Friday afternoon brings rame of breezy sol westerlies and eleven
Saturday showers of breezy soil westerlies five and eleven. Sunday
Sunday we're like soal westerlies two and fifteen, Monday afternoon
showers of breezy easterlies ten and nineteen, and Tuesday very
similar cloudy. We're breezing north westerlies six and thirteen, so
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two inches to hand, Clinton fifteen point four, Herriets eleven
point eight Northern South and thirteen point nine Riverton fifteen
point one, town Now fifteen point three Tittera fourteen Winter
and fourteen point three of Woodland's fourteen point eight.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Jamie McKay starts us.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Off in the Country Crossover for the final time for
the year, followed up by Morgan Green of Any Spites.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Ellen McCleary of Shearwell, New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Today's recipient will sponsor for the Mister Christmas Giveaway. Niger
Woodhead Farming in South Otago wraps up the year from
his perspective and how he's hoping things are going to
go into the twenty twenty six and Phil Duncan of
weather Watch give us a look at the forecast for
the next ten days down here in the Deep South,
soout further Ado will.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Start the yell of Jamie McKay.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
This is the muster until two o'clock means to Peters Genetics,
get texting Sheerwell all one word to five double low nine.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
With your detail. I Love Christmas Sound.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Jamie McKay, host of the country joins us and the
country crossover Billy Matt Christmas is all around Love actually
one of the goats of the Christmas movie scene, Jamie, Oh, my.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
Favorite Christmas movie. I think Love actually got a stellar cast.
And I love Billy Mack.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
He is so good. He is so good.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Great song, great choice to go out or to send
off twenty twenty five, Andy, for the last day for
the two of us. Wasn't like that when we were farmers?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
No, absolutely not normally. No, you're busy on the handpiece
and stuff.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
Well, the backpackers you used to call it, and I
don't know what we were called, the Koweka hackers. I
think was our crutching gang. And we were going flat
out on the lead into Christmas, because, as you know, Andy,
every lamb you crutch before Christmas, there's a hell of
a lot easier than the ones you crutch after Christmas
because they get a few more DAGs on them.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Your Dean rabbage Fish sharing his lambs yesterday, doing them
pre Christmas. He thought he'd give it a whirl.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Yeah, Well, it's totally I'd imagine management thing that because
you're not going to get much wool off than this
time of the year. So I suppose if you're paying crutches,
you pay them a bit more, get the feathers off them,
and away you go. Although I noted that I was
looking at the PGG Rights and Wall report this morning,
the wall market has lifted again. It's got a long
way to go. But look, in the nineteen eighties we
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were getting five dollars a kilogram for youth fleece, up
up to six dollars a kilogram. It's one stage for
Hoggard and Lamb war. You know, when you take the
hyperinflation we've had since then, we're a long way.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Off the pace.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
I'm fine to saying Andy that everything should be ten bucks.
The deer farmers mightn't agree agree with me with venison,
but even lamb, beef, milk, and wool were all ten bucks,
that would be happy days.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Is a canon. Michais are worth ten bucks.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
Probably, and I'm understanding that you're on the cage and
you want some. I don't know if they're ten bucks.
They're three thirties this year. Last year they were the
big ones. You know, what were they five hundred, five
hundred milo? Anyhow, now, look, it's a good brew. I
you know, hand on heart. I haven't had a can
of Machaiser yet. The only makais are of consumed is
(07:26):
that the christ Show. And of course at a sudden
storm shout at Nigel Woodford's, which I know you were there, Woodhead, Woodhead, Woodhead,
where'd I get Woodford?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Nigel?
Speaker 7 (07:37):
Yes, they are a good Mosman family. Indeed, hey, so
at Nigel's place, Nigel and Lean's. And that was one
of the real highlights for me in twenty twenty five,
was just the generosity of Emersons and Spades and obviously
Silver Ferm Farms and everyone who contributed to that day.
(07:58):
That day, you know, Mainland Sergeant Dan, the whole lot,
whoever was involved in all that day. But I'm just
thinking it was just a good day out for farmers.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, special shout out to Murray Kober and the Mainland
minerals shouting the chops.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
For the day. I wasn't aware of that till the
day of the event.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
No, he's been around the traps for a long time now,
Murray and you know the good company Mainland Minerals. Yeah,
he just quietly turned up and provided all the chops,
so good on him.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
It was bloody great.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Ye, he's a great sponsor of Hokkanui as well. Good
on your murray. So you look back at the year
that's been the AGG Person of the Year, it's always
a contentious issue or not contentious, but everybody's got a
different spin on it.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Yes they have, and I can't tell you mine yet,
even though I will have told it on my show
because Andy, this is a pre record and my AGG
Person of the Year is going down to the wire
quite literally to the wire. But it's all the usual suspects,
So the folks would have heard my AGG person of
the Year between twelve and one.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Who is yours?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I'm thinking of it off the spectrum here. I'm going
for Catherine Wright, who's a counselor based out of Fieldland, Basin.
She's been doing work around rural mental health. She did
a PhD regarding the effects of rural mental health and
young farming people. And she's also just put a paper
out or doing a survey recently regarding how land juice
change affixes effects rural connections. And Catherine very much has
(09:23):
been doing this work for a couple of years now
and I really like the way she goes about things.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Well, good on you, and that's a good local agg
Person of the Year as well. But I thought you
might have nominated Jeff Heaps.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Jeff Heaps, geez, you could just about me up there.
He's like less listener for the last thirty two years
of hocken New He got good on you, Jeff. He
came up there and had a yarm of myself and
Trina use today brought a few chocolate things for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Jeff. We always appreciate your feedback.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
But always getting emails. He's keeping me, he's making sure
her fingers are on the pulse.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Jamie. Oh, he's a.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
Great bloke and forth those thirty two years he's been.
We get daily emails from him. You're copied in on
those now. And he always he's always got I don't
know how much time he spends trawling than that, but
he's always digging up interesting facts and figures. Loves his music,
loves the Eagles. But he's just often a source of
information and he'll send me or you or Michelle at
(10:17):
an email and there'll be a link to some interesting
stories somewhere around the world, and it often leads to
an interview. So no Jeff You're an absolute champion bloke,
have been since day one. And yeah, we did send
him some machaiza even if you missed out, Andy, Yeah,
I know food.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Chain, right chain.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Look, Winston Peters and this talk about him going with Flavor,
if he's a change in leadership. We've talked about this before.
Is it just another media beat up or do you
think he could be something to this?
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Well, I supposedly he's making an announcement today and as
we said, because of the technical demands of getting the
Pony Express from Dunedin to Gore, this is a pre record,
so it's like nine point thirty in the morning Andy,
as we record this. My understanding is he's coming out today.
Whether it happens before this goes to her, I don't know,
(11:08):
and making a definitive statement or over the weekend about
whether he would consider going with Labor. Look if you
listen to his closing speech in Parliament, which was an
absolute cracker man oh man, that he gets stuck into
Labor and especially to party Maori and the Greens. I mean,
he hasn't got a great track record of being in government.
(11:31):
He always gets kicked out after one term. But I
like Winston and I like Shane, but I'd never forgive
him if he went with Labor, especially with Chippy, because
he said he's not going to go with Chris Sipkins.
And I will give Chris Sipkins a due here. Whether
he's sleep walking to victory, I don't know, but certainly
Labor is doing well under his leadership. I think Luxeon's
(11:53):
on the improve, he's on the rise. He had a
very good speech in Parliament as well. But Chris Hipkins
has done a very good job. It's that Petra trouncing
they got in twenty twenty three. Of keeping Labour's profile,
whether it's high or not, I don't know, but he's
kept them to the forefront. Labor's polling really well and
he personally is polling really well. There's no danger at
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all of Chris Hipkins not being the Labor or not
leading Labor into the next election, just as there is
no danger at all despite the Chris Bishop talk of
Luxeon being rolled. It won't happen. It'll be Luson versus
Hipkins and the side players and New Zealand First and
Act versus to Party, Maury and the Greens. And I
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think that's where the election will be won and lost.
New Zealand First and ACT are a much more creditable
coalition partner than to party may or the Greens.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah, i'd agree with you on that and the other
thing too. Mark Patterson doing a lot of great work
this year. We can't underestimate what Mark's done. He's had
a pretty good twelve months. But going into woolsheds and
looking people in the eye knowing that he's gone with
the Left after everything that's gone on.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I don't think.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
Yeah, Mark Patterson would probably resign.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I agree with you.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
He's kind of a quiet achiever, Mark Patterson, and he's
doing a lot of the good rural work for New Zealand. First,
there's some good rural MPs in Parliament now. The NAT's
brought in five or six of them, including our old
mate Grant mcnational in the last election. And you think
of Mark Patterson for New Zealand first, and then you
think of Mark Cameron, who's basically on his death bed
(13:27):
waiting for a kidney transplant, the ACT guy, and Andrew
Hoggart of course, who's straight straight into Parliament as a minister,
and we rarely do and our current crop of politicians
have some really good rural farmer MPs.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Good only Jamie just before we wrap up as well.
So what is your holiday entail? Pretty much just golf
every day.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
Oh no, to drive me batty. That's why I can't retire, Andy,
I'm not good enough would drive me batty playing every day. Look,
I hope to get down to Riversdale ten to my
loved wetland and duck Pond. Got lots of trees to
fuss over. I just about know the name of every
tree down there, Andy, So I want to get down
to Riversdale. I want to tour around south and have
a look at the old dairy farming interests down there.
(14:13):
There'll be a trip to Central at some stage, and
then a wedding at Waheki Island and a bit of
time with family and twanga on the way home. But
to be perfectly honest with you, Andy, I'm a big
fan of staycationst and Eden's a wonderful city over the
Christmas break because everyone leaves it and you've got it
all to yourself. But yeah, lots of golf, most of
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it won't be much good. A few bears, a bit
of exercise and just on behalf of us here at
the Country. I'd like to wish you Andy, you've done
a great job on the Muster and all your listeners
because I know you've got heaps Merry Christmas. Are safe
and happy Christmas and a prosperous new farming here.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Good only Jamie and Beckett you guys up there in
the country always enjoyed our chats and make sure you
drop their grog off next week.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Doing my best so.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
I hope it doesn't get lost in trains.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
It Jamie McKay and the Country crossover Up next, we
catch up with Morgan Green from Northern South and Vets.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Goes the Muster's animal health segment with Nis Vets adding
value through practical advice and service, no gimmicks, no potions,
total vet care.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
It's time to catch out with Morgan Green of Northern
South and Vets, official animal health advisors to the Muster.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Morgan, good afternoon.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
How are you good afternoon?
Speaker 5 (15:38):
And I'm doing well?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Thanks?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
How are you pretty good?
Speaker 1 (15:40):
As we look outside and just looking at the drop
in temperature and it sounds like it's that way over
the next couple of days. But from a VETZ perspective,
how have we been over the past couple of weeks.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Oh, look, teams have been taken along pretty well. To
be fair, I certainly been very busy doing seeker agcounts
on lambs and people obviously want to to know what
their status is. And definitely people are checking so much
more now, which is great to see both prior to
drenching and post drenching as well. So you know, if
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we went back a few years ago, probably people were
very much in the routine of giving a pre winning
drench and by just doing that, and probably some of
that was based on our advice at the time. You know,
if we went back probably fifteen twenty years ago, was
very very common that we were actually see collect counting
prior to drenching. And so we've sort of come around
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full circle a weabit, which is which is really good.
So people are just making more informed decisions. Yeah, I
guess sometimes some of the challenge can be around righty
for drenching, Now, when when's our next draft going to be?
You had different mobs to one mob maybe need to
be drenched and another mob doesn't, and how do we
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manage all of that? So yeah, there's always some good
conversations to be had around it and just trying to
come up with a plan that's both practical but also sensible.
So yeah, look, plenty of those conversations happening. We're into
scanning of the of heifers at the moment, and so
AI heifers that have been again doing a wee bit
of that that's been trickling in and sort of certainly
(17:16):
a little bit of that, and the first few days
the next week prior to the Christmas break, doing a
little bit of phantom scanning in cows as well. We
don't really push a huge amount of that where yeah,
I guess one of the things as well, if you
do come across a cow that has been mated and
is not pregnant, now you know, what are your options
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around that, and is it actually worthwhile depending on the
individual animal trying to trying to fix that situation. So
that again, that's individual conversations around farmers there. And yeah,
once once we get into early January, we'll start into
the cow scanning in a big way, and yeah, we'll
carry on into the new year. We've sort of yeah,
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obviously some of the people will have a wee bit
of a breakover over Christmas and the New year. Over
the set days, but otherwise it's business as usual for us.
Not like you Andy, who I believe has got quite
a good breakover over the next few weeks.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
It's a company director of Morgan.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
You know, it's a very different situation to people that
are involved in farming. Yeah, from the point of view
of you kind of get a bit a bit annoyed.
And when you hear all the talk about all these
long holidays that people are able to take when when
you're slogging away, but look, it's it's it's one of
those things. And then you know, I hope most people
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can get a bit of time off and enjoy a
couple of days and yeah, I know cow still need
to be milked and not need to be shifted and
looked after and all of that, but you know, it's
just one of those things. At this time of year,
it has has to be done. All of those jobs
need to be done, and yeah, but at the same time,
the people to get a few hours where they're able
to enjoy, you know, a bit of Christmas spirit and yeah,
(18:59):
a bit of time will at some stage.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
How come in a phantom pregnancies and kettle.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Oh look reasonably common. So by a phantom pregnancy. I mean,
you know, a cow has been mated and you and
then she does not come back on heat. So there'd
very much be individual variation between farms, you know, mainly
different reasons for it. You certainly higher producing cows if
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they're not being said as well as what they possibly
should be or could be, that can be a bit
of an issue. And you know, high producing cows, it's
always a bit of a challenge this time of year
with grass quality not being quite the way it should
be at times. You know, so they they're mated, you
think they're in calf because they haven't come back, and
then they're not. So yeah, I guess I've I haven't
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looked at our exact figures on that what those numbers are,
but you know, it's always a wee bit of a
challenge at times, and as say, there are individual farm
variations there as well. But it's it's more it's a
frustrating thing.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Because fandom pregnancies are a thing in dogs as well.
We had a look a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Had that heaven.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Yeah, and that's that's more a pseudo pregnancy, which is
probably a slightly different thing in that in the hormonal
cycle of of the bitch is very very different to
the cows. The cows which just keep should keep cycling
naturally if they're not pregnant, whereas with bitches, because they
have essentially the majority of them come on heat twice
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a year, it does work a little bit differently. So
if they're if they don't, if they're not mated, sometimes
the body can be tricked into thinking they are pregnant,
and so they can produce milk, they can nest, they
can do all sorts of things like that and actually
not be pregnant. And it's kind of an evolutionary thing
where they, you know, we're the top, top bitch in
the pack. She actually had the ability to be able
(20:53):
to foster some of her pups off onto some of
the other some of the other females in the pack
who are then able to look after them. And that's
kind of a revolutionary thing that has that has happened.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
So clinic holas over the holiday season, what's happening, Morgan.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Just clause for the stat days. Otherwise we're we're open
as per normal and clause for the stat days, but
there's always somebody on call. So twenty four to seven
So Riversdale clinek is two zero two five, six, three
six and ten now two four nine seven zero three nine.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Good on your Morgan Green of Videos fits. We appreciate
having you guys on board and catching up every couple
of weeks all the time. They enjoy the fist of season.
It's do it all again next year.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Yeah, no, absolutely we will. And obviously the happy Christmas
to everybody and all the best for twenty twenty six.
And yeah, have a good break yourself and and we'll catch.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Up in the new year.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Morgan Green of innis fits remembering text sheer Well All
one word sh e A s h E A w
E l L to five double nine go on the
drawd to win two oil skin vests plus a goodie
bag from Allen and team at Sheerwell, New Zealand, who
coincidentally we've chaed up. We don't chat them up, we
have a chat. Next it is the Muster Giveaway, a
(22:18):
salute to the farmers. Our final draw is with the
one and only Alan McCleary out of Sheerwell, New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Good afternoon, Allen.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
Oh, merry Christmas mate, and the one and only that
I feel quite sort of special.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Now, well, I don't know any other Allen McCleary's down
here in the south, so there may be other ones
rolling around.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Apologies of theorists.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
I think there is no no.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Hey, look, Sheerwell, New Zealand. Let's change the tech to
weave it today. Tell us about the history of Sheerwell,
New Zealand and where it started.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
Right, Well, let's start up with a Richard Webber over
in the UK that he started off as a sharer
and did a lot of different things. He came over
and each short around the Gorey area for I think
a year or two. You came over for a couple
of seasons and he had a dip dipping business net
at home and he just bought himself a farm. Eventually
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didn't didn't particularly like the tags that he had they
kept coming out, so they designed these ones and that's
the end of the story. Really, he's just he's just
moved all around the world. It's we're in all through
the UK and Ireland and that Canada, America, Australia. Australia's
big and then us.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
We're just sare Well. In general, it's massive, aren't you guys?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Like a line of Clarkson's farm as Well's Dudley Squat Farm.
Speaker 9 (23:38):
We are but yeah, yeah, of course we are with
all the celebrities mate and.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Sounds like it.
Speaker 9 (23:43):
And the other one, what's the other the one up
in Yorkshire, the family up there they use that. Yeah,
look they've got they have got a monopoly over in
the UK by a long way.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yes, So how long have they been in New Zealand?
When did it startup over here?
Speaker 9 (23:57):
I'm not actually one hundred percent sure they'd been here
for a while, but Bobby, it's might have been ten
years and then so I've been I think I'm heading
into my seventh year. So we really got cranking. They
got serious when I started. I suppose that was when
they said, right, we've got everyone else under control, let's
go with New Zealand. So yeah, so the last seven
(24:19):
years we've really really cramped into it over here. It's
it's brilliant. We've had terrific support from from the farmers here.
It's been brilliant. So thank you very much for all that.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
As far as options for animals, you're covering all the
all the animal rangers suppose cattle, sheep, deer and.
Speaker 9 (24:34):
The likes yep, old packers there onto us. There's goats
and if you go to the UK, well you can
tag anything you can dream of if they've got to
tag for everything, mate, But you know, we're just concentrating
on the sheep and the cattle. We've got quite a
few deer clients and the old packer are now they're
official tag for the Old Packers Society. And yeah, the goats.
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We've got a lot in the goats too, not that
there's that many goats, but so you know, we cater
for everybody.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
For you know, some train setter and lester Square might
be wearing a couple of tags and as.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
There it could be.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Nothing's off the table these days, Allen, Well.
Speaker 9 (25:13):
There's not, I think I said last time. You know,
there's there's there's a dive company that put them on
all there. They put these IDs on their all their
equipment and scan the divers on and off. And there's
a handle club you know you go to.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
The pub and go to the pub, yet they've got
the tags on them.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
Yeah, so yeah, you just never know where they're going
to pop up.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
And the great thing of sheer Well is the turnaround
regarding printing with ray.
Speaker 9 (25:40):
Yeah, look we are quick. I like to say, you know,
if you haven't got them in a week, give us
a ring. But you should have them well and truly
within a week. Unless something goes wrong with the posting.
We've got to carry on.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
No, no, you go.
Speaker 9 (25:53):
I was going to say, we've we've up our colors
too with the sheep. We I'm a wee bit. I
don't like saying this because you have the Irish here
in it. But we've got thirteen colors at the moment.
But there's another another blue, so we'll be right there.
And we've got fourteen, so we've got plenty of plenty
of colors for the sheep, and there's nine for the cattle.
We possibly might do another one yet, but it sort
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of seems to be the be a good a good number.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
There's the key to a successful tag, I suppose, durability
and being able to see it. If you're drafting up
the race, you've just got the hunter ways driving them
up right. You want to be able to see and
see pretty quickly what you're dealing with.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
In the year.
Speaker 9 (26:33):
Yeah, yeah they are, and theos look to be farriers
were very dull finished but they didn't or we had
one problem, but we've fixed that. We've got a new orange,
but yeah, it was they have brightened up their colors,
so we've got a new yellow, a new bright green,
brighter blue on the way, and in the orange it's
a good bright orange now. So yeah, if they're coming up,
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tearing up the race, you got to see them in
a hurry.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Haven't you now?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
The price we're giving away today on the muster, it's fantastic.
Allan two shecher Well oil skin vests plus a goodie bag.
What have we got in there? I think there's a
there might be like a coffee mug, a couple of
hats and the likes or hats with lights in the
front of them. Actually really for those early starts or
like finishes at the moment, people need to text cher
(27:19):
Well to five double oh nine to give him the drawer, Allen.
And it's a hell of a good price too. We
really appreciate you being involved.
Speaker 9 (27:26):
Oh thanks for inviting us. It was brilliant. But it's
a coffee mug. I hope you like coffee, because man,
they are a big they're a big mug.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
We mon't talk about big bugs, Allen McCleary. That's a
story for another day.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
But look, if somebody, like we say, if somebody wants
to learn more about scher, well, how do they get
in touch with you guys, Given it's a busy season,
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Speaker 9 (27:46):
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Friday for the printing. But if you get stuck or
you forgot and you need them, give us a ring.
We might be able to work something out for you
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Speaker 1 (28:05):
So you guys are shutting up shot today, But if
you need some printing done, get in touch and we'll
see what we can.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
You'll see what you can do for the customer, right well.
Speaker 9 (28:14):
We will, we will, and we'll thank you everybody. It's
been been a pleasure working with you. And we'll have
a merry Christmas and a safe one and we'll see
you in the new year. Andy'll lit me good.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Only Allen always got to catch up with the team
from Sheerwour, New Zealand, So get texting in Sheerwell to
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our New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
You enjoy the fist of season, you too.
Speaker 9 (28:42):
Andy, Merry Christmas, everybody.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Christmas Us, that says the Master on Hakanui. You remember
and get those entries in sheer out of I have
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and the team, A couple of oils con vests to
give away and some other Sheerwell goodies.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
We're going to draw that before the end of the hour.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
As we catch up once again with Nigel Woodhead farming
in South Otago between Balcluther and Milton.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Good afternoon, Nige.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
A bit of rain, Yeah afternoon, Andy, afternoon listeners. Yep,
there's raining steadily so I don't know if you can
hear in the background, but I'm hiding in my workshop
today because it's obviously Yeah, Wen the weave at Chili,
so getting some workshop jobs done.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
Yeah, good opportunity to get there, some of them tidied up.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
You'll be laughing this rain up on imagine.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
I loving it, loving it? Yeah, well I think I
tipped out twelve this morning or somewhere thereabouts, which takes
us to fifty odd for the week. Yep, fifty odd meals.
So yeah, we took a long life. I think I
said to someone last night. We had some thunderstorms a
couple of days ago, and my parents are only five
(29:59):
minutes away. They got thirty mills at about half an hour,
so I think by yesterday morning my parents had had
seventy odd meals. So yeah, the odd thunderstorms gave a
few people with an extra weir drink as well.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
We got that on Wednesday night here and gore but
very localized about thirty mills in no time. The drains
got and compete, and there was hail fully at the
same time.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
It was actually pretty surreal to watch.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Yeah, well I just happened. We were actually doing to
having our FAP audit, and I went for a drive
with the auditor, and you could see all the hills
around us were white with snow, not snow with hail. Sorry,
and we had just been sort of raining steadily here.
But you know, we've got neighbors with young grass washed
out and bits and pieces. There's a few crop peeddiccks
(30:45):
and young grass paddocks with runs on them around the place,
which is a shame. But yeah, we sort of we
got some rain out of it, but we missed all
the damage, which was good for us. But it's that
time of year, November December, you can get thunder storms,
so we'll take the moisture.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
So what are you looking at? What are you doing
farm wise? And the lead up for the next week
before the Santa Claus occurs.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
I basically just got I drinched a couple of mobs
yesterday of lambs, and I've got probably yeah, four bobs
still to go, so you two thirds of the lambs
still to drink, which is only if I get my
a energy. It's only one decent day, so I'll probably
split split it over Saturday Sunday or Sunday Monday or something.
(31:31):
Just to take the pressure off. I'll get out this
afternoon and get some some of the mobs mustered up
the out of gullies and things, just push them a
bit closer to the house, just to take the pressure off.
So yeah, just these jobs to be done, but try
not make it, try not stress out too much.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
So as the time of year about now, you normally
take a look back in the year and think, yeah,
another year down, done and dusted, and look at your
goals if your goal sitting, and just be satisfied before.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
You're at Yeah, I think yeah, Like as farmers, we
tend to think about things in the farming year, right,
which is sort of winter, the winter. Yeah, obviously the
previous financial year and get finished in this past winter
wasn't too bad. But yeah, like it's it's sort of
(32:19):
all positive at the moment. We killed lambs last week
one hundred and eighty odd dollars killed some news one
hundred and sixty odds, so it's yeah, it's fantastic. It's
was sort of there's going to be a bit more
money floating around the industry and around the local communities
economies in the autumn once and cash comes in.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Well, you've had worse.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
It's good to see.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
You would have had worse lamb sheets.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Let to be honest, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I think
I've probably only ever had one better lamb sheet, and
that was a hand for hogits I killed in the
spring this year. So yeah, we'll take it. And like
they weren't juj are only sixteen point eight, But your
relative to the number of years we've got now there'll
be our best winning draft and year to use the user. Really,
(33:08):
I think they're twenty seven seven kilos or something, which
isn't all bad. You know, the old the old tarps
don't know us much now, so that's yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
So when you're look at heead into twenty twenty six,
what are you thinking with your farming leans on?
Speaker 4 (33:27):
For me, it's about you know, making the most of
a good of some good prices and a good season
hopefully coming around the corner. You know, we were lack
getting some of the summer cropping and there's sort of
been two strikes because it was a bit dry. We've
got but we've got heat to you know, twenty heat
years of summer cropping. So yeah, it's sort of a
(33:48):
for us for the next six weeks is get get through,
make sure lambs are in good heart and you're growing
as much as they came. But really to put as
many lambs as we can on the summer crop and
and put as much weight on them as we can
and then start putting weight on news ready for next year. Really,
you know, one thing, my man's always sort of seed
(34:09):
as you get to weaning, and you know, nine percent
of this year's profits already set. You know, it's set
by how many lambs you weaned. You can put a
few extra kilos on, but it's just just bonus really.
But the biggest impact you can have for your future
is put weight on news now ready for next season.
So obviously focus on lambs and finishing some lambs this
(34:29):
year to make the most of good schedules, but also
put as much weight as we can on news getting ready.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
For next year.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
And then you know, once once I've killed a few
lambs and got a medication the bank account, and then
we'll sort of start thinking about where we can where
some of that capital gets gets allocated, and what we're
going to do, whether it's more development or replace some gear,
or payoff death or all of the above. Yeah, So
(34:57):
it's just make the most of a good season and
try and get as much benefit out of a out
of a reasonable year as we can.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Good on your Nige, Thanks for your contributions on the
Muster and twenty twenty five yourself yet and the family,
have a great holiday season. We'll catch up. We've really
appreciated your thoughts on the Muster this year.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
No I know are same to you and Shannon the
boys and and all the listeners out there. Hope, I
hope he runs. I will set it up for a
reasonable Christmas and yeah, hazybole to get some time off
and spend time with some sort of family and friends,
because you know it's a busy time year. But at
the same time it's important to to be able to
(35:40):
have a breeder and reflect on the previous year, like
you say, and set it up ready for the new one.
So all the beast he run in Mary Christmas, we'll
see in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Six Niger Ondhead Farming in south of Tigo between bout
Cluther and Milton. Your very last chance to get your
name into the drawer for the Muster Christmas giveaway thanks
to Shearwell New Zealand two oilskin vests plus some goodies
as well. Takes Sheerwell to five double A nine with
(36:10):
your details and we'll draw that before the end of
the hour. Phil Duncan from weather Watch wraps the Muster
for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
He's up next shoeishs Chris.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Good Bye, many covers.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
And for the very last time in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
This catch up with Phil Duncan out of weather Watch.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Good afternoon, Phil Duncan.
Speaker 8 (36:58):
God, how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Pretty good?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
But I'll tell you what it looks like. We've got
some rain on the forecast down here in the South
a high of like ten or eleven today, and it
looks as though we've got this for the next seven
days or so.
Speaker 5 (37:11):
Do you know what.
Speaker 8 (37:11):
I look at the rain radar that was across this morning.
It's probably one of the more widespread rain events that
I've seen around Southland than a while. It's solid rain,
if you want.
Speaker 5 (37:21):
To call it that.
Speaker 8 (37:22):
And a cold day, yeah, like going for a maximum
of eleven and overnight low of five. And believe it
or not, as we go into Sunday night Monday morning,
when the clear, clearest skies come in and the winds
fade out more, there's a real chance we can have
a frost on either Sunday morning or Monday morning and
overnight low on Sunday nights down to two degrees in Gore,
(37:45):
which is definitely in the frost territory. So it's not
a high chance of a frost because it's possibly just
the ground's so warm now, but it is definitely going
to be a colder weekend, what I would describe as
a wintry weekend. It warms up on Monday to nineteen
or twenty degrees. Tuesday, you definitely should be around twenty
(38:05):
twenty one or so. But then the next cold front
arrives on Christmas Eve, and then unfortunately, it looks as
though we're going to be stuck with low pressure and
colder air flows as we go into Boxing Day and
next weekend, where I'm seeing maximum temperatures next Friday, next Saturday,
next Sunday of only fourteen degrees and overnight lows of
(38:26):
just six or seven. So it's an especially cold run
of weather coming into Southland, f j Audland and Otago
and even maybe parts of Westland.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Are we going like this right through into a New
Year's Eve? Would you say?
Speaker 8 (38:38):
I don't think so. In fact, I was looking at
the weather maps before, and there's a lot of the
weather maps are messy at the moment. So when you
go out more than five days, you'll see a low,
and then the next day when you look at that
same low again, it's changed shape and it's moved areas,
and so it's changed the forecast. But we are seeing
a lot of low pressure south of the country. There
(38:59):
may be some high pressure coming in around the end
of the year, but at the same time, the tropics
could be waking up and producing stuff. So we've got
we're monitoring this summer, not just December, but I think
the whole summer. We're watching tropical lows that could come
our way, and we're watching the Southern Ocean be stormy,
and I think, obviously for you guys, the Southern Ocean
(39:20):
is the main driving force of the weather, which means
westerlies and southwesterlies are probably going to be off and
on for a little bit longer. But yeah, it looks
like a cold end to twenty twenty five. I'm sad
to report because you guys have had a bit of
a colder, bleaker kind of end of the year, more
so than other parts of New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
So what are we going to see for the continuation
of summer?
Speaker 1 (39:41):
As you gaze into your crystal ball, which you don't
like to do, but we've always talked about the seasons
being three weeks behind where they probably normally are.
Speaker 8 (39:49):
Well, I think this year it's probably not so much
about the season being behind it's more about the fact
that the Southern Ocean is very stormy and so that
is driving what this sort of late spring weather pattern.
The longest range where the map I can go to
today goes out to lunchtime January the third, so that Saturday,
January the third, and it's like this is not locked in,
(40:10):
but it explains exactly where we're going this summer. So
there are on this map which like I say, could change.
There are two low pressure zones north of New Zealand,
one directly north of the North Island, the other one
near New Caledonia, so both of those would be worth monitoring.
There is a stormy low east of the Channam Island,
so that's moving away from us. But there is another
low pressure zone which means all to the north of
(40:32):
New Zealand and all to the east of New Zealand
there's lows. And in south of the country there is
a storm and I mean well south over the Southern Ocean,
closer to Antarctica than southwest. But the air pressure for
that is nine fifty eight. That's a proper storm. And
then you've got high pressure smackdang over New Zealand bringing
west to northwest winds which would be warm and dry
and sunny to Southland. But that were the map that
(40:55):
I'm looking at, Like I say, not locked in. But
what it shows you is low pressure north of the
country that I've got to keep an eye on as
a weather forecaster, and storm south of the country that
I've got to keep an eye on, especially for you guys.
And then these high pressure zone coming out of Australia,
they're the ones that will block and keep away these lows.
So when those HIGs aren't over us, we're probably going
(41:16):
to get either a tropical low coming down or a
southern Ocean cold front coming up. That's kind of the recipe.
There's a lot of energy being pushed into us from
the north and the south. Those high pressure zones this
year are going to be more critical than maybe in
other summers when we don't have quite so many low
pressure zones trying to zone into us.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
I'm looking at Hobart's forecasts for the next seven days.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Now.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
You talk more often than not about our weather being
very similar to Tasmania.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
They've got highs of.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Fifteen twenty two, nineteen, eighteen, thirteen, fourteen and late teen's
early twenties.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Very similar to what we're experiencing.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
So as a fair to correlate the Tasmanian we're the
cycle of Southland.
Speaker 8 (41:56):
One hundred percent, and in fact even even Victoria, because
Melbourne has had a similar run. The only difference is
Victoria can get a northerly wind and you know, one
day at seventeen degrees and the next day it's forty two.
That doesn't happen in Southland.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
Maybe in the woolshed, but not certainly not today.
Speaker 8 (42:14):
That's right, that's right. You need a real northwester cranking
out of Australia to get to forty degrees in New Zealand,
and that pretty much only happens in Canterbury, although Central
Otago gets pretty close to it as well. But yeah,
that's the weather that goes on in the southeast corner
of Australia. So basically Victoria, Tasmania, especially Tasy though, yeah,
we share similar weather patterns, and especially the lower half
(42:35):
of the South Island this past spring. But Tasmania has
had a worse run of weather than Southland has had.
So I say that to make you feel better about everything.
But yeah, they've had a really, really bleak spring, it
has been much colder. They've had more wintry outbreaks, they've
had more snow on the mountains than we've had. But
we're making up for that over this current week and
(42:58):
weekend and next week as well. We're playing a better
catch up now with the cold changes coming through, mostly
for the South Island, but even all of New Zealand
will get this cold change coming in tonight and tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
So what you're telling me is a new slogan for Southland.
We're like Tasmania, but without the snakes.
Speaker 8 (43:13):
Yeah, and without all the other poisonous stuff.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
And the Australians and the accent and the oh.
Speaker 8 (43:20):
You know, you don't got your own accent, so yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
When we got the r thing going on, Phil, hey,
we'll leave it there. Thank you very much for your
time on the show. We get a lot of great
feedback regarding weather Watch and what you're doing. Enjoy the
fist of season and it's doing all again next year.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
We really appreciate your time on the muster. Phil Duncan,
thank you.
Speaker 8 (43:37):
Jamie Jamie got there's a flip. Thank you and you
appreciate it like I really do appreciate the support you
give me. I love your audience. I get comments from them.
They write to my YouTube page and the weather watch
site from time to time. So Merry Christmas to everyone listening,
have a great summer, and don't shoot the weather man
like I'm only the messenger. I'm not making the weather.
(44:00):
I think they're going to roll in a high presser.
I'll try and find some high pressure for you.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
You do that, good on your pille Cheers, buds, laugh.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
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last segment every year on the Muster. Thank you to
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you the listener. I really appreciate each and every one
(45:17):
of you, especially with the feedback we get here on
the show.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
We'll leave it there. My name's Andy Muir.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
This has been the Muster on Hakanui thanks to Peter's
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