August 21, 2025 • 44 mins
Andy Muir talks to Matt McRae, Phil Duncan, Michelle Watt, Andrew Alderson and Katrina Thomas.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Friday afternoon and the sun's out. We're catching up in
Nathan Abernethy had a regional Ford like we do every
Friday here on the Muster Giday. Nathan.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah, good afternoon, Andy, not a bad one it is either,
is it? The day's quite nice. Nice to be working outside,
and everything nice and tidy out on the yard, that's
for sure. There's plenty happening at the moment. Andy, It's
incredibly busy, I've got to say, which is really good.
We're pretty happy about that. Lots and lots of new
ones going out and plenty still to arrive, plenty of
used vehicles. We've got no shortage of US vehicles. Probably
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a lot more passenger at the moment than what we'd
often have, and that's great because we're often short of it.
Things like SUV's like Ford Everest and Ford Escape and
Toda Rev four and Tooa Prado and Mixubushi Outband. There's
all those sorts of things that people have sort of
perhaps moved away from the typical old four door car
of years ago into more of your SUV's type family vehicle.
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So lots and lots of those coming through also, just
in the last few days, we've just had come in
a two thy and nineteen Ford L Raptor. This is
a bright red one with canopy, really really nice vehicle,
traveled about one hundred and twenty thousand k's by a
couple of owners. Now, these Raptors are amazing vehicles. They've
got the really neat suspension, they go amazingly well, they've
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just got a bit of a stance about them. That
the truck's a bit different to a normal truck. It's
a leave bit wider than what a normal ranger is
and that truck's going to go on in the yard here
today for forty nine nine ninety including GST. But there's
plenty of other options if you're thinking about doing something.
We do have a lot of high lucks coming through
at the moment. So yeah, if there's anybody out there
wanting to come and have a look at our range
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of toyatos, come in and talk to us and we'll
show you around those as well as just don't forget
finance these days. Andy's a huge part of what we
do and a lot of cases, you know, if people
are one wanting to free up money and you are
paying off your vehicle or you own your vehicle. It
is a way that we can free up some money
for you and pay you out and just take a
bit of a loan against your car. Well, the other
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thing we're finding at the moment, if somebody's wanting to
do something then they're paying off their vehicle. We can
actually go and revisit that, and particularly now the way
interest rates have come down quite a lot of andy
over the last year. So if you bought a car
preps anywhere over the last few years, it could be
anywhere in New Zeon and finance through anyone. Cody can
look at it for you now at better interest rates
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and things, we can redo your finance for you and
hopefully bring those payments down. So just keep that in mind.
It's something we're doing a lot of So pack up
the phone and give us a call if there's anything
we can do. As always, we'll be here until just
after five, and we're here on Saturday morning. As always,
anything we can do at all, we'd be only too
happy to help.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Good on your chat next time.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Thanks Andy, good afternoon, and welcome to the muster on Hockni.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I'm dy We are here until two o'clock. Thanks of
Peters genetics. Welcome alive to Friay. Blue sky with sunshine
coming down, a little bit of cloud on the horizon,
but overall not looking too bad for the end of
the working week, although that means nothing on the farm obviously.
And yeah, this blue sky makes a mood a bit better.
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Speaker 4 (03:24):
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Speaker 1 (03:33):
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the weather forecast we have Friday cloudy. You have come
variable wins this afternoon at a higher eleven. Saturday partly cloudy,
have come variable winds minus one and twelve. Sunday sunny
with variable winds zero and thirteen. Monday partly cloudy with
variable winds four and two and fourteen, and Tuesday partly cloudy.
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Were like northerlies five and fifteen. As we start the
show with Matt McCrae farming at Mocareta, followed up by
Phil Duncan out of weather Watch giving an update on
the weather for the next seven days down here in
the South. As we start to see signs of spring
in the year. Michelle Watt joins US for the Country Crossover,
Andrew Aldison out of News Talk ZVB. The All Blacks
(04:19):
team has been named to play the Arg's in the
second Test on Sunday morning, and as well the Wallabies
with the unexpected win over the spring Box last weekend,
and what happens next for the Wallabies, are we able
to do the double over the world champion South Africans
and Katrina Thomas out of Southern Ural Support Trust finishes
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off the hour. But an interesting morning here, especially with
Fontierra selling their consumer arm to French company lack Tallis
for three point eight billion dollars. This is still to
go through and be ratified obviously, but they're targeting as
well the co op a tax free capital return of
two dollars per year from the sale. So that's a
(04:59):
good new Already talk about Fontera, you talk about Open
Countries acquisition of Matara Valley Milk, and just like Jamie
alluded to on the text machine before the Castle Rocks
sailed this morning yielding beef stairs going for over seven
dollars a kilo live weight. That's good coin. So we'll
start the hour now with Matt McCrae. You're listening to
the musterro on Hakanui. Thanks for Peters genetics.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
In this life.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Your feet await a mica rata this afternoon on the muster.
Matt McCrae farms out there catches up with us on
a regular basis. Good afternoon ground conditions out there, Matt.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Are they holding up the afternoon? Andy? Yep, she's another
day in paradise today, so got to weave it wet
earlier there in the weight, which probably had to wear
my leaguing for the first time. Two days in a row.
We'll winter. But yeah, we're back on top of the
ground now, which is good.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Two days in a row and it doesn't happen till
near the end of August. That's outstanding. Really.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Yeah, it's been a pretty corn winter, hasn't it. Yeah,
we'll take it. And things are laughing. I'm pretty much
set up heading into Lemming and ten those times. Yeah, Actually,
long mat continued.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
So you've got a good pick of feet on the padish.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Yeah, that's good. That's good. We've certainly used a bit
through the winter and utilization has been good. But the
crops were probably back slightly, and so yeah, corn winter
has been offset by crops being back awey bit. But yeah,
we're about where we'd like to be the soccer and
good condition and they'll get spread out next week on Yeah,
all right covers but certainly yeah, hopefully we can septembers
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off set. That would be what we're after.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
No issues, the bearings of the likes.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
I shouldn't say too much anty that's good. We haven't yet,
but yeah, I haven't yet. We're used but of meg
and I don't know it helps or not. But yeah,
generally when you spread out, you know, I'm run under
the issue slot that well I might see, but yeah,
hopefully not. We don't generally get a whole lot here
be along made that continue.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Well, if putting meg, using meg or whatever works for you,
then I go away from a winning formula.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Right.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Yeah, it's probably an unproven theory, but I just like
a couple of weeks before we sit stock us a
bit of meg oxide.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
It's pretty cheap.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
And seems to works. Yeah, it's it's just probably something
I do routinely now and then. But they're once you
just sit stock, there's not much you can do to
get meg into them. So yeah, for the best I suppose.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Matt the proposal for the Alliance Meat Company with the
restructure involving Dawn Meats. You're a supplier to the co op.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
What do you make of it?
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Yeah, it's a wait and see approach for me, and
I appreciate the position that they're after a few years
a bad performance as.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
The devil will be in the detail and what they
bring out in the next month and what they have
to send their road show meetings. But either way, it's
going to be a fairly tough decision to make, and
it'll need to be an informed decision to sell off
a majority share in your company, isn't it. So Yeah,
a lot of the detail around what the shoe is
are going to be worse and how that forty million
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dollars slush fund gets divvied out will probably be the
basis of their decision. Anyway, As a shoeholder, are.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You going to give it your tack of approval?
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Let's wait and see. To be fair, I can see
what people would vote either way for it, But like
I say, I'm probably sitting on the fence. What we'll
I'll vote myself. I think I vote yeses, but like
I guess and your sister, in a way it would
have been would have been nicest if these issues are
fixed before it got to the stage. But yeah, it's
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I guess off is probably in the best interests of
the company. But what question is if it's in the
best interest of shareholders and and I guess for the
long term industry structure as well. If it goes ahead
of we're just prolonging the problem for another four or
seven years to the next company goes.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Do you've believe there's no Plan B in place? Well,
it's more least a case. If you don't do this,
then what's the what's the worst case scenario? Possibly you
don't know, Yeah, and.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Not when I lived to that, but in his presentation
last week that the banks are in control of if
we do both know, But yeah, like you say, it
does make you wonder what the other options are. And yeah,
who's wanting to invest in their understand Why are people
wanting to throw that amount of money at it when
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our own farmers aren't. What do they see that we
don't And and yeah, where that value is then going
to end up? Yeah, like I said, it raises a
lot of questions for me On, I've got a fear
old listen here to hit the directors with when they
get the opportunity, and yeah, just so we can make
that informed decision. Well, hopefully, what's going to be benefit
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for the next twenty thirty years of Simon career?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Do you bind the talk around better access towards the EU? I?
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Yeah, it surprised me that because we get told that
we have pretty good access in there already. Yeah, that's
probably not of as a concern for me, but they
obviously got their eye on some of their markets. Does
that have a value? It obviously does, but is it
of enough value? I guess it's been up to the negotiators.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
When you're talking to other farmers and your mates who
are involved with the co op as well, what are
their thoughts?
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Yeah, it seems to be, but Max, I guess people
are just reasonably happy with the product prices at the moment.
But if I'm perfectly honest, there's.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Not a lot of.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
To this and Alliance sholders of surprise around us anymore,
like people are fairy well split. So yeah, she has
probably changed for Alliance in South and non asuming and
a lot of people are going through third party now,
but the ones that are really much a lot of
them put faith and directors and that this is the
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best decisions and vote yes, and others will probably sit
back and have a few questions for them. Yeah, time
will tell, But we're done on the directors for getting
an offer, I suppose, and a pretty challenging a pretty
challenging time for the meat industry. But as we bounce up,
it does make you wonder whether or not we could
have got more for having this conversation trave months down
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the track.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Arguably the sector is doing well of the prices and
that just flows through to people's mind process at the
moment too.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Possibly, Yeah, exactly, And it'd be fascinating to see an
article on Farmers Weekly the other day about whether or
not the vote was after the AGM and see how
see the financials around how this year was tressing, getting
told it's been pretty good, and I think for a
few people it's probably the surprise that sixty five percent
was up for sale when we've been told that all
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ancestressing pretty good. So yeah, lock, So there'll bet there'll
be lots more information than it comes out in the
next month. And I just hope they don't have the
roadshow meetings and while people are still busy gamings. Yeah, yeah,
I guess I'd disencourage anyone that does have shareholders that
as a shareholder with a supplier or not to get
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involved and ask the questions because the more informed we are,
the more we can make a decision and move on.
Isn't it?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Did you have twenty dollars on the Stags on the
nose last night? By chance?
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Matt, No, I shouldn't. I didn't, I should say, but
I am I should have. They actually played buddy good footy. Yeah,
good to see it was downing off aof a humble
by after sitting Yes, I'm sitting there last week and
they are down twenty two a half time riding them off.
But yeah, amazing, what a what a game it was,
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And there's some good signs of progress here, which is
good to say.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
James Wilson came out earlier in the week with a
couple of bizarre comments in my opinion, but nonetheless, look
as far as the Stags and their performance last night,
nothing but at w and Michael Manson, geez, you can't
buy pace, that's one thing.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Yeah, it's good, isn't it? And yeah, I do agree
as if as a Southern traditionalist at heart, it would
have been good to see some of those the one
boys out of the country team going there and give
a crash. I understand they're not conditioned, but yeah, I'll
get James Wilson out doing it down the farm or
in the in the real world and Irish and that would.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Slot on.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
They're pretty good to be.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Fair, Zerrikroi was quoted once, if you to be an MP,
you need to do a day in the snow in
the middle of September on the Southern lambing beeat do
you go?
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Yeah? Yeah, Hopefully those guys, those country gods that are
sporing to to that next level, do get the opportunity
when they when arises.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yes, Matt McCrae, always appreciate your time and the muster.
Enjoy the weekend by goody, need.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
You to Thursday Waiting from Wait Matt McCrae of Mocar
reader all the yems on a Friday afternoon, full Duncle
from weather Watch gives us a rundown in the weather
for the next seven days here in the South.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
He's up next.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
I'll be wait.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
It is time to catch up with Phil Duncan from
weather Watch. I found the right button eventually, Phil Duncan,
(15:08):
Good afternoon, how things nice work?
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Yeah, very good.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Thanks.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Good to be back with you again. On a beautiful
end to the week.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
This weather has been pretty settled over the last few
days here in the South. I've got cooler over the weekend.
Snow was experienced down to a couple of hundred meters
in places, feel Duncan, Are we seeing anything over the
next seven days to be aware of?
Speaker 6 (15:29):
I tell you what, if I look at the next
seven to ten days, looking just at the temperatures, it
looks to me like we are sliding out of winter
and sliding into early spring. That's what it looks like,
because you're still getting cold nights, especially tonight and tomorrow night.
There'll be minus twos, minus three's minus fours around northern Southland.
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So some good frosts over the next couple of mornings.
But then if we go into Sunday Monday, we're sort
of creeping up above zero, and as we go through
next week, the overnight load's got four or five even
eight degrees, and then they do drop back again, but
only to two or three, So it's still kind of
cold at night, but not that bad. And the daytime
highs twelve degrees or so today Thursday or fourteen by
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the time we get to Sunday Monday, and then next
week for a time fifteens and sixteen seventeen, maybe possible
by next Wednesday. Before next weekend things get colder again.
So what I look for when we go out of
winter and go into spring from a weather forecasting point
of view, is seeing these little like peaks in the map.
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So whether that's a peak of temperatures where it goes
up into the mid to upper teams, or it's a
lack of frost for a period of time, or maybe
it's a peak of windy weather. And so those are
the things we're looking for to identify a spring weather pattern.
And when that turns up it changes every year, but
it does look a little bit spring like, I've got
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to admit coming up over the next week or so,
as we start to get more west he's back in
the week forecast.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
So is it going to be a short, sharp blast.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
It looks I wouldn't say sharp, it looks like well,
basically at the moment where we're going to see two
different things. At the moment, We've got a really powerful
high pressure zone ten thirty eight ten forty hector pascals
moving smackdang over the top of the South Island. So
that is, you know, when the air pressure is that
high and is using its elbows to push away any
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kind of wet weather. So we don't really have anything
significant apart from isolated showers. That high is really in
control of our weather. But you fast forward seven days,
that gigantic area of high pressure is replaced by an
even larger area of low pressure. And it's not just
one big low, it's four or five lows that all
kind of merged together. And so when they're big. When
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a low is big like that, the weather is not
always severe, but it does usually mean days of showers
in the forecast. And I do see an uptick and
westerly winds, so temperatures going up westerly is coming in
low pressure increasing. That's usually a bit of a sign
that maybe we might be changing seasons, although I'm always
nervous saying that, but talking to people in Southland because it's.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Been reasonably settled and people we've talked about this before,
being concerned about what September holds, but you reckon. We
just need to put every season into perspective.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Every season is different, every season is unique. And even
though we do have a sort of a general time
of the year when our seasons change, because we're two
mountainous islands all out at sea on our own, things
can change very quickly. It's just the placement of high pressure.
So if high pressure is parked west of us, we're
more likely to have southerlyes, If high pressure is north
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of us, we're more likely to have westerlies, and if
high pressure is east of us, we're more likely to
have a warmer airflow. So these placement of high pressure
can can alter our weather pattern for half a month
at a time, and so that's the reason why our
seasons have different dates every year when you kind of
feel that season changing. But what we're looking for for
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September a little bit hard to lock in just yet,
but I know that we're almost there. But basically that's
because we've been in a neutral weather pattern for the
last year and a half and so we're having all
sorts of things thrown at us, but not necessarily a
lot of severe weather. And what I'm looking for. Is
is that westerly change coming next week with all that
low pressure. Is that it's a sign of the spring
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westerly is arriving or is it just a blip in
the winter where the pattern that where we've been under.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
So do you know the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth?
What do you reckon?
Speaker 6 (19:33):
It was phil as in the shade or in the sun.
In the sun, Oh, I'm guessing quite possibly one hundred
degrees celsius. Maybe not quite that hot.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Right, fifty six point seven degrees in Death Valley in
nineteen thirteen.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
That'll be in the shade. Temperatures are usually done in
the shade about a meter above the ground. I've been
to Death Valley. I was in Death Valley in October
a few years ago, which is octop is their start
of autumn, so it's kind of like our March and
or mark Yere March April our men. And it was
thirty one degrees celsius. And on a day we had
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a frost that morning where we left only just down
the road, so that'd be like waking up in Queenstown
with a frost and then driving to Alexandra and it's
thirty degrees an hour and a half later. It was
quite surreal. That made you think, gosh, what's it like
there in the middle of summer.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I always remember looking at the weather forecasts when I
was a young feller for America, and I couldn't understand
how they just live in one hundred degrees, not being
aware of fahrenheit versus celsius, and I just thought Americans
are just weird full stop, if they could live in
a hundred degrees.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
I still find it hard getting my head around the
fahrenheit feet inches. You know, my parents obviously they measured
in inches and feet when they were younger, and so
like that for them, it's not that hard work, but
it is. It's very difficult to add up numbers. And
you know, whereas the metric system is so easy from
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a weather forecasting point of view, and it's just like,
you know, one hundred degrees is boiling, zero degrees is freezing.
It's all very clean and easy, whereas over there the numbers, yes, uh,
thirty two degrees fahrenheyd is freezing, and you know, it
gets very confusing. But once you're in it, once you
once you're in America and you're using it. It doesn't
take very long before it all feels very normal and
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it all makes sense.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Metric versus imperial. We won't one wait, go into that
debate today. Feel done, go and look are always appreciate
your time, Enjoy the weekend.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Cheers mate, you too, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Sold that kind of weather. Watch up next, Michelle, Watch
and the Country Crossover. You're listening to the Master and
as time for the Country Crossover with Michelle Watt, executive
(21:58):
producer of the Country out of Them Even good afternoon.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
Afternoon, and and I love a bit of a Vechi.
By the way, great choice.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Women's Rugby World Cup getting underway this weekend. This is
a tournament as far as growth around the globe has
gone gangbusters.
Speaker 7 (22:13):
Oh, it's just crazy, Andy if someone who grew up
you know, I played rugby in high school and going
back to how much we fought to get a team
in high school, I remember getting a petition and taking
it to our principal to try and get us a team,
and then you know, we ended up at South Island
Tournament with a team and a lot of us girls
are still friends to this day and actually played together
in a premier team in Kitangata when we were in
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our twenties. It's fantastic to see women's rugby doing so well.
I mean there's still a lot of work to be done,
but it's really fantastic stuff. And I mean the first
World Cup was how back in nineteen ninety one. They've
had ten of them. New Zealand's won six of them.
They could make it a seventh, I think this time round,
and it's just absolutely fascinating. I mean, some are fun
facts for you here. Did you know the very first
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one Andy the Russian team had to fundraise. They fundraised
by trading booze that they brought with them and the
England team sold raffle tickets. That was back in nineteen
ninety one when they wanted their first rugby World Cup.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Here's a fact for you. You talk about that Russian
team in nineteen ninety one. There was a team from
the USSA come out to New Zealand in nineteen eighty
nine and when they came out here, they are pretty
much like the Peckham Traders. They were selling stuff in
between games to fund their trip.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
It's just it's amazing how far the game has gone,
you know, because now these top players are flowing if
you're far away from the destination. I believe they get paid,
you know, like to fly business cars now, you know.
So things have changed a lot. There's been ten Rugby
World Cups Women's won since nineteen ninety one, so things
have changed a lot. It's great to see that, and
of course the crowds have grown. It's just amazing, you know.
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The first match was three thousand people attended it at
Cardiff arms Park, and the final when USA back Canada,
and by the fifth final when England versus Verus New
Zealand and Edmonton in two thousand and six, the crowd
had doubled. By the sixth that was held in England,
it doubled again with thirteen thousand, and now for Twickenham,
they're expecting a full house of eighty two thousand watching.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
That match and they reckon they could have sold the
final out three times over.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
Oh it's insane, isn't it, you know. I mean, it's
just on the rise, and it's great to see because
you know, the statistics around women's especially youth activity for
girls is not that great around the world, so it's
great to see such a positive influence around there. And
one of the positive influences is a breakout star alonely Mayer.
If you get the chance to look her up, definitely do.
One of the most positive people I've ever seen in sport,
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in a real role model for women's sport as well.
Apparently she's going to be the biggest breakout star in
thirty years since All Black Swing Joonah Lomo. She is
the most famous player man or woman on social media
at the moment, but she is also an incredible player.
She's play center for the USA. Definitely, where's a watch?
Of course, the USA take on England. I think it's
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six thirty am at time on Sunday, so where's to watch?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
That game was on the premium and the other day Michelle.
Now this spoke just Oozer's common sense and positivity for
the rural sector. There's a lot of negatives that we
can focus on, but at the moment there's some really
cool stuff going on as well.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
Oh there's so many fantastic things and people doing such
great stuff in the egg sector. And among those, of course,
you know lots of young people. We just had the
Xander McDonald summit. Of course it got postponed because of
the massive hurricane or cyclone that hit the Gold Coast
earlier in the years. They had bestpone the summit until
just a couple of weeks ago. But absolutely amazing people.
Of course, you know, maybe Bloom very much so yeah, yeah,
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and Jack O'Connor were the winners of twenty twenty five
doing great things. And I tell you what, it's really
great to see Megan Blooms involved in aquaculture. I think
that's the first time that someone involved in that area
of the primary industry has been a finalist or a
winner within the Xander or any sort of awards. That's
great to see different areas of primary industry being recognized
for the things they're doing within it as well. But
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you know, just fantastic stuff going on within that and
we've obviously got Tim Dange and Emma Poll who are
always out there advocating for new staff, new things, and
of course technology. Young people are just you know, they're
so great with that stuff, aren't they? Young people? And
makes me feel old, But honestly, you know, we need
more use coming up through the sector to help with
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all this new stuff that's coming through and bring new
ideas up through the sector.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Well, Matt Taylor was talking about AI yesterday and the
way that it's coming to the agricultural world, and it
was fascinating to get his insight. But even last night
at the pub a quick story short, we're a space
of a board of trustees meeting, but all the blokes
turned up to the pub a week early, so we
went there and had a point instead. But anyway, I'm
talking to the one guy there, DoD Moore, in just
(26:43):
about AI, how he gets his news source from it
every morning, just wrapped up into a fifteen minute podcast,
everything he needs to know. It's unbelievable where technology is going.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
Oh, ALI is incredible, and it's been used for so
many things in the primary sector at the moment. I mean,
you know you've got I can't off the top of
my head. There's just so many ideas running around that
it's been used for. I mean, some of the stuff
we had on the show, of course, was it's being
used for safety stuff. It's being used to analyze things
with these automatic teat sprays. There's just so many uses
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within the industry for it, and I think there's still
more to come. Obviously, it's still in its early stages
where it still needs to be checked and things need
to be worked on. But you know, it's getting that
and I think it'll be fascinating to see where it
goes in the future.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
The farming world hierarchy, you reckon, there's a tall poppy
syndrome that needs addressed.
Speaker 7 (27:31):
I just feel like it's interesting with this topic. And
it came to me because we were talking about obviously
country calendar during the week with the goat farmer that
was making the cheese, and it seems like, you know,
I started asking what makes a farmer a farmer because
it seems like there's quite a bit of a rural
rural divide in this area where people seem to think that,
you know, to be a farmer, that you have to
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have five hundred cows or you know, a thousand sheep
or something like that and be you know, fully committing
to the whole role. But I don't know, A farmer
is someone who takes care of animals, looks after the
land as a custodian of the land.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
You know.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
I think somehow, I think it's got lost along the way,
and people are a little bit judgmental sometimes about people
doing new things out there.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Country calendar is an interesting one. Sometimes they do some
fantastic shows, especially when they talk about the mustering and
the high Country and the North Island. But like so,
the last week's very boutiquey for me.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
It does.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
And you think of it, you think a country calendar.
You like to think of rural stories. It's targeting an
urban audience as well. That's the thing you need to
remember about the program. I suppose.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
Yeah, it's got to target everyone and everyone's taste, and
there's a bit of something in there for everyone.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
Each week.
Speaker 7 (28:41):
I think normally it changes around, but you know, it's
interesting just to see the attitude towards the different sort
of farming. I guess types and styles and things like that,
and I think, you know, people doing new things. Top
poppy syndrome is an issue in New Zealand in general.
You know, I think that, you know, we talk about
that urban rural divide, but sometimes I think there is more.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Of a rural giral one.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Look, we'll leave it there. Michelle up the Stags and
we'll talk to you next time. Catcha Michelle Watson the
Country Crossover. Andrew Watterson is up next from New Stork
ZB and before the end of the hour, Katrina Thomas
out of South and Rural Support Trust.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
The Star comes.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Andrew Watterson out of New Stork. ZIBB joins us once
again this afternoon orders, good afternoon, straight onto the MPC.
The Stags out of nowhere to a row in the
MPC upsetting the Steamers last night.
Speaker 8 (29:48):
Look like I thought you might start there Indian and
what an appropriate place really, I mean, that's that's great
for the Stags. Awesome to see them in the reckoning
there in what moving up to seventh on the ladder
and yeah, just to think, well, crucial last try there
Michael Benison getting across and then in the seventy ninth
minutes and there you go the Seams defeated thirty twenty
(30:11):
five and what three tries a piece? A decent contest
and roder as you.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Put it on the sports headlines this morning, the Stags
are surged into seventh and that's pretty much the case,
because that's that's Gooddy Heights to where they've been over
the past couple of seasons.
Speaker 8 (30:25):
Yeah, yeah, take them into you again them, don't you.
That's that's the story and they've made them most of it.
So I think I think it'll be it's what the
goodwill story of the week so far.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
And this is where we talk about Rnfrelly shield challenges
now where Cano is going to beat the necky this weekend.
We go up to Hamilton and we steal a log
of it off the moon loose. That's how it works.
Speaker 8 (30:42):
I think there's quite a few people who plan out there,
you know itinerary on their calendil and on how to
how to nere the shield one way or another over
a year, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
It's like one of those.
Speaker 8 (30:52):
Flow charts that you work down and you know you
snow and eventually find away. So yeah, it's certainly common
prectice here in the office that's with you.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
But the big thing in the NPC is the fact
that Auckland is still on the doughnut going into the
fourth round. That's unreal shocking, isn't it.
Speaker 8 (31:07):
You know when you think of the heights that they've
come from, you know, over time, Auckham. But yeah, some
works for the end with thetphen Bates and the crew
with their Elka side the you.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
All black's the second test against Argentina Ethan the Greek
gets the nod yes again at Loose Headles though arguably
to Tom Artie Williams, he'll be just eased back into
the fold and imagine, Yeah, and.
Speaker 8 (31:28):
I think they're obviously looking for a bit of stability
there with this All Black side that they've made, I mean,
getting chiefs loose forward, some Parker debuting number eight, getting
his opportunity. I think, what the seventh All Black for
the season to debut Artie sa movie to open side.
No space for dupleska refi in the twenty three for
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that match at Bonos Aires. But yeah, so it'd be
good to see. I want to Satti back in the
reckoning as well. We're coming off the bench like Williams,
and yeah, just seeing how the All Blacks are able
to foot it with the Argentinians, who are relatively consistent
these days, as we said, and of course as they've
beaten New Zealand on those occasions in recent memory anyway,
(32:11):
but I still haven't got a win at home, so
no lack of motivation for them. Eater with a few
chases to their side too. But Scott Robinson and I
heard him speaking with my hosting this morning as well,
just saying that they were looking for that consistency, but
also just wanting to make it all about rugby over
there and trying to take the player's minds off too,
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so they're not thinking about it.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
Twenty four to seven.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
What about the Wallabes? Can they get the second w
in two weeks over the mighty box? Are we have
they found a chink in the box? Harbor?
Speaker 5 (32:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (32:42):
I just love the way that they've I mean to
come back from twenty two points, you know, and then
score thirty eight unanswered points yourself in that first match,
and in a venue like Alice Park, Andy, which is
a fairly intimidating one, just bearing down on those stands,
just that intimidation factor. I think that's a remarkable feat
(33:03):
in the Wallabies. I wonder if Rassi Rasmus, I mean,
I argue this contest over there in South Africa the
moment is more intriguing than one of the All Blacks
in Argentina in terms.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
Of the Rugby Championship.
Speaker 8 (33:16):
And you know, with Australia, the chance to win two
in a season or in a series in a year
for the first time since nineteen sixty three. Of course,
they broke the hoodoo at Alice Park. The nineteen sixty
three one last week. So yeah, I think that's that's
just a fascinating contest and what they've been able to
achieve with Joe Schmid. Of course, a couple of changes
(33:38):
this week, but Fraser mcwright's are becoming the ninety first
Australian captain with Harry Wilson out with that knee injury
and Corey Tool getting a chance to debut on the
wing in place of Dylan Peach. But I think that, yeah,
it's going to be one of the more fascinating watches.
I suppose over the course of.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
The weekend you get the feeling Joe Schmidt's leaving just
when he'shitting full stride with this team as well.
Speaker 8 (34:02):
Totally that's exactly the case I think with Leskis coming
in there. But it just feels like they've got some rhythm,
they've got some I guess ability to express themselves, some
authenticity to that team again and really coming into their
being able to express themselves on the field at center
(34:22):
and play the right style that they've been seeking for
so long. And I know that Josep's had his critics,
I mean David Campezi among them, but I think he's
senn a lot of heat and it's just a shame
they couldn't have got up more in that line series
and made it into a decider when they played that
final match.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
The A and Z Premiership. We're watching the core of
New Zealand's netballing talent being ripped right underneath that and
they're just walking away before our eyes. Are you believe
this is going to cause a lot of pain for
the sport in the long term. Man, it's hemorrhaging by
the day.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
At the moment, yeah, I think it's a bit of
a perfect storm here.
Speaker 8 (34:55):
And you to be honest, I mean, you had this
situation where Metbourne New Zealand could can get a deal
across the line with Sky Sky looking at their numbers
in Sky just this morning course coming out with the
deal with Rugby for the next five years or least
up to twenty thirty. But that's a separate issue. But
you're not being able to get across line Sky probably
arguing not enough eyeballs on screen, etc.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
And therefore players livelihoods affected.
Speaker 8 (35:20):
Press of pressure goes on Zealand from the players Association
that they want something sorted and they want that exemption
clause for the players where possible for eligibility for the
Silver Ferns, and so it goes on and all of
a sudden you've got these players going across the super
met Board Australia effectively a trains Tantament competition, but not
a trains Tansament competition that we used to have of
(35:43):
old with the AZ Championship and now yes so leaving.
And then you've got I think even Willing something this
morning and pointing out quite a valent point I thought
was that you know, it's diluting that development league as
well underneath that where players were coming through. And you've
also got so many players shuffling between franchises here.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
I mean, what the.
Speaker 8 (36:03):
Tactics with six departures, I think the Pulse with five
from their starting line up at least. I mean the
Stars picking up a media Warmsley as the latest chapter.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
Yees.
Speaker 8 (36:13):
So it's just it's an awkward watch for you. I
just wonder where that's going to go from here, is
to you know, where the netbl how Neatbill survives in
those circumstances, or how they develop, whether it becomes you know,
it's going to be hard to be a full time
professional where there's going to be haves and haves arts.
It's it's just a really yeah, a moving face if
you like, or one to want to observe and not
(36:35):
to observe any comfort. Really.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Just finally, Dame Lisa Carrington answers in this wist yet again.
Speaker 8 (36:43):
I think I saw a story where she'd been on
her first day of a holiday at Tahiti. Da Lisa,
but she's still got the peddling down pad and has
the liverbols with the K four for starters, I mean
the Olympic champions, but they've gone because without Olivia Brett
there with injury, they've gone to these Will Champson in Milan.
And then just this morning Carrington combining in the K
(37:06):
two five hundred with Tara Vaughn, they were beaten by
a a well formerly Belarusian crew. I think they're sort
of independent athletes these days. But making it through the
semi finals nonetheless, but just taking that K four through.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
To the final again alone is enough.
Speaker 8 (37:22):
But yeah, Carrington just imbuing that power and that grace
that we know she provide, and I guess just that
Marner as well, just that we know she just brings
to the boat. And I think when she's on the
start line. It's probably intimidating enough.
Speaker 5 (37:35):
For any opposent.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Absolutely. Just finally, how things going on the South Aakland farm.
Speaker 8 (37:41):
Yeah, pretty good, well, sales being what they are with
steers and the like. At the moment, Andy, the numbers
are just through the roofs. So yeah, we're just yeah
lining up, you know, a wishless you know, Dear Santa.
It's just it's been quite remarkable on that front. We're
getting rid of a few hay bales who out of
the barn. That's been good pocket money. You know, I
(38:02):
can't argue with that.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
You're still selling that hate of those pet stores for
good Molah.
Speaker 8 (38:08):
That's right, that's right, that's our little secret. And you
just people coming in. We've we've been we've we've been
selling with a firewood too, just keeping cottage industry going
out there so you can't complain.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Talk about the versification and the rural sector, rulers, that's
what you're all about. Always appreciate your time, enjoying the weekend.
Speaker 8 (38:24):
Absolutely heads off to trade me.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Andrew Orderson out do Zivy. He's a good sport. Before
we wrap up for the week, Katrina Thomas out of
the South and Ural Support Trust. Welcome back to the muster.
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Katrina Thomas joins us the South and Rural Support Trusts.
Brunch on Us events kick off next week just to
give people bit of an idea of where these are occurring,
A good chance to take a brain, to take a break. Yeah,
I was going to say a brain, but to break
off the farm. There's probably a better terminology. I could
train a good afternoon house siggs.
Speaker 9 (39:11):
Oh hi, Andy, I can't complain about the weather. I
know farmers loved to complain about the weather, but the
weather has been amazing. We've had one week earlier in
the week you know mud mud MUDs and those carbs
well we couldn't even tell what breed and brand they
were at one point. But can't complain, can't complain. But
we're very excited to be bringing out Brunch on Us again.
(39:34):
This has actually gone nationwide and it was initiated with
a support of FMG, but I've had loads and loads
of others come on board nationally and regionally to put
this together, the Brunch on Us and now we've done
it over there is probably about our third year. So
what it is, it's just an opportunity to get together.
Speaker 8 (39:56):
We've picked seven.
Speaker 9 (39:57):
Locations across Southland and it's there's a chance to meet
upsit of between ten thirty and one o'clock and over
the barbecue come and have you know, eggs and bread
and some sausages and the biggs you can count. You
can come and get a real coffee. Ending need a
real coffee when you get off farm, don't you.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
You just made a break and it's a busy time.
That's all the boils down.
Speaker 9 (40:22):
To pretty much. That's another little incentive that we've got
the coffee chats coming. So to roll out. We start
next week on Wednesday the twenty seventh at Gorge Road
at the Good Road Country Club. Then we moved to
Riversdale at the Rugby Club on the Friday, the twenty ninth,
then across to a Tardewe at Farm Source on Tuesday
(40:43):
the second, Lumston the following Thursday, Clifton on the Tuesday.
Then we're going to pop up to Tiana to the
Rugby Club. So baby Clifton is the golf club. Don't worry,
you don't need to remember all these you'll be able
to look up the South and Ruin Sport Trust Facebook
page and the World Support Trust website. We've got Lumsdon, Clifton,
(41:05):
Tian Now and then we finish up in Glenham because
apparently the Glenham ones have a little regular gig on
a Friday over. I think it's meg Cow Coffee for there.
The biggie is farmers anyone associated with farming anyway, said
of farming, Bring the team, bring the neighbors. We've got
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fatther support, like I see from lots of rural professionals
and those businesses. They're going to be there. So if
you want to have a fresh conversation or a free
conversation and not get charged, you know, we'll have lots
and lots of representatives. We've also got some of the
farm advisory guys coming as well from farm Wise and
egg First and stuff like that to get some free advice.
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Ask you know, what else could they be doing at
this time of the time of the year, and just
just chats can catch up with others. But I know
it can never be perfect on farm. Like we've had
our ups and downs, you know, perfect Patty was telling me,
you know, just little things like we've cultivated and you know,
(42:10):
the hes got a little bit cars, so they're going
to sort of pull them out of those weird gaps.
They don't used to have them to sheet but you know,
Cheltic cart things happen, and but talk to others. Others
will have solutions. You know you, I'm sure when you
were farming Andy used to yarn to others about what
was happening.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Of course you did. It's all about connecting, that's what
you did.
Speaker 5 (42:33):
It is.
Speaker 9 (42:33):
So look, we're really really excited to bring these to
Southland starting next Wednesday right through until September ten thirty
to one. Like I said, go to the south and
Real Sport Trust Facebook page, or go to the website
Real Support Trust Google that if you just talk about
the website, We're going to Furma. This new website Frontira
(42:55):
Paige for that, which was fantastic, lots amazing loads of
information on each of the regions throughout the country. And
then we've got a whole events page on there so
you also see what other things are coming up within
the region, what's technic nationwide and if you've got friends
further up country, you'll be able to see if there's
a brunch on us and they're part of the world.
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Nicod winds as well and encouraged encourage them to go.
But oh yeah, I got say they feeling about me.
I'm feeling exhausted. We're about halfway through. The heapers are coming,
the beefes are coming. The beefes are moving on, thank goodness.
So that's great to see them be raised and not
being killed.
Speaker 8 (43:34):
Until later on.
Speaker 9 (43:36):
Yeah, first world problems about the weather. I can't really
like to see. You can't complain, so put it in
your diary.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
Get off absolutely, Trina. You enjoy the weekend. Always appreciate
your time.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Hey, And just on a final.
Speaker 9 (43:51):
Note, oh my god, how impressed I was with the
stags last night.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
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Friday afternoon and the sun's out. We're catching up in
Nathan Abernethy had a regional Ford like we do every
Friday here on the Muster Giday. Nathan.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah, good afternoon, Andy, not a bad one it is either,
is it? The day's quite nice. Nice to be working outside,
and everything nice and tidy out on the yard, that's
for sure. There's plenty happening at the moment. Andy, It's
incredibly busy, I've got to say, which is really good.
We're pretty happy about that. Lots and lots of new
ones going out and plenty still to arrive, plenty of
used vehicles. We've got no shortage of US vehicles. Probably
(00:30):
a lot more passenger at the moment than what we'd
often have, and that's great because we're often short of it.
Things like SUV's like Ford Everest and Ford Escape and
Toda Rev four and Tooa Prado and Mixubushi Outband. There's
all those sorts of things that people have sort of
perhaps moved away from the typical old four door car
of years ago into more of your SUV's type family vehicle.
(00:51):
So lots and lots of those coming through also, just
in the last few days, we've just had come in
a two thy and nineteen Ford L Raptor. This is
a bright red one with canopy, really really nice vehicle,
traveled about one hundred and twenty thousand k's by a
couple of owners. Now, these Raptors are amazing vehicles. They've
got the really neat suspension, they go amazingly well, they've
(01:14):
just got a bit of a stance about them. That
the truck's a bit different to a normal truck. It's
a leave bit wider than what a normal ranger is
and that truck's going to go on in the yard here
today for forty nine nine ninety including GST. But there's
plenty of other options if you're thinking about doing something.
We do have a lot of high lucks coming through
at the moment. So yeah, if there's anybody out there
wanting to come and have a look at our range
(01:35):
of toyatos, come in and talk to us and we'll
show you around those as well as just don't forget
finance these days. Andy's a huge part of what we
do and a lot of cases, you know, if people
are one wanting to free up money and you are
paying off your vehicle or you own your vehicle. It
is a way that we can free up some money
for you and pay you out and just take a
bit of a loan against your car. Well, the other
(01:57):
thing we're finding at the moment, if somebody's wanting to
do something then they're paying off their vehicle. We can
actually go and revisit that, and particularly now the way
interest rates have come down quite a lot of andy
over the last year. So if you bought a car
preps anywhere over the last few years, it could be
anywhere in New Zeon and finance through anyone. Cody can
look at it for you now at better interest rates
(02:17):
and things, we can redo your finance for you and
hopefully bring those payments down. So just keep that in mind.
It's something we're doing a lot of So pack up
the phone and give us a call if there's anything
we can do. As always, we'll be here until just
after five, and we're here on Saturday morning. As always,
anything we can do at all, we'd be only too
happy to help.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Good on your chat next time.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Thanks Andy, good afternoon, and welcome to the muster on Hockni.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I'm dy We are here until two o'clock. Thanks of
Peters genetics. Welcome alive to Friay. Blue sky with sunshine
coming down, a little bit of cloud on the horizon,
but overall not looking too bad for the end of
the working week, although that means nothing on the farm obviously.
And yeah, this blue sky makes a mood a bit better.
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Z great this great song. This it's called levels Coincidentally,
the weather forecast we have Friday cloudy. You have come
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have come variable winds minus one and twelve. Sunday sunny
with variable winds zero and thirteen. Monday partly cloudy with
variable winds four and two and fourteen, and Tuesday partly cloudy.
(03:57):
Were like northerlies five and fifteen. As we start the
show with Matt McCrae farming at Mocareta, followed up by
Phil Duncan out of weather Watch giving an update on
the weather for the next seven days down here in
the South. As we start to see signs of spring
in the year. Michelle Watt joins US for the Country Crossover,
Andrew Aldison out of News Talk ZVB. The All Blacks
(04:19):
team has been named to play the Arg's in the
second Test on Sunday morning, and as well the Wallabies
with the unexpected win over the spring Box last weekend,
and what happens next for the Wallabies, are we able
to do the double over the world champion South Africans
and Katrina Thomas out of Southern Ural Support Trust finishes
(04:39):
off the hour. But an interesting morning here, especially with
Fontierra selling their consumer arm to French company lack Tallis
for three point eight billion dollars. This is still to
go through and be ratified obviously, but they're targeting as
well the co op a tax free capital return of
two dollars per year from the sale. So that's a
(04:59):
good new Already talk about Fontera, you talk about Open
Countries acquisition of Matara Valley Milk, and just like Jamie
alluded to on the text machine before the Castle Rocks
sailed this morning yielding beef stairs going for over seven
dollars a kilo live weight. That's good coin. So we'll
start the hour now with Matt McCrae. You're listening to
the musterro on Hakanui. Thanks for Peters genetics.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
In this life.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Your feet await a mica rata this afternoon on the muster.
Matt McCrae farms out there catches up with us on
a regular basis. Good afternoon ground conditions out there, Matt.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Are they holding up the afternoon? Andy? Yep, she's another
day in paradise today, so got to weave it wet
earlier there in the weight, which probably had to wear
my leaguing for the first time. Two days in a row.
We'll winter. But yeah, we're back on top of the
ground now, which is good.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Two days in a row and it doesn't happen till
near the end of August. That's outstanding. Really.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Yeah, it's been a pretty corn winter, hasn't it. Yeah,
we'll take it. And things are laughing. I'm pretty much
set up heading into Lemming and ten those times. Yeah, Actually,
long mat continued.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
So you've got a good pick of feet on the padish.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Yeah, that's good. That's good. We've certainly used a bit
through the winter and utilization has been good. But the
crops were probably back slightly, and so yeah, corn winter
has been offset by crops being back awey bit. But yeah,
we're about where we'd like to be the soccer and
good condition and they'll get spread out next week on Yeah,
all right covers but certainly yeah, hopefully we can septembers
(06:47):
off set. That would be what we're after.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
No issues, the bearings of the likes.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
I shouldn't say too much anty that's good. We haven't yet,
but yeah, I haven't yet. We're used but of meg
and I don't know it helps or not. But yeah,
generally when you spread out, you know, I'm run under
the issue slot that well I might see, but yeah,
hopefully not. We don't generally get a whole lot here
be along made that continue.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Well, if putting meg, using meg or whatever works for you,
then I go away from a winning formula.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Right.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Yeah, it's probably an unproven theory, but I just like
a couple of weeks before we sit stock us a
bit of meg oxide.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
It's pretty cheap.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
And seems to works. Yeah, it's it's just probably something
I do routinely now and then. But they're once you
just sit stock, there's not much you can do to
get meg into them. So yeah, for the best I suppose.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Matt the proposal for the Alliance Meat Company with the
restructure involving Dawn Meats. You're a supplier to the co op.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
What do you make of it?
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Yeah, it's a wait and see approach for me, and
I appreciate the position that they're after a few years
a bad performance as.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
The devil will be in the detail and what they
bring out in the next month and what they have
to send their road show meetings. But either way, it's
going to be a fairly tough decision to make, and
it'll need to be an informed decision to sell off
a majority share in your company, isn't it. So Yeah,
a lot of the detail around what the shoe is
are going to be worse and how that forty million
(08:25):
dollars slush fund gets divvied out will probably be the
basis of their decision. Anyway, As a shoeholder, are.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You going to give it your tack of approval?
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Let's wait and see. To be fair, I can see
what people would vote either way for it, But like
I say, I'm probably sitting on the fence. What we'll
I'll vote myself. I think I vote yeses, but like
I guess and your sister, in a way it would
have been would have been nicest if these issues are
fixed before it got to the stage. But yeah, it's
(08:59):
I guess off is probably in the best interests of
the company. But what question is if it's in the
best interest of shareholders and and I guess for the
long term industry structure as well. If it goes ahead
of we're just prolonging the problem for another four or
seven years to the next company goes.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Do you've believe there's no Plan B in place? Well,
it's more least a case. If you don't do this,
then what's the what's the worst case scenario? Possibly you
don't know, Yeah, and.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Not when I lived to that, but in his presentation
last week that the banks are in control of if
we do both know, But yeah, like you say, it
does make you wonder what the other options are. And yeah,
who's wanting to invest in their understand Why are people
wanting to throw that amount of money at it when
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our own farmers aren't. What do they see that we
don't And and yeah, where that value is then going
to end up? Yeah, like I said, it raises a
lot of questions for me On, I've got a fear
old listen here to hit the directors with when they
get the opportunity, and yeah, just so we can make
that informed decision. Well, hopefully, what's going to be benefit
(10:14):
for the next twenty thirty years of Simon career?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Do you bind the talk around better access towards the EU? I?
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Yeah, it surprised me that because we get told that
we have pretty good access in there already. Yeah, that's
probably not of as a concern for me, but they
obviously got their eye on some of their markets. Does
that have a value? It obviously does, but is it
of enough value? I guess it's been up to the negotiators.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
When you're talking to other farmers and your mates who
are involved with the co op as well, what are
their thoughts?
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Yeah, it seems to be, but Max, I guess people
are just reasonably happy with the product prices at the moment.
But if I'm perfectly honest, there's.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Not a lot of.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
To this and Alliance sholders of surprise around us anymore,
like people are fairy well split. So yeah, she has
probably changed for Alliance in South and non asuming and
a lot of people are going through third party now,
but the ones that are really much a lot of
them put faith and directors and that this is the
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best decisions and vote yes, and others will probably sit
back and have a few questions for them. Yeah, time
will tell, But we're done on the directors for getting
an offer, I suppose, and a pretty challenging a pretty
challenging time for the meat industry. But as we bounce up,
it does make you wonder whether or not we could
have got more for having this conversation trave months down
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the track.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Arguably the sector is doing well of the prices and
that just flows through to people's mind process at the
moment too.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Possibly, Yeah, exactly, And it'd be fascinating to see an
article on Farmers Weekly the other day about whether or
not the vote was after the AGM and see how
see the financials around how this year was tressing, getting
told it's been pretty good, and I think for a
few people it's probably the surprise that sixty five percent
was up for sale when we've been told that all
(12:13):
ancestressing pretty good. So yeah, lock, So there'll bet there'll
be lots more information than it comes out in the
next month. And I just hope they don't have the
roadshow meetings and while people are still busy gamings. Yeah, yeah,
I guess I'd disencourage anyone that does have shareholders that
as a shareholder with a supplier or not to get
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involved and ask the questions because the more informed we are,
the more we can make a decision and move on.
Isn't it?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Did you have twenty dollars on the Stags on the
nose last night? By chance?
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Matt, No, I shouldn't. I didn't, I should say, but
I am I should have. They actually played buddy good footy. Yeah,
good to see it was downing off aof a humble
by after sitting Yes, I'm sitting there last week and
they are down twenty two a half time riding them off.
But yeah, amazing, what a what a game it was,
(13:07):
And there's some good signs of progress here, which is
good to say.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
James Wilson came out earlier in the week with a
couple of bizarre comments in my opinion, but nonetheless, look
as far as the Stags and their performance last night,
nothing but at w and Michael Manson, geez, you can't
buy pace, that's one thing.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Yeah, it's good, isn't it? And yeah, I do agree
as if as a Southern traditionalist at heart, it would
have been good to see some of those the one
boys out of the country team going there and give
a crash. I understand they're not conditioned, but yeah, I'll
get James Wilson out doing it down the farm or
in the in the real world and Irish and that would.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Slot on.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
They're pretty good to be.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Fair, Zerrikroi was quoted once, if you to be an MP,
you need to do a day in the snow in
the middle of September on the Southern lambing beeat do
you go?
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Yeah? Yeah, Hopefully those guys, those country gods that are
sporing to to that next level, do get the opportunity
when they when arises.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yes, Matt McCrae, always appreciate your time and the muster.
Enjoy the weekend by goody, need.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
You to Thursday Waiting from Wait Matt McCrae of Mocar
reader all the yems on a Friday afternoon, full Duncle
from weather Watch gives us a rundown in the weather
for the next seven days here in the South.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
He's up next.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
I'll be wait.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
It is time to catch up with Phil Duncan from
weather Watch. I found the right button eventually, Phil Duncan,
(15:08):
Good afternoon, how things nice work?
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Yeah, very good.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Thanks.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Good to be back with you again. On a beautiful
end to the week.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
This weather has been pretty settled over the last few
days here in the South. I've got cooler over the weekend.
Snow was experienced down to a couple of hundred meters
in places, feel Duncan, Are we seeing anything over the
next seven days to be aware of?
Speaker 6 (15:29):
I tell you what, if I look at the next
seven to ten days, looking just at the temperatures, it
looks to me like we are sliding out of winter
and sliding into early spring. That's what it looks like,
because you're still getting cold nights, especially tonight and tomorrow night.
There'll be minus twos, minus three's minus fours around northern Southland.
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So some good frosts over the next couple of mornings.
But then if we go into Sunday Monday, we're sort
of creeping up above zero, and as we go through
next week, the overnight load's got four or five even
eight degrees, and then they do drop back again, but
only to two or three, So it's still kind of
cold at night, but not that bad. And the daytime
highs twelve degrees or so today Thursday or fourteen by
(16:13):
the time we get to Sunday Monday, and then next
week for a time fifteens and sixteen seventeen, maybe possible
by next Wednesday. Before next weekend things get colder again.
So what I look for when we go out of
winter and go into spring from a weather forecasting point
of view, is seeing these little like peaks in the map.
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So whether that's a peak of temperatures where it goes
up into the mid to upper teams, or it's a
lack of frost for a period of time, or maybe
it's a peak of windy weather. And so those are
the things we're looking for to identify a spring weather pattern.
And when that turns up it changes every year, but
it does look a little bit spring like, I've got
(16:54):
to admit coming up over the next week or so,
as we start to get more west he's back in
the week forecast.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
So is it going to be a short, sharp blast.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
It looks I wouldn't say sharp, it looks like well,
basically at the moment where we're going to see two
different things. At the moment, We've got a really powerful
high pressure zone ten thirty eight ten forty hector pascals
moving smackdang over the top of the South Island. So
that is, you know, when the air pressure is that
high and is using its elbows to push away any
(17:24):
kind of wet weather. So we don't really have anything
significant apart from isolated showers. That high is really in
control of our weather. But you fast forward seven days,
that gigantic area of high pressure is replaced by an
even larger area of low pressure. And it's not just
one big low, it's four or five lows that all
kind of merged together. And so when they're big. When
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a low is big like that, the weather is not
always severe, but it does usually mean days of showers
in the forecast. And I do see an uptick and
westerly winds, so temperatures going up westerly is coming in
low pressure increasing. That's usually a bit of a sign
that maybe we might be changing seasons, although I'm always
nervous saying that, but talking to people in Southland because it's.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Been reasonably settled and people we've talked about this before,
being concerned about what September holds, but you reckon. We
just need to put every season into perspective.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Every season is different, every season is unique. And even
though we do have a sort of a general time
of the year when our seasons change, because we're two
mountainous islands all out at sea on our own, things
can change very quickly. It's just the placement of high pressure.
So if high pressure is parked west of us, we're
more likely to have southerlyes, If high pressure is north
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of us, we're more likely to have westerlies, and if
high pressure is east of us, we're more likely to
have a warmer airflow. So these placement of high pressure
can can alter our weather pattern for half a month
at a time, and so that's the reason why our
seasons have different dates every year when you kind of
feel that season changing. But what we're looking for for
(19:01):
September a little bit hard to lock in just yet,
but I know that we're almost there. But basically that's
because we've been in a neutral weather pattern for the
last year and a half and so we're having all
sorts of things thrown at us, but not necessarily a
lot of severe weather. And what I'm looking for. Is
is that westerly change coming next week with all that
low pressure. Is that it's a sign of the spring
(19:24):
westerly is arriving or is it just a blip in
the winter where the pattern that where we've been under.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
So do you know the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth?
What do you reckon?
Speaker 6 (19:33):
It was phil as in the shade or in the sun.
In the sun, Oh, I'm guessing quite possibly one hundred
degrees celsius. Maybe not quite that hot.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Right, fifty six point seven degrees in Death Valley in
nineteen thirteen.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
That'll be in the shade. Temperatures are usually done in
the shade about a meter above the ground. I've been
to Death Valley. I was in Death Valley in October
a few years ago, which is octop is their start
of autumn, so it's kind of like our March and
or mark Yere March April our men. And it was
thirty one degrees celsius. And on a day we had
(20:11):
a frost that morning where we left only just down
the road, so that'd be like waking up in Queenstown
with a frost and then driving to Alexandra and it's
thirty degrees an hour and a half later. It was
quite surreal. That made you think, gosh, what's it like
there in the middle of summer.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I always remember looking at the weather forecasts when I
was a young feller for America, and I couldn't understand
how they just live in one hundred degrees, not being
aware of fahrenheit versus celsius, and I just thought Americans
are just weird full stop, if they could live in
a hundred degrees.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
I still find it hard getting my head around the
fahrenheit feet inches. You know, my parents obviously they measured
in inches and feet when they were younger, and so
like that for them, it's not that hard work, but
it is. It's very difficult to add up numbers. And
you know, whereas the metric system is so easy from
(21:02):
a weather forecasting point of view, and it's just like,
you know, one hundred degrees is boiling, zero degrees is freezing.
It's all very clean and easy, whereas over there the numbers, yes, uh,
thirty two degrees fahrenheyd is freezing, and you know, it
gets very confusing. But once you're in it, once you
once you're in America and you're using it. It doesn't
take very long before it all feels very normal and
(21:23):
it all makes sense.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Metric versus imperial. We won't one wait, go into that
debate today. Feel done, go and look are always appreciate
your time, Enjoy the weekend.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Cheers mate, you too, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Sold that kind of weather. Watch up next, Michelle, Watch
and the Country Crossover. You're listening to the Master and
as time for the Country Crossover with Michelle Watt, executive
(21:58):
producer of the Country out of Them Even good afternoon.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
Afternoon, and and I love a bit of a Vechi.
By the way, great choice.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Women's Rugby World Cup getting underway this weekend. This is
a tournament as far as growth around the globe has
gone gangbusters.
Speaker 7 (22:13):
Oh, it's just crazy, Andy if someone who grew up
you know, I played rugby in high school and going
back to how much we fought to get a team
in high school, I remember getting a petition and taking
it to our principal to try and get us a team,
and then you know, we ended up at South Island
Tournament with a team and a lot of us girls
are still friends to this day and actually played together
in a premier team in Kitangata when we were in
(22:36):
our twenties. It's fantastic to see women's rugby doing so well.
I mean there's still a lot of work to be done,
but it's really fantastic stuff. And I mean the first
World Cup was how back in nineteen ninety one. They've
had ten of them. New Zealand's won six of them.
They could make it a seventh, I think this time round,
and it's just absolutely fascinating. I mean, some are fun
facts for you here. Did you know the very first
(22:57):
one Andy the Russian team had to fundraise. They fundraised
by trading booze that they brought with them and the
England team sold raffle tickets. That was back in nineteen
ninety one when they wanted their first rugby World Cup.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Here's a fact for you. You talk about that Russian
team in nineteen ninety one. There was a team from
the USSA come out to New Zealand in nineteen eighty
nine and when they came out here, they are pretty
much like the Peckham Traders. They were selling stuff in
between games to fund their trip.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
It's just it's amazing how far the game has gone,
you know, because now these top players are flowing if
you're far away from the destination. I believe they get paid,
you know, like to fly business cars now, you know.
So things have changed a lot. There's been ten Rugby
World Cups Women's won since nineteen ninety one, so things
have changed a lot. It's great to see that, and
of course the crowds have grown. It's just amazing, you know.
(23:47):
The first match was three thousand people attended it at
Cardiff arms Park, and the final when USA back Canada,
and by the fifth final when England versus Verus New
Zealand and Edmonton in two thousand and six, the crowd
had doubled. By the sixth that was held in England,
it doubled again with thirteen thousand, and now for Twickenham,
they're expecting a full house of eighty two thousand watching.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
That match and they reckon they could have sold the
final out three times over.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
Oh it's insane, isn't it, you know. I mean, it's
just on the rise, and it's great to see because
you know, the statistics around women's especially youth activity for
girls is not that great around the world, so it's
great to see such a positive influence around there. And
one of the positive influences is a breakout star alonely Mayer.
If you get the chance to look her up, definitely do.
One of the most positive people I've ever seen in sport,
(24:34):
in a real role model for women's sport as well.
Apparently she's going to be the biggest breakout star in
thirty years since All Black Swing Joonah Lomo. She is
the most famous player man or woman on social media
at the moment, but she is also an incredible player.
She's play center for the USA. Definitely, where's a watch?
Of course, the USA take on England. I think it's
(24:55):
six thirty am at time on Sunday, so where's to watch?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
That game was on the premium and the other day Michelle.
Now this spoke just Oozer's common sense and positivity for
the rural sector. There's a lot of negatives that we
can focus on, but at the moment there's some really
cool stuff going on as well.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
Oh there's so many fantastic things and people doing such
great stuff in the egg sector. And among those, of course,
you know lots of young people. We just had the
Xander McDonald summit. Of course it got postponed because of
the massive hurricane or cyclone that hit the Gold Coast
earlier in the years. They had bestpone the summit until
just a couple of weeks ago. But absolutely amazing people.
Of course, you know, maybe Bloom very much so yeah, yeah,
(25:35):
and Jack O'Connor were the winners of twenty twenty five
doing great things. And I tell you what, it's really
great to see Megan Blooms involved in aquaculture. I think
that's the first time that someone involved in that area
of the primary industry has been a finalist or a
winner within the Xander or any sort of awards. That's
great to see different areas of primary industry being recognized
for the things they're doing within it as well. But
(25:57):
you know, just fantastic stuff going on within that and
we've obviously got Tim Dange and Emma Poll who are
always out there advocating for new staff, new things, and
of course technology. Young people are just you know, they're
so great with that stuff, aren't they? Young people? And
makes me feel old, But honestly, you know, we need
more use coming up through the sector to help with
(26:17):
all this new stuff that's coming through and bring new
ideas up through the sector.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Well, Matt Taylor was talking about AI yesterday and the
way that it's coming to the agricultural world, and it
was fascinating to get his insight. But even last night
at the pub a quick story short, we're a space
of a board of trustees meeting, but all the blokes
turned up to the pub a week early, so we
went there and had a point instead. But anyway, I'm
talking to the one guy there, DoD Moore, in just
(26:43):
about AI, how he gets his news source from it
every morning, just wrapped up into a fifteen minute podcast,
everything he needs to know. It's unbelievable where technology is going.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
Oh, ALI is incredible, and it's been used for so
many things in the primary sector at the moment. I mean,
you know you've got I can't off the top of
my head. There's just so many ideas running around that
it's been used for. I mean, some of the stuff
we had on the show, of course, was it's being
used for safety stuff. It's being used to analyze things
with these automatic teat sprays. There's just so many uses
(27:13):
within the industry for it, and I think there's still
more to come. Obviously, it's still in its early stages
where it still needs to be checked and things need
to be worked on. But you know, it's getting that
and I think it'll be fascinating to see where it
goes in the future.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
The farming world hierarchy, you reckon, there's a tall poppy
syndrome that needs addressed.
Speaker 7 (27:31):
I just feel like it's interesting with this topic. And
it came to me because we were talking about obviously
country calendar during the week with the goat farmer that
was making the cheese, and it seems like, you know,
I started asking what makes a farmer a farmer because
it seems like there's quite a bit of a rural
rural divide in this area where people seem to think that,
you know, to be a farmer, that you have to
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have five hundred cows or you know, a thousand sheep
or something like that and be you know, fully committing
to the whole role. But I don't know, A farmer
is someone who takes care of animals, looks after the
land as a custodian of the land.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
You know.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
I think somehow, I think it's got lost along the way,
and people are a little bit judgmental sometimes about people
doing new things out there.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Country calendar is an interesting one. Sometimes they do some
fantastic shows, especially when they talk about the mustering and
the high Country and the North Island. But like so,
the last week's very boutiquey for me.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
It does.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
And you think of it, you think a country calendar.
You like to think of rural stories. It's targeting an
urban audience as well. That's the thing you need to
remember about the program. I suppose.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
Yeah, it's got to target everyone and everyone's taste, and
there's a bit of something in there for everyone.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
Each week.
Speaker 7 (28:41):
I think normally it changes around, but you know, it's
interesting just to see the attitude towards the different sort
of farming. I guess types and styles and things like that,
and I think, you know, people doing new things. Top
poppy syndrome is an issue in New Zealand in general.
You know, I think that, you know, we talk about
that urban rural divide, but sometimes I think there is more.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Of a rural giral one.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Look, we'll leave it there. Michelle up the Stags and
we'll talk to you next time. Catcha Michelle Watson the
Country Crossover. Andrew Watterson is up next from New Stork
ZB and before the end of the hour, Katrina Thomas
out of South and Rural Support Trust.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
The Star comes.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Andrew Watterson out of New Stork. ZIBB joins us once
again this afternoon orders, good afternoon, straight onto the MPC.
The Stags out of nowhere to a row in the
MPC upsetting the Steamers last night.
Speaker 8 (29:48):
Look like I thought you might start there Indian and
what an appropriate place really, I mean, that's that's great
for the Stags. Awesome to see them in the reckoning
there in what moving up to seventh on the ladder
and yeah, just to think, well, crucial last try there
Michael Benison getting across and then in the seventy ninth
minutes and there you go the Seams defeated thirty twenty
(30:11):
five and what three tries a piece? A decent contest
and roder as you.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Put it on the sports headlines this morning, the Stags
are surged into seventh and that's pretty much the case,
because that's that's Gooddy Heights to where they've been over
the past couple of seasons.
Speaker 8 (30:25):
Yeah, yeah, take them into you again them, don't you.
That's that's the story and they've made them most of it.
So I think I think it'll be it's what the
goodwill story of the week so far.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
And this is where we talk about Rnfrelly shield challenges
now where Cano is going to beat the necky this weekend.
We go up to Hamilton and we steal a log
of it off the moon loose. That's how it works.
Speaker 8 (30:42):
I think there's quite a few people who plan out there,
you know itinerary on their calendil and on how to
how to nere the shield one way or another over
a year, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
It's like one of those.
Speaker 8 (30:52):
Flow charts that you work down and you know you
snow and eventually find away. So yeah, it's certainly common
prectice here in the office that's with you.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
But the big thing in the NPC is the fact
that Auckland is still on the doughnut going into the
fourth round. That's unreal shocking, isn't it.
Speaker 8 (31:07):
You know when you think of the heights that they've
come from, you know, over time, Auckham. But yeah, some
works for the end with thetphen Bates and the crew
with their Elka side the you.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
All black's the second test against Argentina Ethan the Greek
gets the nod yes again at Loose Headles though arguably
to Tom Artie Williams, he'll be just eased back into
the fold and imagine, Yeah, and.
Speaker 8 (31:28):
I think they're obviously looking for a bit of stability
there with this All Black side that they've made, I mean,
getting chiefs loose forward, some Parker debuting number eight, getting
his opportunity. I think, what the seventh All Black for
the season to debut Artie sa movie to open side.
No space for dupleska refi in the twenty three for
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that match at Bonos Aires. But yeah, so it'd be
good to see. I want to Satti back in the
reckoning as well. We're coming off the bench like Williams,
and yeah, just seeing how the All Blacks are able
to foot it with the Argentinians, who are relatively consistent
these days, as we said, and of course as they've
beaten New Zealand on those occasions in recent memory anyway,
(32:11):
but I still haven't got a win at home, so
no lack of motivation for them. Eater with a few
chases to their side too. But Scott Robinson and I
heard him speaking with my hosting this morning as well,
just saying that they were looking for that consistency, but
also just wanting to make it all about rugby over
there and trying to take the player's minds off too,
(32:31):
so they're not thinking about it.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
Twenty four to seven.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
What about the Wallabes? Can they get the second w
in two weeks over the mighty box? Are we have
they found a chink in the box? Harbor?
Speaker 5 (32:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (32:42):
I just love the way that they've I mean to
come back from twenty two points, you know, and then
score thirty eight unanswered points yourself in that first match,
and in a venue like Alice Park, Andy, which is
a fairly intimidating one, just bearing down on those stands,
just that intimidation factor. I think that's a remarkable feat
(33:03):
in the Wallabies. I wonder if Rassi Rasmus, I mean,
I argue this contest over there in South Africa the
moment is more intriguing than one of the All Blacks
in Argentina in terms.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
Of the Rugby Championship.
Speaker 8 (33:16):
And you know, with Australia, the chance to win two
in a season or in a series in a year
for the first time since nineteen sixty three. Of course,
they broke the hoodoo at Alice Park. The nineteen sixty
three one last week. So yeah, I think that's that's
just a fascinating contest and what they've been able to
achieve with Joe Schmid. Of course, a couple of changes
(33:38):
this week, but Fraser mcwright's are becoming the ninety first
Australian captain with Harry Wilson out with that knee injury
and Corey Tool getting a chance to debut on the
wing in place of Dylan Peach. But I think that, yeah,
it's going to be one of the more fascinating watches.
I suppose over the course of.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
The weekend you get the feeling Joe Schmidt's leaving just
when he'shitting full stride with this team as well.
Speaker 8 (34:02):
Totally that's exactly the case I think with Leskis coming
in there. But it just feels like they've got some rhythm,
they've got some I guess ability to express themselves, some
authenticity to that team again and really coming into their
being able to express themselves on the field at center
(34:22):
and play the right style that they've been seeking for
so long. And I know that Josep's had his critics,
I mean David Campezi among them, but I think he's
senn a lot of heat and it's just a shame
they couldn't have got up more in that line series
and made it into a decider when they played that
final match.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
The A and Z Premiership. We're watching the core of
New Zealand's netballing talent being ripped right underneath that and
they're just walking away before our eyes. Are you believe
this is going to cause a lot of pain for
the sport in the long term. Man, it's hemorrhaging by
the day.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
At the moment, yeah, I think it's a bit of
a perfect storm here.
Speaker 8 (34:55):
And you to be honest, I mean, you had this
situation where Metbourne New Zealand could can get a deal
across the line with Sky Sky looking at their numbers
in Sky just this morning course coming out with the
deal with Rugby for the next five years or least
up to twenty thirty. But that's a separate issue. But
you're not being able to get across line Sky probably
arguing not enough eyeballs on screen, etc.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
And therefore players livelihoods affected.
Speaker 8 (35:20):
Press of pressure goes on Zealand from the players Association
that they want something sorted and they want that exemption
clause for the players where possible for eligibility for the
Silver Ferns, and so it goes on and all of
a sudden you've got these players going across the super
met Board Australia effectively a trains Tantament competition, but not
a trains Tansament competition that we used to have of
(35:43):
old with the AZ Championship and now yes so leaving.
And then you've got I think even Willing something this
morning and pointing out quite a valent point I thought
was that you know, it's diluting that development league as
well underneath that where players were coming through. And you've
also got so many players shuffling between franchises here.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
I mean, what the.
Speaker 8 (36:03):
Tactics with six departures, I think the Pulse with five
from their starting line up at least. I mean the
Stars picking up a media Warmsley as the latest chapter.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
Yees.
Speaker 8 (36:13):
So it's just it's an awkward watch for you. I
just wonder where that's going to go from here, is
to you know, where the netbl how Neatbill survives in
those circumstances, or how they develop, whether it becomes you know,
it's going to be hard to be a full time
professional where there's going to be haves and haves arts.
It's it's just a really yeah, a moving face if
you like, or one to want to observe and not
(36:35):
to observe any comfort. Really.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Just finally, Dame Lisa Carrington answers in this wist yet again.
Speaker 8 (36:43):
I think I saw a story where she'd been on
her first day of a holiday at Tahiti. Da Lisa,
but she's still got the peddling down pad and has
the liverbols with the K four for starters, I mean
the Olympic champions, but they've gone because without Olivia Brett
there with injury, they've gone to these Will Champson in Milan.
And then just this morning Carrington combining in the K
(37:06):
two five hundred with Tara Vaughn, they were beaten by
a a well formerly Belarusian crew. I think they're sort
of independent athletes these days. But making it through the
semi finals nonetheless, but just taking that K four through.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
To the final again alone is enough.
Speaker 8 (37:22):
But yeah, Carrington just imbuing that power and that grace
that we know she provide, and I guess just that
Marner as well, just that we know she just brings
to the boat. And I think when she's on the
start line. It's probably intimidating enough.
Speaker 5 (37:35):
For any opposent.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Absolutely. Just finally, how things going on the South Aakland farm.
Speaker 8 (37:41):
Yeah, pretty good, well, sales being what they are with
steers and the like. At the moment, Andy, the numbers
are just through the roofs. So yeah, we're just yeah
lining up, you know, a wishless you know, Dear Santa.
It's just it's been quite remarkable on that front. We're
getting rid of a few hay bales who out of
the barn. That's been good pocket money. You know, I
(38:02):
can't argue with that.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
You're still selling that hate of those pet stores for
good Molah.
Speaker 8 (38:08):
That's right, that's right, that's our little secret. And you
just people coming in. We've we've been we've we've been
selling with a firewood too, just keeping cottage industry going
out there so you can't complain.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Talk about the versification and the rural sector, rulers, that's
what you're all about. Always appreciate your time, enjoying the weekend.
Speaker 8 (38:24):
Absolutely heads off to trade me.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Andrew Orderson out do Zivy. He's a good sport. Before
we wrap up for the week, Katrina Thomas out of
the South and Ural Support Trust. Welcome back to the muster.
(38:52):
Katrina Thomas joins us the South and Rural Support Trusts.
Brunch on Us events kick off next week just to
give people bit of an idea of where these are occurring,
A good chance to take a brain, to take a break. Yeah,
I was going to say a brain, but to break
off the farm. There's probably a better terminology. I could
train a good afternoon house siggs.
Speaker 9 (39:11):
Oh hi, Andy, I can't complain about the weather. I
know farmers loved to complain about the weather, but the
weather has been amazing. We've had one week earlier in
the week you know mud mud MUDs and those carbs
well we couldn't even tell what breed and brand they
were at one point. But can't complain, can't complain. But
we're very excited to be bringing out Brunch on Us again.
(39:34):
This has actually gone nationwide and it was initiated with
a support of FMG, but I've had loads and loads
of others come on board nationally and regionally to put
this together, the Brunch on Us and now we've done
it over there is probably about our third year. So
what it is, it's just an opportunity to get together.
Speaker 8 (39:56):
We've picked seven.
Speaker 9 (39:57):
Locations across Southland and it's there's a chance to meet
upsit of between ten thirty and one o'clock and over
the barbecue come and have you know, eggs and bread
and some sausages and the biggs you can count. You
can come and get a real coffee. Ending need a
real coffee when you get off farm, don't you.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
You just made a break and it's a busy time.
That's all the boils down.
Speaker 9 (40:22):
To pretty much. That's another little incentive that we've got
the coffee chats coming. So to roll out. We start
next week on Wednesday the twenty seventh at Gorge Road
at the Good Road Country Club. Then we moved to
Riversdale at the Rugby Club on the Friday, the twenty ninth,
then across to a Tardewe at Farm Source on Tuesday
(40:43):
the second, Lumston the following Thursday, Clifton on the Tuesday.
Then we're going to pop up to Tiana to the
Rugby Club. So baby Clifton is the golf club. Don't worry,
you don't need to remember all these you'll be able
to look up the South and Ruin Sport Trust Facebook
page and the World Support Trust website. We've got Lumsdon, Clifton,
(41:05):
Tian Now and then we finish up in Glenham because
apparently the Glenham ones have a little regular gig on
a Friday over. I think it's meg Cow Coffee for there.
The biggie is farmers anyone associated with farming anyway, said
of farming, Bring the team, bring the neighbors. We've got
(41:26):
fatther support, like I see from lots of rural professionals
and those businesses. They're going to be there. So if
you want to have a fresh conversation or a free
conversation and not get charged, you know, we'll have lots
and lots of representatives. We've also got some of the
farm advisory guys coming as well from farm Wise and
egg First and stuff like that to get some free advice.
(41:47):
Ask you know, what else could they be doing at
this time of the time of the year, and just
just chats can catch up with others. But I know
it can never be perfect on farm. Like we've had
our ups and downs, you know, perfect Patty was telling me,
you know, just little things like we've cultivated and you know,
(42:10):
the hes got a little bit cars, so they're going
to sort of pull them out of those weird gaps.
They don't used to have them to sheet but you know,
Cheltic cart things happen, and but talk to others. Others
will have solutions. You know you, I'm sure when you
were farming Andy used to yarn to others about what
was happening.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Of course you did. It's all about connecting, that's what
you did.
Speaker 5 (42:33):
It is.
Speaker 9 (42:33):
So look, we're really really excited to bring these to
Southland starting next Wednesday right through until September ten thirty
to one. Like I said, go to the south and
Real Sport Trust Facebook page, or go to the website
Real Support Trust Google that if you just talk about
the website, We're going to Furma. This new website Frontira
(42:55):
Paige for that, which was fantastic, lots amazing loads of
information on each of the regions throughout the country. And
then we've got a whole events page on there so
you also see what other things are coming up within
the region, what's technic nationwide and if you've got friends
further up country, you'll be able to see if there's
a brunch on us and they're part of the world.
(43:16):
Nicod winds as well and encouraged encourage them to go.
But oh yeah, I got say they feeling about me.
I'm feeling exhausted. We're about halfway through. The heapers are coming,
the beefes are coming. The beefes are moving on, thank goodness.
So that's great to see them be raised and not
being killed.
Speaker 8 (43:34):
Until later on.
Speaker 9 (43:36):
Yeah, first world problems about the weather. I can't really
like to see. You can't complain, so put it in
your diary.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
Get off absolutely, Trina. You enjoy the weekend. Always appreciate
your time.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Hey, And just on a final.
Speaker 9 (43:51):
Note, oh my god, how impressed I was with the
stags last night.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Go the Stags absolutely good on your good TRAINA Saves
and Andy laugh out loud with ag proud because life
on the land can be a laughing matter. Brought to
us by sheer Well Data working to help the livestock farmer.
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(44:16):
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Don't forget the best of the Muster tomorrow five am
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