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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Muster proudly brought to you by Peter's Genetics. Every
drop means quite a lot when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Good afternoon. You're with Chris Wilson on the Muster this Thursday,
the twenty third of October. She's a bit of a
windy and wild old day out there. Just covering off
the show. Today, we're going to have notger Woodhead South
Otigo Farmer, Jason Herrick South and Federated Farmer's Chair, Bloom
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Dairy Farmer, aquaculture promoter of all things Rural, Sandra Taylor
from Beef and Lamb News end Zen for the awards,
and Nathan Byrne with a bit of sports chat fired
up by laugh Out Loud. Today your music will be
rim various different songs from them. And yeah, I'd like
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to thank Class Harves Center again for letting me come
along and sit in the hot seat while and he's away.
Hopefully I can do him justice once again.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
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Speaker 2 (01:15):
Even though today's about halfway, we'll cover off that periods
of rain, possibly heavy with squally thunderstorms and hail from evening,
mainly about the coast and Sturet Island. Snow to four
hundred meters in the evening, north westerly, severe gale and
exposed places one hundred and twenty k's per hour. Tomorrow Friday,
the twenty fourth of October, partly cloudy, a few showers
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about the coast and Stuart Island before dawn, possibly heavy
with thunderstorms and snow to five hundred meters. Scattered rain
from afternoon, gusty westerly is with gales at times about
the coast and Stuart Island. Saturday, the twenty fifth, a
bit more brief showers, a few showers, strong westerlies easing
at night, a high thirteen and a last five. Sunday showers,
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some heavy in the morning morning Westley's easing a high
of eleven and a low of two. For Monday, the
twenty seventh, Labor Day, rain easing subtlely is developing a
high of eight and a low of one. Tuesday, the
twenty eighth of October, share was developing, some possibly heavy
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in westerlies, a high of nine and a low of one. Well,
could have just summed it up by saying it's pretty
average and it doesn't look like it's going to change.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
All right, We'll get on with the showgg Rights and
stock sales report.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
We've got David here at the Chart and sale David
tell us all about it today.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
Hey, good morning you side Jerney today. The left the
very heavy left, which is pretty much more the cold
rams coming true. They ranged from nine three twenty any
prime lands anywhere from sort of early twos two twenty
through to two thirsts off the light of the prime
lands around, it's sort of one sixty five to one eighty,
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like to the metal strategy out in there today at
the U section there today, the best of the earth
mark was up again today. The best of the US
pretty much rans from sort of two twenty to two
forty as ever used it is any news anywhere sort
of one seventy five to two hundred with the life
to news against sort of hurrying around. It's sort of
one forty five dollars and that pretty much wraps the
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day up.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Good afternoon. The weather changing and the situation has been
upgraded to a red warning. Here in Southland, the met
Service upgraded their windwarding for coastal Cluther Southland and Stuart Island.
The wind should last till around about four o'clock this afternoon,
with severe winds gusting up to around one hundred and
fifty kilometers per our inexposed places already, we've heard of
power outages around Gore. There's a danger to life from
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flying debris and falling trees. Who should stay indoors and
seek sturdy shelter, avoid travel, and be prepared for power
and communications outages through the afternoon. If you are in
any immediate danger, called one one one. But that Southland
wind warning has now been upgraded to a red.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
The muster proudly brought to you by Peter's Genetics. Every
drip means quite a bit when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
With us now on the show, we've got Nigel woodheads
south of Tigo Farmer. Can Nigel get on?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
How are we doing, Christy? We're it's all right at
the moment.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, sunshiny hair currently, but it's not any of these
windy No.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
I had to had to shoot back the yard and
hide in the sheet just so we could yarn it.
She's so anyway, it's been well forecast, so hopefully it
doesn't last too long.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, well, let's hope. I guess whether you want rain
or not. The wind's going to bring the rain, and
the rain will put the wind down, but then you
need the wind to get rid of the moisture. Yeah, yeah, continuous,
it'll come right.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
It's a catch and the lower trying to get track
to work done. We've got summer crop to go on
the ground, plus some balley and peas for solids, and
I haven't got a single seed in the ground yet
just because of the conditions and things. But yeah, we
should of not trying to push these too much. We'll
just yeah, just have to be patient, wait for ground conditions.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah. I think it's just that don't panic thing, which
is tough because time is slipping away too.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yeah. No, you're right, well that sort of twenty third.
It would have been nice if he had something in but
at the same time, we've got to be realistic. You know.
We've still got lights and habits for tail and we've
been feeding tars. Are just feed the last lot of
milk to the last cards this morning, so that it's
a job out of the road and starting to shuffles,
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mews and lambs around, so it's always plenty to keep
us busy.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
How did the tailing results? You're happy with them?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Yeah, we've done we've done all that sort of first cycle,
all the stadius, so they're going pretty good. Where on
track somewhere around one hundred and fifty percent of the ram,
which is yeah, which is always sort of the target. Yep,
And yeah, so depending on how the lakes go, well,
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we shouldn't be we shouldn't be far away from that,
and depends if I get greedy or not. And count
ten or a dozen lure and probably more than that
twenty odd lambs that managed to evade us at tailing,
if I put them in the count pretty.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Close count them all.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Wow, Yeah, we'll see if I need to count them
to get to both gold and fifty, I mic, but
if I don't die white, then I can be bonus
lambs at weening.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
You're not.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Yeah, yeah, we're yeah, reasonably happy to be feared. It
hasn't been like a perfect lembing, but the weather wasn't perfect,
but we had a pretty good scanning, so there were
put any lambs inside the use on the way in
and we set start on the reasonable covers and had
reasonable body conditions. But i'll tell you what we've We've
(07:23):
got through some through some grass cover in the last week.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
While Yeah, it's pretty hand to mouth, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Yeah yeah, but yeah, we had to dager here last
week doing some drainage and then for lots of truck
here used today putting on a bit of soaper before
before some crops, and he said, we've probably got a
little bit more feed than a lot of farms teeth lately,
so we're probably don't all right, But just shuffling using
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lambs around to try and give them a fresh peck
and take take a handful we use out of a
mob that's a bit tight and put them in a mob.
There's a bit of extra cover and things just to
try and even things out better work, but hopefully it
plays off.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
There's probably more fits and starts than anything, isn't it
to the growth?
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Like well, I'm sitting here now and
the sun's out and the winds died right off. It's
probably fifteen or seventeen degrees. It's beautiful, but it seems
like it's going to turn ugly again this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yeah, that's roaring forties, I suppose, and it's lave weekend.
It's everything that's the time of the year.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
I just just got a picture from a mate in
North Canterbury. He's a bigger one straight road and he's
probably teen or a dozen power poles in a row
along the straight road or snapped off at ground level.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I heard there were wires now, but I didn't know
it was the actual poles that went with them.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Oh yeah, not good, like absolute carnage. And a lot
of guys up there without parent will be for a
few days by the under it. So yeah, hopefully hopefully
things that he's off quicker than their forecasting.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yeah, hope. So they tell me what your calves. So
you've wanned them from milk then just recently.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Yeah, just to last, just to last at them. So
we yeah, we buy four hours off the dairy farmit
we usually do around sixty. We push the numbers up
of it this year, so that seventy five or so.
And yeah, they've been on milk just once a day
powder since pretty much the start, and then we wean
them off milk at so the sixty five kilosh and
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keep keep them in the shed until they're eating minimum
a kilo of palette today. You know, we've got a
handful here. They're eating two quilo today. So when the
weather settles down, we'll boot them out into a nice
shelf of peeddic and over the next couple of weeks
of their palette allocational easy hack and they'll eat more
and more grass. So yeah, the first sort of fifty
(09:53):
ydd that they're out in about down to the kilo
or just over a kilo Pellett's day now they do
really well, so nice. Yeah, it seems to work pretty well.
It's your kettle system. We'll they're all freezing here for
cross balls. We'll take them through that eighty months.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
So you're just room and development right now, isn't it
just to get them up and going.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Yeah, yeah, So it's just yeah, ed love, high protein
pilots and ed love and good quality barley straw and yeah,
like I said, the last the last four who were
just a wee bit smaller than the race head, they
last feed of milk this morning, so they'll they'll stand
the shed for a few more days yet, just transition
off the milk onto the one hundred percent pallets and
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straw diet and then then they'll go outside and they'll
they'll start on some graphs.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yeah what it is, And then I gets all you
need now is just a targer to win the n
PC final and you'll be real happy.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Yeah, it's argue. It will be a hell of a
battle to be feared. Would have been great to gon
aren't get up due to the game, But we're going.
We've actually got a friend's birthday party in Philey this weekend,
so it could be a good start to be so well,
yeah it won't be. It won't be all bad, but
we'll be surrounded by a whole lot of one eyed
can tabs, which, depending on the depending on the results
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of the game, will be a good thing or not
such a good thing. But that's it'll be right. We'll
we catch up some for the crew that I went
through through Lincoln with them. Haven't seen a lot of
them in a long time, so we go catch up. Nonetheless.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah, well, and you know you've got the majority of
seeuth and behind you too.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Oh yeah, one hundred percent years pretty much every on
south of the Wye taking and well I probably do
say that if it run north of Welling probably want
to target and win too, would they?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I should just be to think so. So Cannaby is
going to use that, aren't they, let's face it.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Any Yeah, yeah, that that being said, Yeah, I've had
a ripper of a season the ki and two ye
to recorder whatever it is, what this regardless what heapens
this weeking, it's been pretty awesome season and it's I
(12:01):
didn't pick them to be putting you know whatever. It
was twenty five to thirty points on the Bay last week.
So yeah, and even even the Stags have had a
much better season I've had the last couple of years.
So it's good to see. Good to see the Southern
teams on the up and up well.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
And the one golden thing that Otago has got that
no one could take away now anyway is the shield too.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
And that's a that's a very good point yep. Yeah.
There's a couple of us in a in a step
check group with a former master hoist, Andy Thompson, and
we take great pride and reminding him of the only
South Ireland the NPC thing could not have held the
shield this year, as beloved caseman. So I can't help
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with get another another barbin for that yep.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I don't know. I struggle with the magamations. I just
don't think they count full stop.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Yeah, yeah, there's been some fantastic for the high scoring,
exciting young guys at Young Pledger and and the open side,
the open side wats the same Lucas Casey. For a
Targo man watching them play has been it's awesome, like
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just so good that you know, these these guys are
getting the chance and playing good open running rugby and
scoring some tries and getting to try some cool stuff.
That's awesome. So hopefully we can where he is in
New Zealand full stop can and can hang on to
them and keep them here. They've got all all over.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Them, don't absolutely. Hey Nigel, we've run out of time.
I'll just have to wrap it up there. Thank you
very much for your time and all the best for
the next week and two and we'll keep in touch.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
No no worries, good man, Thank you, Thank Chris.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
How can do we across Southland? And we have an
undate that all Gore Council facilities are now closed for
the day. Earlier we had been informed that the Gormaldi
Sports Complex was closed and State Highway won Gordon Matauda
Highway at Cardigan Bay Road is closed and to that
today that all council facilities are closed.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
The muster proudly brought to you by Peter's Genetics. Every
drop means quite a lot when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 8 (14:29):
Night swimming with us.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Now we've got Jason Herrick from South con Federated Farmers
the chairman. Good a Jason here you getting on could
be an appropriate song, a bit of night swimming talking
about the White Turn and lagoon. You know, maybe do
a bit of swimming down.
Speaker 9 (14:49):
There, well you could do.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
At the moment. She's pretty high.
Speaker 9 (14:53):
The last reading I've seen was two point two one
meters and you know, with the forecast and and more
rain on the way, it's looking like it could be
unundated and in need of an emergency opening at some point.
I would say sooner.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Rather than later, to be honest, Yes, And how's that
going to go.
Speaker 9 (15:14):
Well for me personally? From a Federated Farmer's point of view.
I have sent an email request to Environment Southland to
look at the option of an emergency opening right now.
Given the forecast I actually sent that last week and
the projected height of the lagoon being in excess of
two point five meters, which will be pretty catech strouphe
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for the whole community down there, to be honest with you,
you know, and given in light of the consent application
being approved this week with fifty three unworkable conditions in
it that will see the lagoon basically never being opened
because of the processes that you have to go through
within that consent between the three entities that own that consent.
(16:00):
You know, we've got a lot of work to do
on this and basically where it's sitting at this point
in time going forward, the lagoon is a very contentious subject,
and to be honest, the community have been completely lit
down by this process and the community was pretty much
never listened to through all of the process to get
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to this point.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
So what's the fear with the motening it?
Speaker 9 (16:25):
That's the fear with the motent. We don't actually understand
the logistics of why they want the lagoon backed up
to the point where they want it and over the
next twenty years under the consent conditions, you know, they
eventually wanted it two point five meters before it is
even contemplated being open, and currently at two point two
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you know, the road and the bridge down there are underwater,
and if it gets any high, you know, everything becomes unpassable.
The Sound District Council have closed the road down their
access into it for that reason, because it has flooded.
You know, So all of a sudden, we've got infrastructure
in jeopardy for access to the lagoon itself ecologically, what's
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it going to do in the future. We know it
turned there last year and it had to be opened
under emergency powers because the ecology of the lake was
under a massive threat.
Speaker 8 (17:22):
And it's just it is what it is.
Speaker 9 (17:24):
And you look at the diversity down there at the
moment from where the level's got to last year, and
and you know there's a lot of deat biodiversity down there,
so and this is all natural pauna as well. So
it is creating a lot of a lot of destruction.
And I really don't understand where that the parties that
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are fighting for this are coming from. Logically, it just
doesn't make sense to me.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, that's just as bad leaving it, isn't it. And
I always thought by by definition, a lagoon was something
that was opened at times anyway, whether it was by
nature or as we've moved on, we've tried to prevent
NATU from doing that. So now there someone else is
judging when the right time is. And I don't think
that's quite the right thing.
Speaker 10 (18:11):
Is it.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
No, it's not.
Speaker 9 (18:12):
When we've been interfering with things like the lagoon for generations.
We've got to carry on maintaining it. And you can
have the same argument with the rivers and south and
you know we've modified them to the point where they
need to be maintained, right, So same with the lagoon, and.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
We've got to keep it fresh.
Speaker 9 (18:29):
We've got to keep it flushed. You've got to keep
the biodiversity growing and thriving, and obviously the access to
the sea as well to allow the turner and other
species to have access in and out as well. And
to be honest, you know, flushing the lagoon out every
now and again would be in my opinion, a lot
more beneficial than leaving it shut up.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Well, I can't say it's that much of a bad thing.
And there is also solution by dilution if there's any
any thing that's it's not perfect, but it's into quite
a big water pond outside the outside the wall. If
you will isn't it like that dilutes down to nothing?
Speaker 9 (19:07):
Yeah, precisely, And I mean the local community there on
the leaps and bounds to letten the nutrient loss off
of farmland. Biggest concern right now by living the water
back up is actually sediment lost by soaking the land
and flooding it, especially the waterways that go into the lagoon,
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by living the water back up into there, and the
soil becomes sodden when it does actually look going at
wall to go naturally one day, you know, with theation
of water, you'll lean up with all of that sediment
loss and it will take a prepload of land with
it because it's wet, it's sotdom And then you get
a release, and it would it'll just be like a
torrent releasing more sediment into the into the lagoon, which
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is not what we want.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
No, No, that's right.
Speaker 9 (19:53):
So we're doing need practical solutions here. So we're going
to work hard with the community down there and with
legislators and glad us to see if we can get
a bit of sensibility back in this decison.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Well, we're only after pragmatism.
Speaker 9 (20:06):
Aren't we, Yeah, exactly, And we want things to be
you know, practical, in workable and you know, looking out
for the bigger picture in the wider community, not just
one group's opinion on how things should go.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I completely agree. Hey, Jason, I think we'll leave it there,
just getting tight for time. But thank you very much
for your time and but luckily here you're in Australia,
so enjoy your time there and what your endeavors are.
Speaker 9 (20:35):
Yeah, you're welcome, Chris and everybody stay safe at home too.
With with the weather, thank you you make sure you
locked down good Thanks mate, Bright.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Time average not destrive night.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Swimming cross south from the South to Doon. The bad
weather has arrived, that's been forecast, the strong winds and
rain and we currently have the power lines down on
State Highway ninety six between Matada and Ti Tippawa. State
Highway ninety six Glencoe Highway is closed from Matada to
Hedgehope and access for residence is as far down as
Downs North Road and Terrace Road, and you're asked please
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to avoid the area unless absolutely necessary. There's also reports
of significant flooding on State Highway six south of Kingston.
It's passable at the stage, but please take extra care,
and according to our colleagues, there's also flooding between Kingston
and the Devil's Staircase and that's a please travel only
if absolutely necessary scenario. So we'll update you a little
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later on once we know what's happening in terms of
a likely reopening for State Highway ninety six or an
update on the flooding on State Highway six.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
The Muster proudly brought to you by Peter's Genetics. Every
drip means quite a bit when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
A bit of rim and pop song eighty nine. I'm
not sure how applicable that would be to an next
guest Blum on the show Art you're probably in Holland.
I don't know if you knew about our em then,
did you?
Speaker 8 (22:17):
Yeah? I sure did?
Speaker 10 (22:18):
Did?
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Yeah, yeah, certainly be busting a few moves in a
few school discoes, I'm sure.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
So.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
We're calling you up seeing just what's happening in your world,
and you know you're quite a PROGRESSI dairy farmer, you've
got you've got your fingers in a few pies, a
bit of agriculture and that sort of thing, and great
promoter of young people in the industry. But I'll just
start with here's your season rolling and you know what
are you finding as the challenges at this stage?
Speaker 8 (22:47):
Yeah, we've had a pretty good season, Chris. Thanks Northern
Southland belfare for a really good month to be to
be carving. And in September, I've got a bit. I've
got a bit of spring, spring like but very boring.
Today we've got a good storm coming through like the
whole country. But we can't complain really. The grass is
growing and we're getting ready for mating and turn over
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a few peticks, trying to get a few summer turnips in.
Yesterday we made a start, but with it rained off,
so we'll carry on when it drives up again.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
So started mating? Have you started mating at all yet
or not quite?
Speaker 8 (23:22):
No, not quite yet. We always start on the first
of November, so there's not changed to this year. But
not a week and we'll be into it.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I do know of the odd one doing a few
carryovers and young stock and that sort of thing. So
we're right on the edge of it, aren't we.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
Yeah, Yeah, it's about about all about to happen.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
And how are you finding it with the grass growth
you behind or is it just hand of mouth like
you won't be doing much soilence just yet.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
No, it was slow or slow for a start, but
it's definitely we're definitely catching up. It sounds like an
old an old guy. But every year we seem to
be making charletts in the first week of November and
no better little bed at the spring is always seems
to happen, and I think this year is no exception.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Yeah yeah, and well it's going to be a good
quality at least because the cows will be keeping on
top of everything that's that's not going into the sticks.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
So yeah, yeah, absolutely, you know, the gs are humming,
but I think we're in a good space.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Really, that's brilliant, and so I know a lot about you.
You're a very good friend of mine. But just for
the listeners out there, you've got another venture up in
the Marver Sounds or on the top of the South Island.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
Yeah, So we're quite involved in in aguaculture and muscle
farming and that's that's that's growing and moving in the
right direction and we're quite proud to say that last
week we had the launch of a new muscle vessel
that I've built together with Simon Bully, a partner in
the business. It's been an awesome project and yet really
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going to enable us to look after a lot more
water space and keep things more in the house. And yeah, driver,
driver help business.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
And I guess too with if things get a bit
tight and the muscles hopefully deeries okay and vice versave
theories got a bit of a pinch on. Hopefully the
muscles are okay. That generally would they be down together
or they usually roll along pretty good.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Yeah, both industries come and go.
Speaker 8 (25:19):
It's pretty much you know, commodity we do. We do
do some value add with their own muscles as well,
but a big big chung of the muscles, you know,
get soort of this commodity product. So it's both both
products are cyclical and pricing. So let's hope that if
one is down, the other one is up for vice fersa.
And if they're both up, it'll be awesome. If they're
(25:41):
both down, I'll be.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
A bit nervous.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Yeah, yeah, you'll be right. And so we know what
happens to the milk obviously, Well you are a frontier supplier,
so it goes out the gate and the big truck
and gets dried and goes offshore probably predominantly what happens
with your muscles.
Speaker 8 (25:57):
So we've got the Mills Bay Muscles in in Havelock
and we supplied a lot of the supermarkets through definitely
all through the South Island and into the North Island
as well, so that's a big chunk of our muscles.
And then we also work with Steve Glassy exports a
lot of muscles to China, and we've also we're also
working with Chris Redwood and they've got Amiga muscles and
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they export to a lot of the States and also
a big chunk of them coast to Asia. So yeah,
muscle going different ways, different specs, and they're pretty good partnerships.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
So you see them supermarkets, what particular product goes through
them and what supermarkets.
Speaker 8 (26:37):
So we sell, we sell live muscles, So those muscles
in the tanks. Did you see that there's pretty much
all our muscles. We do met packaging as well, which
is the a down at grim Guest flash muscles. They
stay alive a bit longer, but they're still live and fresh,
and pretty much all the supermarkets, most of the supermarkets
have got a little flyers sitting on top, which is
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my daughter Meghan. Yeah, family business. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
So and before we run out of time, then, just
to touch on Megan. You you've got four amazing children,
by the way, but I'm going to concentrate on Megan.
And you've got a lovely wife or partner and Helen. Yeah. Now,
I'm going to just check this out there that Megan
is your daughter. She's the Zenda McDonald recipient. Is that correct?
Speaker 8 (27:24):
Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Yes, we're very proud to admit that.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Yep, very well. I'm very proud to have you guys
as friends. I can at least big note and say
I know someone that's you know and it's a recipient.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Yeah, yeah, so you was four years old?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Yes, yes, hey mate, look I'm going to have to
wrap that up there. And the power seems to be
flicking off and on now. So thank you very much
for your time, and we will I'll be in touch
with you at some stage soon anyway.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Cheers at Yeah, nice chatting great.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
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Speaker 2 (28:16):
Welcome back to the show with us. Next, we've got
soundre Taylor from Beef and Lamb Musee on kid.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
So, Andra, how you go, I'm good things. How are you, Chris?
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Yeah, very good. Thanks. So you're based on christ Church.
We've got some indifferent weather here. I'm sure you guys
have too, by all the warnings that have been out.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
Oh certainly has well. I'm based in christ Church and
they have predicted that the winds would pack up about
ten which is they were absolutely being on the on
the money. It was actually really still here. First thing.
But I've just seen some much just being mm looking
at a quick look at Facebook and I saw some
images from Hemnah. A farmer posted some horrible scenes of
you know, all the power lines down, the road down
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and I think there's going to be a huge amount
of damage from what I understand. It's just you know,
that time of the year with irrogators, it's a busy
time on farm and yeah, it just puts puts everyone
so behind and it's devastating. It's just, you know, we're
having such a good season really well. I say that
it has been a bit dry in some places, but
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you know, financially it was looking like it was going
to be a good season. But if there's going to
be huge amounts of damage, that's such a bit of
a kick in the teeth really.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Yeah, And it is just so dangerous that win too,
like it's flowing. I mean, we used to win down
here in Southland two but I'm sure as Cannoby people are.
But this has just got that edge to it, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
Oh, it certainly has almost been feeling like waiting for
a hurricane to hit and looking at ken Canterbury weather updates,
so said they've got hurricane force winds up from Himna
and do you know all those trees and it is
just dangerous to be outside, it certainly is. So I
just hope people just stay safe.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Yeah, it's hope. They've got the irrigators packed, you know,
in the safest spot. And and I passed the main
freight truck yesterday and he had all of his curtain
sides open, just with the way the winds were.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
Yeah, yeah, let that one through.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Yeah, for obvious reasons. If you've anyone seen that picture
on Facebook twice or was it?
Speaker 7 (30:14):
Yes, yeah it was, yeah, it was down through that
Mackenzie country and yes, but you know, we're dry enough
and these ones just sucked the moisture out of the soil.
And if you have, you know, you've got mangled irrigators.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
It just takes.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
Yeah, it couldn't even look just one, isn't it. You
know therese are going to be a whole lot of
irrigators damaged. I imagine.
Speaker 8 (30:33):
Well I hope, I hope not that.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I think it's the inconvenience and the cost, doesn't it.
It's everything.
Speaker 8 (30:39):
Yeah, yeah, that's huge.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
So you've got the twenty six Beef and Lamb Awards,
You've got the entries have just opened for that, Yes.
Speaker 8 (30:48):
Yes we have.
Speaker 7 (30:49):
We opened them on on Monday and the interals will
be open until the eighth of December and that's usually
when we get a real run of entry. So look,
we've this is going to be our fourth lot of
Beef and Lamb Awards. The origins actually came from Southland
where we had the Sheep Industry Awards and they grew
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in popularity and we relaunched the Beef and Lamb Awards
a few years ago and this year we just actually
had a bit of a break this year because we
want to align it with our flagship events, the Out
the Gate Conference, and that's going to be held in
christ Church in May, so the winners of the Beef
and Lamb Awards will be announced in May at the
(31:35):
dinner there. So we're pretty excited. It's always, you know,
we have to celebrate our industry and there is aside
from the weather, we've got some great there's some great
work being done out there, and it's really these awards
are an opportunity to celebrate the people who are involved
in the technologies that make our red meat industry so.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
World leading, and I think the weather actually helps enhance
it with their farmers in the people in the industry
for whether it's mitigation, finding technologies to help with restricting moisture,
lost that sort of thing in the industry. So it's
all really cool stuff, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
Oh, it's really fantastic stuff. So in our for our
awards is eight award categories and four of them are
industry based, so we've got Science and Research, Technology, Innovation,
and market Leader, and then we've got the People Awards,
so we recognize those in the industry who are emerging
emerging leaders, rural champions, people development, you know those people
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who are teaching their young ones, and this is on
farm as well as in guest teaching institutions. And the
Significant Contribution award, which recognizes people who have made a
significant contribution to the industry over a lifetime.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Yeah, which is some of that's probably likes of intangible
stuff too. Isn't it that there's no awards that they
gather along the way. But I guess it's like a
life membership, is it, Oh, I guess.
Speaker 9 (33:08):
So.
Speaker 7 (33:09):
Look, it's just an opportunity for us to acknowledge that,
you know, there's so many people in rural communities who
are doing huge amounts of ours volunteer hours, as you know,
and it is an opportunity to recognize those people. We
have actually recognized scientists in the last couple of years,
so it would be really nice to if we can
get good, some good strong farm entries in and and
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recognize those those people who do work in our communities
and make such a difference.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
You're right, yeah, And you know, any tips for entering.
Speaker 7 (33:43):
Look, just get online. It's all of our awards are
online as e RECU now, but we've may try to
make them as simple as possible because no one wants
to sit in front of a computer for two hours
a day, you know, trying to whop these things out.
Most of the award questions they're just four questions. And
what we do once we get the entries and we
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actually do go back and just make sure all the
information is correct, but also if there's anything missing, because
as I do it all the time, you send something
off and you think, oh, I wish i'd did it that.
So we give people the opportunity to do that once
we've received the entries in and just make sure the
information is creept before it goes into the jug, into
the judging process.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Yeah, and I see making sure your answers are succinct
and well at points, as opposed to maybe a novel,
because I guess the novel can be hashed out later
too with people as you go as they go through
the process.
Speaker 7 (34:38):
Oh absolutely, you know, we give them the opportunity to
tell their stories as well. You know, we get some
wonderful entrance and you say, gosh, you know you have
no idea what's go Well, you probably do, Chris, but
you know you're just as uncovering people who are doing
some really interesting work out there. You know, we had
perl Vel a couple of years ago, and what they're
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doing with minimizing losses and the wasted in the dairy
industry and making creating a market for VEL. But that's
just one example. We've just we've had some really interesting
entries over the past few years, and I have no
doubt we'll get some.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
More this year.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Yeah, and I can imagine it being a bit like
this is a very bad analogy, but a bit like
pop idol and you hear that amazing voice. It's kind
of like, well, where have you been these people that
are putting their head above the parapet all of a sudden,
then you can't see them until they sort of present themselves.
So it's a really good way to get that exposure,
isn't it.
Speaker 7 (35:34):
It really is, And we encourage people to enter. But look,
there's a lot of people who I'm probably the majority
of our entries are nominations. So people take the time
to nominate somebody they know, who they've worked with, who
they believe should be given some recognition or some profile.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Oh very good. Well, right, look we'll wrap it up
there and you'll be in touch or I well, or
you know, this is an ongoing thing. So I'll thank
you very much for your time and I wish you
all the best on the next week or two. Oh,
thank you so much, thank you, cheers, thank you, bye bye.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Last changeable situations this afternoon, and we were updating as
we can as we go along, as far as other
road closures are concerned in our catchment, State Highway one,
the East Road and the Cargo between Mill Road North
and Racecourse Road closed, State Highway one Gore Mattada Highway
at Cardigan Bay Road is closed, State Highway ninety three
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between Koweira Road and Mattada is closed due to fallen trees,
and State Highway ninety six between Matawda and Headshope is
closed as well. And could you note also that State
Highway one Edendale Roundabout to North Road that has closed
due to flying debris. The situation is changing quickly. If
you don't have to be traveling, please don't travel, stay
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indoors until this passes.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
The muster proudly brought to you by Peter's Genetics. Every
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Speaker 2 (37:15):
Well, this's next on the show. We've got Nathan Burden
just to round off all things sports and happenings in
the sporting area. Nathan, how are you getting on?
Speaker 10 (37:24):
Yeah, look, I'm betting down the hatches as we speak.
It is great to talk a bit of sport. But
obviously we'll say thoughts and prayers out to all those
people that if they have to be out in this weather,
hopefully everyone keeping themselves safe over the next couple of days.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Ye, he's hoping. It's a bit of a shame. It's
over a long we can too for people.
Speaker 10 (37:45):
Yeah, absolutely, I mean he had the flight disruptions and
that sort of thing that are happening at the moment.
It's obviously it's causing a muck, but we can't do
much about the weather. The wind doesn't care what we
think of it, so it's just gonna happen, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
And also, I guess this is a farming radio show,
so the farmers actually will have to carry on through
this too if they if they haven't got caught up,
So that those poor fellows too. I just wish them
all the best for safety and getting through it.
Speaker 10 (38:10):
Yeah, all the best stay and yeah, and as you say,
just yeah, safeties that the main priority to get got
to get home at the end of the day. So
you thought some pres with those people.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Absolutely so should we. I didn't realize, but you just
enlightened me. Around the Silver Ferns.
Speaker 10 (38:27):
Last night, speaking of speaking of storms, there's been a
bit of a storm around the Silver Ferns and in
recent weeks hasn't there and it sort of continues with
this Constellation Cup series against Australia. It is, but it
is an easy one to miss at the moment with
the Diamonds. It's a little bit past my bed time,
so it's yeah, and and the Silver Ferns are in
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a bit of a battle. It's a second straight convincing
loss to the old foe from it from across the ditch.
So you know, obviously there's plenty of happening off the
court and you know they're doing their best, I think
in terms of trying to put a performance out there
that that befits that black dress that they're obviously quite
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proud of. And it was, but it was another tough
one last night.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Yeah, completely and just surrounded by probably by controversy really
like they've got to stand in Coach Nolan, she's on
the outer and she doesn't want to go like, I
don't know, I kind of think, if they don't want you,
what are you fighting for? But yeah, yeah, And.
Speaker 10 (39:33):
I don't think it was helped with with a couple
of ministers sort of jumping into that into the argument
in the last couple of days. I'm not sure sort
of what that what that adds to the to the conversation.
I think, you know, last night we saw Grace and
Newiki sort of being uncustomarily sort of rattled, obviously being
put under a huge amount of physical pressure by the Aussies.
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They know, if they can if they can knock their goal, shoot,
they go a long way towards winning the game. But
it looked like a much more settled sort of mid court,
which was something that they needed to work on from
the first game, and that there were some positive signs there.
But the big positive for me, I think was Georgia
Heffer and getting a big opportunity to come on at
goal attack sort of quite early in the game after
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Martinez Salmon had made a couple of eras, and I
thought Georgia really provided a point of difference at goal attack,
you know, something different for the Aussies to look at.
She had there was there was a strong game in
a losing performance.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Yeah, absolutely not that I've seen it. I didn't even know,
to be fair, that's how ignorant I am at the moment.
Just it's just busy. So I apologize for that cricket too.
That caps the England and the t twenties.
Speaker 10 (40:46):
Yeah, this is another one that sort of keeps the
old eyelids challenged too, doesn't it with the with the
seven o'clock kickoff, and I guess we're still sort of
in rugby mode, but we're sort of transitioning into an
early cricket mode as they've seemed very early in this
season to be into a second series already. But the
English of they obviously they create quite a bit of
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a challenge for us the second game at Hagley where
we've probably missed the trick unfortunately with the weather in
the first game, that was probably the best opportunity in
terms of knocking the English over. And then they showed
us exactly what they can do, particularly with Harry Brook
and Salt sort of peppering the boundaries and the in
that second game they really took it to us a
record score at Hagley, and and you know, obviously a big,
(41:30):
a big key is trying to break that opening partnership
early tonight at Eden Park because you just think of those.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Small boundaries, they are the postage stack of.
Speaker 10 (41:38):
These clean hitting Englishmen. They must just be licking their lips,
you know when they when they sort of look at
just what sort of a score they could rack up.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Yeah, and I think when you you know, you allude
to the first game at Hagley, often we can bowl
well too, but let's not, you know, count out the
opposition bowlers. And if we can do it to a team,
often is every chance you can be done to us too?
Speaker 10 (42:00):
You can't it absolutely. It's just seemed we're in sort
of a generation of of players that have really cottoned
onto what T twenty cricket is all about. And you know,
we saw the Australians come here and do that do
it to us early on. We got these these batsmen,
all tall guys, long leavers that just seem to be
able to get underneath the ball and really help it
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over the boundary. You know, they can just absolutely even
even the mis hits are game for six. Then they're
just such clean strikers of the ball, really feel for
a guy like Jacob Duffy, you know, having talked to
him a couple of times about this, they always know
they're on a hiding for nothing. Yeah, but you know
they just they're just really there to limit the damage.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Really, I think they need a fourth or fifth stump really.
Speaker 10 (42:44):
Even Yeah, it's almost like, I mean, the game has
moved a long way from when you left, and you've
got you basically about a combat left or right handed,
depending on and they can they can change their mind
after the ball has been delivered. Just the whole game
has changed. It's probably not a great one for the purists.
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But but to be honest, I'm a big fan. I
actually I quite like T twenty cricket. I think every
ball is an event and it keeps the fans engaged.
I think those fans at Eden Park tonight are going
to have to definitely stay engaged because you know, the
do'll have for their own safety.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
If nothing else, well, you still can't be the Test match,
but very different. I understand you just one raz das
one the other is just watch paint dry.
Speaker 10 (43:35):
I mean they are two conceives. And don't get me wrong,
I do love my Test cricket. That ability to sort
of drift in and out of the lounge and watch
a sort of session unfold, just the you know, the
different strategies that come into play. But yeah, I would
challenge anyone who sort of sees that it's just hitt
and giggle the T twenty game. I think there's there
is a lot of strategy involved in it now and
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while it is still about sort of bashing the ball
over caw corner, there is there are some tactics that
come into it, and you're seeing teams now playing very well.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
Yeah, he certainly as Hey mate, we're hitting tight for time.
We'll touch on the NPC final quickly, A v Cannaby
and Cannbury Head and heart. What's your what's your head saying?
What's your heart saying?
Speaker 10 (44:16):
No, mate, Look, I don't think I ever would have
thought that I would say this out loud, but I'll
be backing a Targo in this NPC final against Cannaby.
I don't think it's hard unless you're a died in
the wall cantebriy and I don't know how you get
excited about the Red and Blacks winning yet another title.
So I think it would be great for rugby if
Targo could get across the line. And you know, obviously
we've got the two best teams in the competition that
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have made it through to the final sets. All you
can ask for.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
It's quite amazing and I'm just hoping they can use
party at Tony Brown's house is a bit of something
to get them going from twenty five years ago.
Speaker 10 (44:48):
It is a it's a hardy old annual, isn't it. Yeah,
looking to be great. I mean, I think they've Targo
been been the great success story of this NPC campaign.
They've they've grown as the campaign's gone on. They've got
great I meant them. There's some great stories here. They've
got some real good, home, homegrown talent. Hopefully it knocks
on to the Highlanders next year as well. It's just
great that all these trophies are just being contested by
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South Island teams. You sort of wonder what's happening with
North Island rugby at the moment.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
Oh completely, yeah, it's just I don't know, it's just
just good to see we'll see you later at North Island.
We'll cut the cord and let them drift off.
Speaker 10 (45:24):
Will stay here or they'll have a tail one at
the moment, so they probably drift off pretty quickly with mate, would.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
Do all right, Nathan, I need to wrap this up.
I'm afraid to say so. Thank you again for your
time and we will keep in touch in the future.
Speaker 10 (45:39):
Sounds good, thanks mate, but.
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