June 16, 2026 • 43 mins
Olivia Weatherburn talks to Sam Grant, Matt McRae, Veronica Oostveen, Billie Marie Henry, Craig Robinson, and Matt Calder.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The muster with any newer Thanks to Peter's genetics, every
trip means quite a bit when it's from Peter's genetics.
Paknui's five day forecasts with twin farm tear from and
soft text. The proof is in the progeny tear from
dot co dot inzead.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Looking ahead at our forecast the next five days. Thursday
a high of ten of the low of two, light
rain developing in the afternoon, breezy west to northwest winds.
Friday a high of sixteen with the low of eleven, cloudy,
fairly breezy, northerly winds into Saturday thirteen, an overnight.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Low of four, rain, fairly breezy, and those winds are
sticking around. And into Sunday you'll still see those winds with.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Breezy and partly cloudy with a high of eleven and
a low of four. And into our Monday high of
eleven and an overnight low of one, mainly sunny, calm,
variable wits just.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
A girdl on the haven't met in lawh.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Good afternoon and welcome to the Master on Hotui. On
a Wednesday afternoon, The show proudly brought to you by
Peter's Genetics. I am Olivia with a burn filling in
for Andy Welly.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Has a well deserved break.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
And what is a dreary and were underfoot afternoon here
in Gore and around the province. The theme today is
thanks to one of our West Otago correspondents, and we
are looking at epic TV themes of yesteryear. And I
must say a lot of these TV themes TV shows
that were before my time, but I'm sure for a
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lot of you they will spark some memories.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Playing in the background at the moment, good Old.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Boys the Dukes of Hazard theme song they only link.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I have to it as I have a horse called
Waylon Jennings. On the show this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
We're going to start off by heading to Craig's Investment Partners,
where we're going to catch up with Sam Grant talking
markets and how they're steady despite that global uncertainty. Then
we're going to head to Mocker Reader she can be
Farmer Nat McCrae wall prices and what's happening on farm
as well as the latest red meat report and what's
(02:08):
that meaning for our communities. We're going to then have
a catch up with Dairy New Zealand's Veronica Austin Van
who is going to talk a little bit about buyer safety,
so just in regards to those new tenants coming in
and things to think about there.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
And then we are going to head up to bell Cluther.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
We're going to catch up with Telford's Billy Marie on
their experience up at National Field Days last week. They've
also got a six students currently on campus, so what.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Are they up to.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And to finish off the hour, we are going to
have a catch up with Craig Robinson, a tabo farmer
who is also part of jet Boat Marathon river Racing
and that is our link to Men's Health Week this
week and.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
One of those things that you can be doing to.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Get off farm and draw your time. Also in the
hour will catch up with Mark Calleder who will have
as the PGG writes and stock sale report.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Out of the Bellcluther sale.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Now, the wycocka Heyday is coming up next Friday, the
twenty sixth.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
The June entries need.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
To be at the complex by one thirty on the Friday,
so that is the WAYICAKA Combined Sports Complex Judging will
take place from two o'clock with the auction at three
point fifteen and the sections include Meadow, Hay Straw, Baylage
and Lucern And there'll be a prize giving an afternoon
tea after function, sausages and games for the children.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Any inquiries there.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You can contact Peter Corcoran or France's Calvett and all
proceeds of the day will go towards the youth of
the district. So the wycocka heyday next Friday, the twenty
sixth the June.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Right up next we will head too.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Sam Grant from Craig's Investment Partners. You are listening to
the muster brought to you by Peter's.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Genetics, Egg Writes and stock sale reports on the muster.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Hey, well all right too here we'll go there and
what are you going to get for?
Speaker 5 (04:05):
I'm a twenty five to give hood and now five
have another quarter dollars.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
On to get holding out.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Same time of day, we're going to head to the
PGG Rights and Stocks. Our report coming from Aclude, the
sal joined by Mark Korter. Mark has things down there.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Get Abri and yeh in a bit of a cold
sneak today, just a bit of realiity check that winter's
going to turn up to us, but now it's good.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
It's all part of the time.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Of the year keeping them to the sale. We had
a smaller yarding today, but everything's still so well at
that getting them to the prime lames good, he'll be
porn names two sixty two eighty dollars, the medium primes
are two twenty to two fifty any lottering we're one
ninety to two teen Storelims went very strong today.
Speaker 8 (04:45):
Wealth is in at.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Ford store Lams really healthy are and just reflecting that
when the contract market's coming through one eighty to two
hundred and ten dollars for a really good toffee Storelaims
mediums one fifty one sixty five and yeah, tiling were
fifty to ninety dollars prime us. They still really have
their own today too, coming to record with the meat
schedule two sixty three ninety few big hev us teen
(05:10):
to three forty four mediums and in your larter engine
from ninety to one fifty there are only a couple
of pins of rams and today just from tar Alina's
there anyway from one hundred and two one hundred and
twenty dollars. That lets us up their cloth and thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Thanks Mac the muster with Andy Muir. Thanks to Peter's Genetics,
every drip means quite a bit when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Financial Segment with Craig's Investment Partners in Gore. This information
is general in nature and it's not financial advice. Craig's
Investment Partners Limited Financial Advice Provider Disclosure statement can be
(05:44):
found at craig'sip dot com.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Welcome back to the Master.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I'm Olivia Weatherburn and we are now hitting too craig
Investment Partners here and got to catch up with investment
advisor Sam Grant.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Sam, how are you?
Speaker 9 (06:08):
No, it's doing really well, Thank you, Olivia. You're trying
to just to the recent winter weather that survived.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
We've had it so good for so long.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
Oh.
Speaker 9 (06:16):
Absolutely, you know it's been pretty mild winter, wasn't sting
have to moment horns for slate into the year.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
We were talking off here. We've got the TV themes
of Yesteryear. But both you and I we know what
Night Rider and how danger Zone links into it.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
But a little before our times.
Speaker 9 (06:34):
Yeah, no, I remember watching episode when as the kid
and A thought things old back then, so.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
A lot's happening around the financial space at the moment.
Market's steady despite global uncertainty.
Speaker 9 (06:48):
Yeah, so effectively, as probably most listeners are well aware,
there's been a favorite going on sort of geopolitically, particularly
in and around the Middle East with Iran and obviously
sort of disrupting oil supply, which obviously had a bit
of a flow on Effeit, particularly for Sheermer. For what
we have seen, particularly in the last week, is things
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are sort of their volatility is sort of slowed down
a wee bit. Markets up quite a bit for the quarter,
So like the US market alone for the during quarter
is already up about eighteen or twelve percent, but we
did see quite a strong rider in the last week
and at the start of this week with the talks
(07:30):
coming out that there's potential for peace steel or the
head sign of peace steal in Iran. Yeah, obviously mains
be seen how long that will last or whether that's enduring,
but yeah, the markets sort of seem to light the
news and probably seen as well with the sort of
continued AI boom, market sort of look throwing a lot
(07:51):
of that sort of potential geopolitical risks and sort of soldiering.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
On, so continually moving and just sort of watched the
space at the moment.
Speaker 9 (07:58):
Yeah, absolutely, I think things are a lot more positive
than what they were two or three months ago, I
think at best. So it works hopefully, it's a bit
of a lighted the end of the tunnels, given this
little bobbles toldy was seen driven out of the Middle
East and it's a.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Big wig of here for the central banks.
Speaker 9 (08:14):
Yeah, absolutely, So, as we've seen with sort of oil
supplies sort of tightening around the world, what you tend
to get is a bit of inflationary pressure. So as
were where, you know, oil tends to drive most things.
So you think any product you buy anywhere, you know
it's been shipped on a truck or shipped over seas
(08:36):
on ships, and you know the cost to do that,
and there rising oil prices that it thinks that costs
which eventually has to be passed on, so which is
effectively inflationary. So it's starting to see inflation creep back
around the world. Obviously you had a bit of an
easy cycle where interstates have been cut predominantly around the world,
but we're starting to see fewers, a few central banks
(08:59):
sort of Indica and they might have to start increasing
interest rates just to sort of help catail some of
that ventationary pressure. And then in the US yet, I've
got a new chair at the FED as well, as
we'll probably recall Jerome Power, who was the former chair.
I didn't quite see eye to eye with Trump. Trump
was very keen on interest rate cuts, but he's sort
(09:21):
of stayed strong on maintaining their interest rates where they
are due to inflation. So it'll be interesting to see
if there's sort of change of tune coming out of
the FEED which is a bit more aligned with the
current administration.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Does anyone see face to face with Trump?
Speaker 9 (09:37):
Probably those that we've got a few yets men somewhere.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
And do you think this.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
New chair will change things from your perspective? What are
your guys views and regards to what he brings to
the table.
Speaker 9 (09:49):
Yeah, so probably he's a weave more open to cutting
rates effectively to get things moving. But at the end
of the day, you probably still see the FED being
recently independent from the administration, which is what you want
to see in your central.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Bent and SpaceX has made the massive market debut. For
those of haven't heard whose SpaceX is tell.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Us a little bit about that.
Speaker 9 (10:16):
Yeah, so SpaceX was originally set up by Elon Musk,
sort of well known these days, but only as sort
of the all of the main sounder of Tesla is in.
SpaceX has sort of been a space exploration company which
has been quite aspirational, sort of looking at doing things
(10:39):
like colonizing Mars would be some of the more extreme things,
but then the more commercial things being like Starling, which
is sort of well known through the WORL sector in
terms of the satellite Internet. So it does have some
really good commercial parts to it. Yes, effectively they done
an IPO, so initial public offering in the US. What
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made it really interesting is they only effectively sold off
four percent of the company, so ninety six percent of
it was still held by the private shareholders who held
it before it listed, so pretty small portion, but yeah,
effectively valued the business well into the trillions now, so
it was effectively one of the biggest IPOs we've ever seen.
(11:22):
Sort of had an initial jump in the share price
about thirty one percent on day one, and it's now
sort of locking it up so sort of odd percent.
I think it's topped out at after about three days
of trading, but yeah, sort of on some massive valuations coming.
Don't make a lot of money at the moment. Yes,
you're kind of buying a story weaver it, so it'll
(11:44):
be interesting to see what happens over the next sort
of a month or two because Big Drive as well
be a lot of those private shareholders I'm glad to
sell this year is until sort of middle July, so
as they come out at escot if you could see
quite a bit of selling pressures, you know, the stories
of people engineers and worlders and stuff who managed to
(12:05):
pick up she is as part of the employee shar escheme.
There'll be in millionaires effectively, so be interesting story to
see what comes over there here.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, I was going to say, with his debut to
that market, how it's going to fit and the flow
on effect from that for everybody else.
Speaker 9 (12:21):
Yeah, and then the other thing as well as SpaceX
defectively trans transition onto a bit of a AI name
as well, and we've got sort of potentially n topic
and open AI looking the list as well before the
end of the year.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
So I'll watch.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
This space if anyone wants to come and have a
chat to you, go Sam where they find you.
Speaker 9 (12:39):
Yeah, so at one Street opposite the Gore New World.
Otherwise you and give us a call on two O
nine one five three or the exact dot com.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Cool, Thank you very Muchlea's Sam Grunt from Craig's Investment Thattners.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
We're now heading it down.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
To Rocker Reddit, going to catch up with Matt McCrae.
See what's been happening on farm down.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
There the Muster with Adiemure thanks to Peter's Genetics. Every
drop means quite a lot when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
The Times.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Welcome back to the Muster on a Wednesday afternoon. We're
heading down to Macarita to catch up with Matt McCrae.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Sheep and beef farmers and got the.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Baywatch theme song as we go through a theme of
the epic TV themes of.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Yesteryear and talking off year.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Matt, not much correlation with Baywatch and shifting stop today,
Dan and Macreata.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Yeah, and I love there's not much corrolating at all today.
We gentle fifteen mills around overnight. We bit sticky on
the foot, but it's been pretty colm to us so far.
That winter turns up in winter, and you know that
we'll get a bit more of it. But yeah, certainly
dreaming of doing that on a boat would be quite
(14:23):
good on day spot today turning around in the mud.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Oh well, as you say, once you get past the
shortest day, summer is a little bit closer.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
So you're nearly there.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
Yeah, can I tuck around pretty quickly. So we haven't
scanned anything yet, but we'll get on to that next week.
Get through the studs in a few early years, so
it'll be interesting to say where they sit. But yeah,
another year alter aroun pretty quick, doesn't.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
It It does indeed, and over winter feeding, starting scanning
and that down, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Just odd jobs? And have you got some stuff to
clean up from those storms l last year?
Speaker 8 (14:59):
Yeah? Yeah, slowly getting on top of that. There's always
a bit of fencing that kitch up on a few
other jobs, but yeah, just in once a mode. We've
got kews on grazing at the moment. And if you
are the months of young stock ons, we'll get through
skinning in the next week a fortnight and there and
put air use on for a month as well. I'll
(15:20):
get well. Usually you all grass wanted, but tiling them
up on a bit of regret tret. No, at the moment,
I've learned what a licht tenses, and yeah, see how
they go on net. But I was in a bit
of the day at the moment. It's been nice to
just have been a couple of weeks at home for
a change.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Some good news out there for sheep families at the moment,
all prices are continuing to climb, and are those crossbred
fleeces like risen by eight to eleven percent, and some
of those average fleeces now reaching around seven dollars forty kilograms.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
So we're heading in the right direction, aren't we.
Speaker 8 (15:57):
It's good to see, isn't it. Yeah, any less, broak
Evan has been well received one certainly in their industry,
so good to see while pulling its weight. But hopefully
there's a bit of room to keep checking on up
and hopefully it's sustainable. But I just caught up with
my mum was down for a couple of days earlier
(16:18):
in the way, and we were just talking like wolves.
Probably back to the level now what it was thirty
years ago. So if you put inflationary pressures on that,
we probably needs to still double to be in today's
terms what they were getting and they were at stage
in their career. Definitely, Yeah, throw the challenge out to
the industry leaders. It's certainly got talking about a positive
(16:39):
news story, but yeah, it'd be great to keep the
screws on them and try and extract as much earlue
as we can out of it.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah, this is only the start line, not the finish
and we'll hope that maybe the announcement that Tom McClay
and Mark Patterson had at Field Days last week, the
boosting those returns and the primary accepted growth contributing eight
million to the twenty million dollar project lead by Wall Source,
and that is meant to help scale up some of
(17:07):
those productions of wild drive particles, powders, pigments and the
likes and potentially turn some of our wool into three
D printing materials, personal care and textiles, which is just
taking that wall to a whole new level other outside
carpets and garments.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
Yeah, that's some pretty cool technology, isn't it Good to
see the industry looking for those alternate sources and ways
to make it more profitable. But alike, from a non
farm level, we've just done away bit of sharing on
one of the blocks of ust rags, keeping quality, quality
of fleets and doing the things on farmed when those yeah,
(17:46):
people do pay premiums for that high prospered wall, and yeah,
making sure we keep it on. I've always been a
believer of the lock air shape of being a dull
income source. The wall and the mets. This just one swordsolate,
bingle and behind. So it's good to see that it's
under full of bit more wet and overall.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Across the red meat sector, things are pretty positive at
the moment, Like everythink is kind of up in the
in their highs.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
And there was.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
A report put out a couple of weeks ago commissioned
by the Meat Industry Association and Beef and Land New Zealand,
and sixty four million dollars per day of direct spending
heading in to from agriculture, financial services, that road transport,
et cetera. That relates back to the red meat sector.
And that's got a real big flow on effect to
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ensuring that we have these great communities that we're living.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
And working in.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
Absolutely, it's good to put some numbers around. I guess
it's a bone of the rural communities isn't it in
shaping basins scrung an increasingly big part of that with
a bit of extra return slang and now, but it's
it's all the jobs come along with it, as the
(19:01):
report highlights. But yeah, it's good to say, and there's
still a bit of potential in it and it yet
but I guess it reinforces some of the messaging around
when you go to a highly owner governments and councils
and things like that, that we we've got a bit
more sway than what they perhaps give us credit for
at times. It's good to see a few of them
acknowledging it in the last week or two.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Yeah, still New Zealand's second ladgest goods exporters, so real,
huge contributor to the overall economy.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Found the and met.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
You've got staff as well you in regards to employment stuff,
how things look that front for you guys.
Speaker 8 (19:39):
No, we do have stuff obviously an over and property
as well, so we've got a few members between here
and there. But and yeah, we've been very fortunate with
the stuff that we've got on been probably six years
ago I'm ported for us stuff and growing up to
the reporter, been very lucky. Like you say, I'm playing
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good pace people and have managed to retain retain them
pretty well. Had a guy that's been with us for
six years retire this year after being on the property
for over thirty years. And yeah, but it's pretty easy
when you've got to live in a good community and
(20:20):
as long as you've provided a good role in paywell,
they seem to love it out here, which is good,
So very lucky. But it's also a huge learning curve
for people in the industry because traditionally sitcomers, especially in
this area, haven't been big enough to employ people, so
it's it's definitely a learned art.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Oh know, well, it sounds like there's plenty to keep
you busy at the Macarena. Matt, thank you very much
for having a chat with us, and all the best
for the rest of winter.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Oh cheers.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
That's Matt McCrae down at the Macarena next to the Master.
We are hitting to catch up with Veronica EUSt In
Vain from Deary in z where we're going to chat
houses and fu general fire safety within the home.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
The muster with Andy Muir. Thanks to Peter's genetics, every
drop means quite a lot when it's from Peter's genetics.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
We ain't gonna sad.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Welcome back to the Master for a Wednesday afternoon, the eighteen.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
We're not gonna take it for epic TV themes of Yesteryear.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Today and on a Wednesday, we head to Darry and
z to catch up with them for a bit of
dairy insight. And I am joined this afternoon by Veronica. Veronica,
how are you this afternoon?
Speaker 8 (22:00):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (22:00):
All good, very good.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
So today you wanted to chat a little bit about.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Actual house chicks and as we're into winter fires.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Yeah, correct, it is that time of year. It's also
a risky time of year because there's lots of fires
being lit all around Southland to try and keep everyone warm.
It was about four degrees at our place last night,
so yeah, the frost is on. I think, yeah, it's
just getting a bit cold out there. Like you know,
you're gonna heat pumps or fires out there and there's
(22:32):
a real risk I guess the houses. If you have
someone coming on farm or you're going on farm, you're
coming into a situation we have a fire where you
used to maybe have like diesel heating or electric heat pump.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
It just probably takes a.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Bit of a conversation with those people, like double checking, Hey,
you used a fire before, this is how to light it,
This is you know, this is the source, this is
how to keep it going, and this is some of
the health and safety around it, like you know, not
hanging the pajama is on the on the fire guard overnight,
and you know, not storing the bits of cardboard behind
(23:06):
the behind the fireplace, little little hents like that to
keep the house safe.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
You don't know what you don't know, do you?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
And for some people it may seem pretty self expantory.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
This is how you light a fire. For someone who's
had an air B and B. I can tell you people.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Who have not lit fires before, they definitely have not
lit fires before, so you might be able to tell them,
but actually go and actually physically demonstrate with them is
the best way to do it.
Speaker 8 (23:33):
One hundred percent.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
Yeah, definitely. And I think like now there June's usually
house check months for farms, so you know, those those
that have moved in you might be doing kind of
like a sixty day check in July, or the ones
that have been on farm, you're kind of doing those
June house checks so now is a good time to
actually get in there and check what the setup is
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like where they're actually storing the wood and the and
the fire source, and also show them how to do it.
It's also probably a good time to just mention how
to actually keep the house warm, Like I know, there's
this saying of like burt the house if you know
what I mean, so decently.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah, yeah, just like a baby, need to burn the
hairs during the winter, get some of it stalelier.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
At fresh here in.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Pull the curtains open if you're coming back so that
the sun can come in as well. It all helps
with hating the hairs.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Yeah, exactly. So if you're like if you're driving around
on farm and you're noticing you know, farmhouses with curtains
still closed around lunchtime, which is totally doable because if
people are leaving early in the morning to go shift crops,
they're not getting back to lunchtime anyways. But just reminding them, like, hey,
make sure you open your curtains when you get home,
just so that you get the heat going in the house.
(24:47):
Probably the other thing to check right now around that
fire safety bit is around your fire alarms in the house.
You know, they need to be within three meters of
a bedroom or in every sleeping area, and you can
find more information about that on the Tendency Services website
about kind of you know, the ins and outs of
where those need to be and what you need to install.
(25:07):
The other thing is that you also want to make
sure that you're getting your chimney slapt once a year
something good to do, probably more in the autumn before
they get lit, but it's all right. If you've left
it and it's now this time of year, that's fine too,
but it's still good to do it. Do it anyways,
even in the middle of winter. So yeah, just to
keep everything nice and safe, and.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
As that landlord, having supply of dry wood, making sure
that they're burning dry woods fire gads should they be needed,
especially with young children, and actually giving people the tools
in the toolkit to ensure that they can do this,
not just expecting that they're going to be able to
come up with themselves. If you can provide them with
(25:50):
the tools, then it's more likely to happen. You're protecting
your own asset being that house.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
Yeah, absolutely, And speaking of asset protection, it's nice to
have a conversation with tenants around contents insurance. So speaking
from personal experience, you know, we have actually had a
near miss with the house fire and our own property
and it's just one of those freak accidents things, because
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that happens with fires and houses, you know, that's.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
Just how it is.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
And yeah, and then after that happened, we had a
conversation with everyone on farm about getting contents insurance, like
renters contents insurance, because they weren't aware that our insurance
that we have of the house doesn't actually ensure any
of their contents. So again it's just it's not saying
that they have to get it to be a tenant,
but it's just from just having those conversations with the
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people that we have on farm, just in case there
is an accident, that they don't lose everything in the fire,
you know that they have they have insurance on their
things and they can they can get things again.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
And when you go back to those smoke a lambs,
I hear that you can get bluetooth smoke alambs. They
link to your phone as well, but you can when
one goes off saying the laundry. They're all linked and
so it'll actually send them all off could be annoying
if you're someone who burns a toast all the time. However,
it makes sure that if you are sleeping and say
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the one in the kitchen went off, you are you sleeping.
It just gives you the extra little bit of time
to be able to get out of the house or
to be able to rectify the situation.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
So some real cool technology out there.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
And the New Zealand Fire and an Emergency pages also
have some great information for people to look up as well.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
Yeah, there's heaps of information out there. And I think, yeah,
I think if you if you are putting new stuff in,
there are rules on the Tendency website about what you
can put in, so they need to be like the
photographic ones. And yeah, if you can't upgrade to that system,
like you were saying, what, they're all connected. That's that's
fantastic technology.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
And yeah, we don't we don't.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
We want to make sure everyone gets home safe from fire,
but also when they're at their home, we want to
make sure they're safe due So yeah, that's just in
the back of every every employer's mind.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Of course, any key events coming up that we need
to know about.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Yeah, so We've got a couple of big events over
the winter. So this Friday we've got that Sustainable Darry
Gross Field Day at John Pemberton's. We have Calving Smart
coming up that's in late June. We also have people
Expo in the thirtieth of June. And then this isn't
on the website yet but coming is. There'll be some
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Calving barn Field days in eastern and western Southland in
the middle of July and that'll be on the website soon,
if not hopefully today or this week. So yeah, so
have a look at the website.
Speaker 8 (28:44):
If any of those interests you go into the South.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
And Otago event stage you can see all the information there.
Please do register your farm team for Calving Smart that's
happening across four different locations in Otago and Southland, and
that one does seem to be registered.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
For Cool, So hell long the darien Zid website there
and register and it's plenty to keep you busy over winter.
Thanks very much for catching up this afternoon for Roka.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Thanks sir. We're on a care there from dairyen Zid.
Next up we're hitting Tibot Kruper. We were going to
catch up with one of the team from at Telford.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
They're up at field Days last week's see how it
was going and what's happening on campus.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
The muster with Andy your thanks to Peter's Genetics. Every
trip means quite a bit when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Welcome back to the Master On a Wednesday afternoon, I
have a tiger from a Guiver. Of course, as part
of our epic TV themes of Yesteryear and Survivor Survived,
they did National field Days last week and the team
from Telford headed on up there and I'm catching up
with Billy Marie from Telford this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Billy, how are you good?
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Good? Happy to be here?
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Billy?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
You are employed at Telford. Tell us a little bit
about your role there and what that entails.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
So I work with schools and doing what's of school visits,
but I also get to do lots of trips around
the country to careers Exposed and of course the field Days.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Yeah, so big trip to National field Days last week.
What was the vibe up there and talking to students
around the place.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Conversations around where Telford is or what we are are
becoming more and more common, so people actually came to
find us. They targeted us and Wednesday, Thursday, Friday were
extremely busy on the stands. We were non stop talking.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
So a lot of general interest in people wanting to
be part of our wider primary industry and agriculture sector.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Then absolutely, Yeah, we have got kids that are really
keen to you know, learn hands on training. That's something
that we definitely provide. We've also got kids that are
super into the equine space as well, so we had
lots of students ranging from all sorts of different interests.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
You've currently got eighty six students on.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Site at the moment, is that right correct?
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Yeah, so we've got eighty six. We're up on twenty
students from last year, so we are growing.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
And what are they up to at the moment heading
into another semester.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Diplomas, they have midyear exams, so that's on the sleek.
The rest of them are really focusing on their book,
trying to get it all done over winter so we
can really maximize on the time. You know, when spring hits,
everyone's just you know, all hands on helping out. So yeah,
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they're learning things like butchery. We've got some sensing going
on our rural Animal Health students are working on their
Nasty and Physiology exam this week and I eat quine
wrapped up about three weeks ago, and yeah, that course
will come back from break in a few more weeks.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
From here where we usually see the likes of the
Tailford students going from after they've completed their studies.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
I think the work experience component in the Farming System's
course is huge for that we really do rely on
all of our workhost farmers and as we know, we're
all a very small community trying to reach the very
similar goals. So within that students gain really awesome references
and then those references really help get them jobs post graduation.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
So it talk us a little bit about your work
Hex because the students aren't just on campus, they're heading
out onto farm and just said from quite a wide
range of different farms as well, I understand correct.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Yeah, we've got a list of seventy different farmers that
go all the way up to Glenavy, back down through
the Southland and across to Fjordland, so it provides plenty
of perspectives. We all know that people like to run
their farms differently, which provides another added challenge to the
learning experience for all of our students. So throughout the term,
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throughout the year even there will be timetabled weeks where
students will spend one week each on a farm. They
will help out the farmer do what they're doing throughout
the week and across the year that can provide different
jobs as we all know that can vary from months
to months, so they really just immerse themselves and learn
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off twelve different people over the year, which is really cool.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
And Tafford recently received a bit of a boot from
the government. What does that mean to you guys at
Telford being able to keep helping with that workforce into
our sector.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Oh, it's honestly incredible. We're so thankful. It meant that
we can finally give our campus a well overdue facelift.
For example, we're starting with the new broofing in July,
so that will be the first project amongst many and
we're really excited to see what can come of that.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Thank you very much for catching up with me, Billy,
and all the best for the students as they head
into the exams and the rest of the year, and
we look forward to catching up here.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Wonderful thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Gil. Thanks Billy, that's Billy Marie.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
They're out of Talford to finish the hour today. Going
to go a little bit different, as they say, when
the cats away, the mice do play. And we are
going to head into central Otago and we're going to
talk jetboat marathon, river racing thing that I know a
number of Otago sapp and farmers are part of the.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Muster with Andy Muir. Thanks to Peter's Genetics, every trip
means quite a bit when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 9 (35:15):
Jamaica.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
We welcome back to the Muster. You're joining us on
a Wednesday afternoon and what.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Has been epic TV themes of yesteryear and that is
Kacoma the Beach Boys, which you guessed it links back
to Magnum p I and.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Our next guest, Susy watched a little bit back in
the day.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
I am now heading up the road a little bit
into central Otago, but has been an a Targo farmer.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Craig Robinson, how are you this afternoon?
Speaker 7 (35:50):
Great?
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Thank you, that's good.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Now, Craig, you tell us a little bit about yourself
and where you're based at the moment.
Speaker 7 (35:58):
Are you we're farming just atic Clyde up by Kerry
Carey Villy and we lease and own about seventy hea
tars and just doing threatening beef at the moment.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Nice and how's the beef cows gown at them as
you go into winter?
Speaker 7 (36:16):
Really good. Yeah, it's been obviously quite mild, not much
in the way of snow on the hill, so yeah,
it's been pretty crazy so far.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
A bit of a change for you. You've come from
a much bigger operation in the past.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
Haven't you.
Speaker 7 (36:31):
Yes, yes, well used to they have about twelve hundred
hectares and up at Walden Knew we sold that two
marches ago and moved up the sway for a change.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Now, why I've got you on today is we've been talking.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
About Men's Health Week this week as well, and one
of those things about keeping well is also being able
to get off farm And I know a lot of
a targo south and farmers are part of the sport
that you are part of, and that is jet boat
marathon river racing.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
So I thought it would just be good to have
a catch.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Up and understand what it's all about and what all
the fuss is about really as well.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
So tell us what is jetboat marathon racing?
Speaker 7 (37:17):
Yes, well, it's basically racing the rivers that we have
in New Zealand, mostly in the South Island at the moment,
so there's not a lot of boats, but there's been
a growing number again to the sports starting to look
(37:37):
reasonably good. And you know, we just start at a
point like Winton and make our way up to the
Dipton or Lumston sort of thing, and then needs to
turn around and come back and on the short legs
(37:58):
like that, you will repeat it in there for noon
and on the bigger rivers in Canterbury or race one
way in the morning and back in the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Yeah, so you're racing against the clock and like how
does that work?
Speaker 7 (38:13):
Or generally on the tighter rivers which most ones we race,
they will start us off at minute intervals and they
normally try and seed us for what they perceive to
be the fastest boat first of the slowest boat last,
and hopefully if all goes well, you should have the
(38:35):
river to yourself. But obviously sometimes they get it wrong
or you make mistakes and there's a need to pass boats,
which is never easy with the brewster tails that we
have out the back of water, you can't see a
lot behind you, so it can be interesting at times,
but generally they try and keep us apart.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
So for someone who.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Is not a jetboat connoisseur like myself, tell us a
little bit about the.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Boats and what you actually need.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Is it just your standard jipboat that farmers have in
the back shed or is there something special about these
boats at racing?
Speaker 7 (39:14):
And well, it started off as your standard boat in
the shed, but obviously as Tom moved on that it
became more specialized. So most of us are running what
they call it tunnel hole, which allows the air to
get underneath the boat and lift it up to make
it more efficient. And they range awebit and length from
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nineteen for the smaller classes right up to twenty three
twenty four for the unlimited turbine boats.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
I was always told that if you wanted to have
a feel of what jipboating.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Was like, stand in a cold shower and check money
around at what they say. Is it an expensive sport
or is it just like anything else. What you put
in is what you get out.
Speaker 7 (40:06):
Yeah, probably it is a bit of both. I guess
they have started a class which they call fx EVO,
which is a speed restricted class and it can be
quite a cheap way of getting into the sport, right
up to the unlimited turbine boats, which is in some
(40:30):
of the A class boats that are running these days,
had more expensive to set up and run.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
And when does the season run from and tool? So
are you racing at the moment or is it off season?
What's usually? I presume when it's fishing season, you're not
taking out the fishermen.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
How does it work?
Speaker 7 (40:49):
Yeah, it's sort of kind of an all year round
top thing. It's not a lot of races. We've been
trying to stay out of the world into months in
recent years because obviously it gets quite cold, so if
you end up in the water it's not too good
for the health, and also fog can be quite an
(41:12):
issue in the morning. So they've been trying to sort
of race the warmer months. But then you get into
the March months and you can end up with rivers
with three little water in them, so it's sort of
a bit of a compromise between the two. So we
raced in Canterbury about three weeks ago over two rivers,
the Require and the Wimack and then annex races on
(41:35):
the South and at the end of September, and then
following race after that will be across New Zealand four
day race and that's in November, and then we normally
start again and sort of end of March and then
those off months.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
I'm sure there's maintenance and things to do to make
sure that boat's going to be the fastest.
Speaker 3 (41:57):
Is what do you get or what are you and
always the most about.
Speaker 7 (42:00):
It, Craig, Oh, I guess it's it's the same and
a lot of motorsports. It's sort of the adrenaline are
going fast and competing against other people. Yeah, it's probably
and we sort of enjoy being in the rivers and
looking at the countries there or when the South Island,
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mostly the different places it takes.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
Yeah, I can imagine you'll see some great scenery along
the way.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
If people want to find out more about jetboat Madison
River Racing, how do they go better.
Speaker 7 (42:33):
Well, mostly through the local organization and New Zealand Jet
Boat Association. It's usually the easiest way to start with
the jet boating and then once yes sort of in
the game us, yes, your meat up with people at race,
but it's the New Zealand River Racing Association as the
(42:57):
actual organization that looks for us.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
Cool. Well, there you go, folks. If you're looking for something.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
New to add to the hobbylist, maybe jetboat Marathon river
Racing is for you.
Speaker 3 (43:09):
Thank you so much Craig for catching up for a chat.
Speaker 7 (43:13):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (43:14):
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Speaker 3 (43:38):
Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
I've been Olivia with a burn, filling in for Andy
Muir as he takes that well deserved break. We'll be back,
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Paknui's five day forecasts with twin farm tear from and
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dot co dot inzead.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Looking ahead at our forecast the next five days. Thursday
a high of ten of the low of two, light
rain developing in the afternoon, breezy west to northwest winds.
Friday a high of sixteen with the low of eleven, cloudy,
fairly breezy, northerly winds into Saturday thirteen, an overnight.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Low of four, rain, fairly breezy, and those winds are
sticking around. And into Sunday you'll still see those winds with.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Breezy and partly cloudy with a high of eleven and
a low of four. And into our Monday high of
eleven and an overnight low of one, mainly sunny, calm,
variable wits just.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
A girdl on the haven't met in lawh.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Good afternoon and welcome to the Master on Hotui. On
a Wednesday afternoon, The show proudly brought to you by
Peter's Genetics. I am Olivia with a burn filling in
for Andy Welly.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Has a well deserved break.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
And what is a dreary and were underfoot afternoon here
in Gore and around the province. The theme today is
thanks to one of our West Otago correspondents, and we
are looking at epic TV themes of yesteryear. And I
must say a lot of these TV themes TV shows
that were before my time, but I'm sure for a
(01:31):
lot of you they will spark some memories.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Playing in the background at the moment, good Old.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Boys the Dukes of Hazard theme song they only link.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I have to it as I have a horse called
Waylon Jennings. On the show this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
We're going to start off by heading to Craig's Investment Partners,
where we're going to catch up with Sam Grant talking
markets and how they're steady despite that global uncertainty. Then
we're going to head to Mocker Reader she can be
Farmer Nat McCrae wall prices and what's happening on farm
as well as the latest red meat report and what's
(02:08):
that meaning for our communities. We're going to then have
a catch up with Dairy New Zealand's Veronica Austin Van
who is going to talk a little bit about buyer safety,
so just in regards to those new tenants coming in
and things to think about there.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
And then we are going to head up to bell Cluther.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
We're going to catch up with Telford's Billy Marie on
their experience up at National Field Days last week. They've
also got a six students currently on campus, so what.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Are they up to.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And to finish off the hour, we are going to
have a catch up with Craig Robinson, a tabo farmer
who is also part of jet Boat Marathon river Racing
and that is our link to Men's Health Week this
week and.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
One of those things that you can be doing to.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Get off farm and draw your time. Also in the
hour will catch up with Mark Calleder who will have
as the PGG writes and stock sale report.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Out of the Bellcluther sale.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Now, the wycocka Heyday is coming up next Friday, the
twenty sixth.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
The June entries need.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
To be at the complex by one thirty on the Friday,
so that is the WAYICAKA Combined Sports Complex Judging will
take place from two o'clock with the auction at three
point fifteen and the sections include Meadow, Hay Straw, Baylage
and Lucern And there'll be a prize giving an afternoon
tea after function, sausages and games for the children.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Any inquiries there.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You can contact Peter Corcoran or France's Calvett and all
proceeds of the day will go towards the youth of
the district. So the wycocka heyday next Friday, the twenty
sixth the June.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Right up next we will head too.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Sam Grant from Craig's Investment Partners. You are listening to
the muster brought to you by Peter's.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Genetics, Egg Writes and stock sale reports on the muster.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Hey, well all right too here we'll go there and
what are you going to get for?
Speaker 5 (04:05):
I'm a twenty five to give hood and now five
have another quarter dollars.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
On to get holding out.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Same time of day, we're going to head to the
PGG Rights and Stocks. Our report coming from Aclude, the
sal joined by Mark Korter. Mark has things down there.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Get Abri and yeh in a bit of a cold
sneak today, just a bit of realiity check that winter's
going to turn up to us, but now it's good.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
It's all part of the time.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Of the year keeping them to the sale. We had
a smaller yarding today, but everything's still so well at
that getting them to the prime lames good, he'll be
porn names two sixty two eighty dollars, the medium primes
are two twenty to two fifty any lottering we're one
ninety to two teen Storelims went very strong today.
Speaker 8 (04:45):
Wealth is in at.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Ford store Lams really healthy are and just reflecting that
when the contract market's coming through one eighty to two
hundred and ten dollars for a really good toffee Storelaims
mediums one fifty one sixty five and yeah, tiling were
fifty to ninety dollars prime us. They still really have
their own today too, coming to record with the meat
schedule two sixty three ninety few big hev us teen
(05:10):
to three forty four mediums and in your larter engine
from ninety to one fifty there are only a couple
of pins of rams and today just from tar Alina's
there anyway from one hundred and two one hundred and
twenty dollars. That lets us up their cloth and thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Thanks Mac the muster with Andy Muir. Thanks to Peter's Genetics,
every drip means quite a bit when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Financial Segment with Craig's Investment Partners in Gore. This information
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Speaker 3 (05:56):
Welcome back to the Master.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I'm Olivia Weatherburn and we are now hitting too craig
Investment Partners here and got to catch up with investment
advisor Sam Grant.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Sam, how are you?
Speaker 9 (06:08):
No, it's doing really well, Thank you, Olivia. You're trying
to just to the recent winter weather that survived.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
We've had it so good for so long.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
Oh.
Speaker 9 (06:16):
Absolutely, you know it's been pretty mild winter, wasn't sting
have to moment horns for slate into the year.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
We were talking off here. We've got the TV themes
of Yesteryear. But both you and I we know what
Night Rider and how danger Zone links into it.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
But a little before our times.
Speaker 9 (06:34):
Yeah, no, I remember watching episode when as the kid
and A thought things old back then, so.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
A lot's happening around the financial space at the moment.
Market's steady despite global uncertainty.
Speaker 9 (06:48):
Yeah, so effectively, as probably most listeners are well aware,
there's been a favorite going on sort of geopolitically, particularly
in and around the Middle East with Iran and obviously
sort of disrupting oil supply, which obviously had a bit
of a flow on Effeit, particularly for Sheermer. For what
we have seen, particularly in the last week, is things
(07:10):
are sort of their volatility is sort of slowed down
a wee bit. Markets up quite a bit for the quarter,
So like the US market alone for the during quarter
is already up about eighteen or twelve percent, but we
did see quite a strong rider in the last week
and at the start of this week with the talks
(07:30):
coming out that there's potential for peace steel or the
head sign of peace steal in Iran. Yeah, obviously mains
be seen how long that will last or whether that's enduring,
but yeah, the markets sort of seem to light the
news and probably seen as well with the sort of
continued AI boom, market sort of look throwing a lot
(07:51):
of that sort of potential geopolitical risks and sort of soldiering.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
On, so continually moving and just sort of watched the
space at the moment.
Speaker 9 (07:58):
Yeah, absolutely, I think things are a lot more positive
than what they were two or three months ago, I
think at best. So it works hopefully, it's a bit
of a lighted the end of the tunnels, given this
little bobbles toldy was seen driven out of the Middle
East and it's a.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Big wig of here for the central banks.
Speaker 9 (08:14):
Yeah, absolutely, So, as we've seen with sort of oil
supplies sort of tightening around the world, what you tend
to get is a bit of inflationary pressure. So as
were where, you know, oil tends to drive most things.
So you think any product you buy anywhere, you know
it's been shipped on a truck or shipped over seas
(08:36):
on ships, and you know the cost to do that,
and there rising oil prices that it thinks that costs
which eventually has to be passed on, so which is
effectively inflationary. So it's starting to see inflation creep back
around the world. Obviously you had a bit of an
easy cycle where interstates have been cut predominantly around the world,
but we're starting to see fewers, a few central banks
(08:59):
sort of Indica and they might have to start increasing
interest rates just to sort of help catail some of
that ventationary pressure. And then in the US yet, I've
got a new chair at the FED as well, as
we'll probably recall Jerome Power, who was the former chair.
I didn't quite see eye to eye with Trump. Trump
was very keen on interest rate cuts, but he's sort
(09:21):
of stayed strong on maintaining their interest rates where they
are due to inflation. So it'll be interesting to see
if there's sort of change of tune coming out of
the FEED which is a bit more aligned with the
current administration.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Does anyone see face to face with Trump?
Speaker 9 (09:37):
Probably those that we've got a few yets men somewhere.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
And do you think this.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
New chair will change things from your perspective? What are
your guys views and regards to what he brings to
the table.
Speaker 9 (09:49):
Yeah, so probably he's a weave more open to cutting
rates effectively to get things moving. But at the end
of the day, you probably still see the FED being
recently independent from the administration, which is what you want
to see in your central.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Bent and SpaceX has made the massive market debut. For
those of haven't heard whose SpaceX is tell.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Us a little bit about that.
Speaker 9 (10:16):
Yeah, so SpaceX was originally set up by Elon Musk,
sort of well known these days, but only as sort
of the all of the main sounder of Tesla is in.
SpaceX has sort of been a space exploration company which
has been quite aspirational, sort of looking at doing things
(10:39):
like colonizing Mars would be some of the more extreme things,
but then the more commercial things being like Starling, which
is sort of well known through the WORL sector in
terms of the satellite Internet. So it does have some
really good commercial parts to it. Yes, effectively they done
an IPO, so initial public offering in the US. What
(11:01):
made it really interesting is they only effectively sold off
four percent of the company, so ninety six percent of
it was still held by the private shareholders who held
it before it listed, so pretty small portion, but yeah,
effectively valued the business well into the trillions now, so
it was effectively one of the biggest IPOs we've ever seen.
(11:22):
Sort of had an initial jump in the share price
about thirty one percent on day one, and it's now
sort of locking it up so sort of odd percent.
I think it's topped out at after about three days
of trading, but yeah, sort of on some massive valuations coming.
Don't make a lot of money at the moment. Yes,
you're kind of buying a story weaver it, so it'll
(11:44):
be interesting to see what happens over the next sort
of a month or two because Big Drive as well
be a lot of those private shareholders I'm glad to
sell this year is until sort of middle July, so
as they come out at escot if you could see
quite a bit of selling pressures, you know, the stories
of people engineers and worlders and stuff who managed to
(12:05):
pick up she is as part of the employee shar escheme.
There'll be in millionaires effectively, so be interesting story to
see what comes over there here.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, I was going to say, with his debut to
that market, how it's going to fit and the flow
on effect from that for everybody else.
Speaker 9 (12:21):
Yeah, and then the other thing as well as SpaceX
defectively trans transition onto a bit of a AI name
as well, and we've got sort of potentially n topic
and open AI looking the list as well before the
end of the year.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
So I'll watch.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
This space if anyone wants to come and have a
chat to you, go Sam where they find you.
Speaker 9 (12:39):
Yeah, so at one Street opposite the Gore New World.
Otherwise you and give us a call on two O
nine one five three or the exact dot com.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Cool, Thank you very Muchlea's Sam Grunt from Craig's Investment Thattners.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
We're now heading it down.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
To Rocker Reddit, going to catch up with Matt McCrae.
See what's been happening on farm down.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
There the Muster with Adiemure thanks to Peter's Genetics. Every
drop means quite a lot when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
The Times.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Welcome back to the Muster on a Wednesday afternoon. We're
heading down to Macarita to catch up with Matt McCrae.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Sheep and beef farmers and got the.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Baywatch theme song as we go through a theme of
the epic TV themes of.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Yesteryear and talking off year.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Matt, not much correlation with Baywatch and shifting stop today,
Dan and Macreata.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Yeah, and I love there's not much corrolating at all today.
We gentle fifteen mills around overnight. We bit sticky on
the foot, but it's been pretty colm to us so far.
That winter turns up in winter, and you know that
we'll get a bit more of it. But yeah, certainly
dreaming of doing that on a boat would be quite
(14:23):
good on day spot today turning around in the mud.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Oh well, as you say, once you get past the
shortest day, summer is a little bit closer.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
So you're nearly there.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
Yeah, can I tuck around pretty quickly. So we haven't
scanned anything yet, but we'll get on to that next week.
Get through the studs in a few early years, so
it'll be interesting to say where they sit. But yeah,
another year alter aroun pretty quick, doesn't.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
It It does indeed, and over winter feeding, starting scanning
and that down, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Just odd jobs? And have you got some stuff to
clean up from those storms l last year?
Speaker 8 (14:59):
Yeah? Yeah, slowly getting on top of that. There's always
a bit of fencing that kitch up on a few
other jobs, but yeah, just in once a mode. We've
got kews on grazing at the moment. And if you
are the months of young stock ons, we'll get through
skinning in the next week a fortnight and there and
put air use on for a month as well. I'll
(15:20):
get well. Usually you all grass wanted, but tiling them
up on a bit of regret tret. No, at the moment,
I've learned what a licht tenses, and yeah, see how
they go on net. But I was in a bit
of the day at the moment. It's been nice to
just have been a couple of weeks at home for
a change.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Some good news out there for sheep families at the moment,
all prices are continuing to climb, and are those crossbred
fleeces like risen by eight to eleven percent, and some
of those average fleeces now reaching around seven dollars forty kilograms.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
So we're heading in the right direction, aren't we.
Speaker 8 (15:57):
It's good to see, isn't it. Yeah, any less, broak
Evan has been well received one certainly in their industry,
so good to see while pulling its weight. But hopefully
there's a bit of room to keep checking on up
and hopefully it's sustainable. But I just caught up with
my mum was down for a couple of days earlier
(16:18):
in the way, and we were just talking like wolves.
Probably back to the level now what it was thirty
years ago. So if you put inflationary pressures on that,
we probably needs to still double to be in today's
terms what they were getting and they were at stage
in their career. Definitely, Yeah, throw the challenge out to
the industry leaders. It's certainly got talking about a positive
(16:39):
news story, but yeah, it'd be great to keep the
screws on them and try and extract as much earlue
as we can out of it.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah, this is only the start line, not the finish
and we'll hope that maybe the announcement that Tom McClay
and Mark Patterson had at Field Days last week, the
boosting those returns and the primary accepted growth contributing eight
million to the twenty million dollar project lead by Wall Source,
and that is meant to help scale up some of
(17:07):
those productions of wild drive particles, powders, pigments and the
likes and potentially turn some of our wool into three
D printing materials, personal care and textiles, which is just
taking that wall to a whole new level other outside
carpets and garments.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
Yeah, that's some pretty cool technology, isn't it Good to
see the industry looking for those alternate sources and ways
to make it more profitable. But alike, from a non
farm level, we've just done away bit of sharing on
one of the blocks of ust rags, keeping quality, quality
of fleets and doing the things on farmed when those yeah,
(17:46):
people do pay premiums for that high prospered wall, and yeah,
making sure we keep it on. I've always been a
believer of the lock air shape of being a dull
income source. The wall and the mets. This just one swordsolate,
bingle and behind. So it's good to see that it's
under full of bit more wet and overall.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Across the red meat sector, things are pretty positive at
the moment, Like everythink is kind of up in the
in their highs.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
And there was.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
A report put out a couple of weeks ago commissioned
by the Meat Industry Association and Beef and Land New Zealand,
and sixty four million dollars per day of direct spending
heading in to from agriculture, financial services, that road transport,
et cetera. That relates back to the red meat sector.
And that's got a real big flow on effect to
(18:36):
ensuring that we have these great communities that we're living.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
And working in.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
Absolutely, it's good to put some numbers around. I guess
it's a bone of the rural communities isn't it in
shaping basins scrung an increasingly big part of that with
a bit of extra return slang and now, but it's
it's all the jobs come along with it, as the
(19:01):
report highlights. But yeah, it's good to say, and there's
still a bit of potential in it and it yet
but I guess it reinforces some of the messaging around
when you go to a highly owner governments and councils
and things like that, that we we've got a bit
more sway than what they perhaps give us credit for
at times. It's good to see a few of them
acknowledging it in the last week or two.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Yeah, still New Zealand's second ladgest goods exporters, so real,
huge contributor to the overall economy.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Found the and met.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
You've got staff as well you in regards to employment stuff,
how things look that front for you guys.
Speaker 8 (19:39):
No, we do have stuff obviously an over and property
as well, so we've got a few members between here
and there. But and yeah, we've been very fortunate with
the stuff that we've got on been probably six years
ago I'm ported for us stuff and growing up to
the reporter, been very lucky. Like you say, I'm playing
(19:59):
good pace people and have managed to retain retain them
pretty well. Had a guy that's been with us for
six years retire this year after being on the property
for over thirty years. And yeah, but it's pretty easy
when you've got to live in a good community and
(20:20):
as long as you've provided a good role in paywell,
they seem to love it out here, which is good,
So very lucky. But it's also a huge learning curve
for people in the industry because traditionally sitcomers, especially in
this area, haven't been big enough to employ people, so
it's it's definitely a learned art.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Oh know, well, it sounds like there's plenty to keep
you busy at the Macarena. Matt, thank you very much
for having a chat with us, and all the best
for the rest of winter.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Oh cheers.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
That's Matt McCrae down at the Macarena next to the Master.
We are hitting to catch up with Veronica EUSt In
Vain from Deary in z where we're going to chat
houses and fu general fire safety within the home.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
The muster with Andy Muir. Thanks to Peter's genetics, every
drop means quite a lot when it's from Peter's genetics.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
We ain't gonna sad.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Welcome back to the Master for a Wednesday afternoon, the eighteen.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
We're not gonna take it for epic TV themes of Yesteryear.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Today and on a Wednesday, we head to Darry and
z to catch up with them for a bit of
dairy insight. And I am joined this afternoon by Veronica. Veronica,
how are you this afternoon?
Speaker 8 (22:00):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (22:00):
All good, very good.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
So today you wanted to chat a little bit about.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Actual house chicks and as we're into winter fires.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Yeah, correct, it is that time of year. It's also
a risky time of year because there's lots of fires
being lit all around Southland to try and keep everyone warm.
It was about four degrees at our place last night,
so yeah, the frost is on. I think, yeah, it's
just getting a bit cold out there. Like you know,
you're gonna heat pumps or fires out there and there's
(22:32):
a real risk I guess the houses. If you have
someone coming on farm or you're going on farm, you're
coming into a situation we have a fire where you
used to maybe have like diesel heating or electric heat pump.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
It just probably takes a.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Bit of a conversation with those people, like double checking, Hey,
you used a fire before, this is how to light it,
This is you know, this is the source, this is
how to keep it going, and this is some of
the health and safety around it, like you know, not
hanging the pajama is on the on the fire guard overnight,
and you know, not storing the bits of cardboard behind
(23:06):
the behind the fireplace, little little hents like that to
keep the house safe.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
You don't know what you don't know, do you?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
And for some people it may seem pretty self expantory.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
This is how you light a fire. For someone who's
had an air B and B. I can tell you people.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Who have not lit fires before, they definitely have not
lit fires before, so you might be able to tell them,
but actually go and actually physically demonstrate with them is
the best way to do it.
Speaker 8 (23:33):
One hundred percent.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
Yeah, definitely. And I think like now there June's usually
house check months for farms, so you know, those those
that have moved in you might be doing kind of
like a sixty day check in July, or the ones
that have been on farm, you're kind of doing those
June house checks so now is a good time to
actually get in there and check what the setup is
(23:55):
like where they're actually storing the wood and the and
the fire source, and also show them how to do it.
It's also probably a good time to just mention how
to actually keep the house warm, Like I know, there's
this saying of like burt the house if you know
what I mean, so decently.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah, yeah, just like a baby, need to burn the
hairs during the winter, get some of it stalelier.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
At fresh here in.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Pull the curtains open if you're coming back so that
the sun can come in as well. It all helps
with hating the hairs.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Yeah, exactly. So if you're like if you're driving around
on farm and you're noticing you know, farmhouses with curtains
still closed around lunchtime, which is totally doable because if
people are leaving early in the morning to go shift crops,
they're not getting back to lunchtime anyways. But just reminding them, like, hey,
make sure you open your curtains when you get home,
just so that you get the heat going in the house.
(24:47):
Probably the other thing to check right now around that
fire safety bit is around your fire alarms in the house.
You know, they need to be within three meters of
a bedroom or in every sleeping area, and you can
find more information about that on the Tendency Services website
about kind of you know, the ins and outs of
where those need to be and what you need to install.
(25:07):
The other thing is that you also want to make
sure that you're getting your chimney slapt once a year
something good to do, probably more in the autumn before
they get lit, but it's all right. If you've left
it and it's now this time of year, that's fine too,
but it's still good to do it. Do it anyways,
even in the middle of winter. So yeah, just to
keep everything nice and safe, and.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
As that landlord, having supply of dry wood, making sure
that they're burning dry woods fire gads should they be needed,
especially with young children, and actually giving people the tools
in the toolkit to ensure that they can do this,
not just expecting that they're going to be able to
come up with themselves. If you can provide them with
(25:50):
the tools, then it's more likely to happen. You're protecting
your own asset being that house.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
Yeah, absolutely, And speaking of asset protection, it's nice to
have a conversation with tenants around contents insurance. So speaking
from personal experience, you know, we have actually had a
near miss with the house fire and our own property
and it's just one of those freak accidents things, because
(26:16):
that happens with fires and houses, you know, that's.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
Just how it is.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
And yeah, and then after that happened, we had a
conversation with everyone on farm about getting contents insurance, like
renters contents insurance, because they weren't aware that our insurance
that we have of the house doesn't actually ensure any
of their contents. So again it's just it's not saying
that they have to get it to be a tenant,
but it's just from just having those conversations with the
(26:44):
people that we have on farm, just in case there
is an accident, that they don't lose everything in the fire,
you know that they have they have insurance on their
things and they can they can get things again.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
And when you go back to those smoke a lambs,
I hear that you can get bluetooth smoke alambs. They
link to your phone as well, but you can when
one goes off saying the laundry. They're all linked and
so it'll actually send them all off could be annoying
if you're someone who burns a toast all the time. However,
it makes sure that if you are sleeping and say
(27:16):
the one in the kitchen went off, you are you sleeping.
It just gives you the extra little bit of time
to be able to get out of the house or
to be able to rectify the situation.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
So some real cool technology out there.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
And the New Zealand Fire and an Emergency pages also
have some great information for people to look up as well.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
Yeah, there's heaps of information out there. And I think, yeah,
I think if you if you are putting new stuff in,
there are rules on the Tendency website about what you
can put in, so they need to be like the
photographic ones. And yeah, if you can't upgrade to that system,
like you were saying, what, they're all connected. That's that's
fantastic technology.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
And yeah, we don't we don't.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
We want to make sure everyone gets home safe from fire,
but also when they're at their home, we want to
make sure they're safe due So yeah, that's just in
the back of every every employer's mind.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Of course, any key events coming up that we need
to know about.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Yeah, so We've got a couple of big events over
the winter. So this Friday we've got that Sustainable Darry
Gross Field Day at John Pemberton's. We have Calving Smart
coming up that's in late June. We also have people
Expo in the thirtieth of June. And then this isn't
on the website yet but coming is. There'll be some
(28:33):
Calving barn Field days in eastern and western Southland in
the middle of July and that'll be on the website soon,
if not hopefully today or this week. So yeah, so
have a look at the website.
Speaker 8 (28:44):
If any of those interests you go into the South.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
And Otago event stage you can see all the information there.
Please do register your farm team for Calving Smart that's
happening across four different locations in Otago and Southland, and
that one does seem to be registered.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
For Cool, So hell long the darien Zid website there
and register and it's plenty to keep you busy over winter.
Thanks very much for catching up this afternoon for Roka.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Thanks sir. We're on a care there from dairyen Zid.
Next up we're hitting Tibot Kruper. We were going to
catch up with one of the team from at Telford.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
They're up at field Days last week's see how it
was going and what's happening on campus.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
The muster with Andy your thanks to Peter's Genetics. Every
trip means quite a bit when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Welcome back to the Master On a Wednesday afternoon, I
have a tiger from a Guiver. Of course, as part
of our epic TV themes of Yesteryear and Survivor Survived,
they did National field Days last week and the team
from Telford headed on up there and I'm catching up
with Billy Marie from Telford this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Billy, how are you good?
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Good? Happy to be here?
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Billy?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
You are employed at Telford. Tell us a little bit
about your role there and what that entails.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
So I work with schools and doing what's of school visits,
but I also get to do lots of trips around
the country to careers Exposed and of course the field Days.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Yeah, so big trip to National field Days last week.
What was the vibe up there and talking to students
around the place.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Conversations around where Telford is or what we are are
becoming more and more common, so people actually came to
find us. They targeted us and Wednesday, Thursday, Friday were
extremely busy on the stands. We were non stop talking.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
So a lot of general interest in people wanting to
be part of our wider primary industry and agriculture sector.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Then absolutely, Yeah, we have got kids that are really
keen to you know, learn hands on training. That's something
that we definitely provide. We've also got kids that are
super into the equine space as well, so we had
lots of students ranging from all sorts of different interests.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
You've currently got eighty six students on.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Site at the moment, is that right correct?
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Yeah, so we've got eighty six. We're up on twenty
students from last year, so we are growing.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
And what are they up to at the moment heading
into another semester.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Diplomas, they have midyear exams, so that's on the sleek.
The rest of them are really focusing on their book,
trying to get it all done over winter so we
can really maximize on the time. You know, when spring hits,
everyone's just you know, all hands on helping out. So yeah,
(32:11):
they're learning things like butchery. We've got some sensing going
on our rural Animal Health students are working on their
Nasty and Physiology exam this week and I eat quine
wrapped up about three weeks ago, and yeah, that course
will come back from break in a few more weeks.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
From here where we usually see the likes of the
Tailford students going from after they've completed their studies.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
I think the work experience component in the Farming System's
course is huge for that we really do rely on
all of our workhost farmers and as we know, we're
all a very small community trying to reach the very
similar goals. So within that students gain really awesome references
and then those references really help get them jobs post graduation.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
So it talk us a little bit about your work
Hex because the students aren't just on campus, they're heading
out onto farm and just said from quite a wide
range of different farms as well, I understand correct.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Yeah, we've got a list of seventy different farmers that
go all the way up to Glenavy, back down through
the Southland and across to Fjordland, so it provides plenty
of perspectives. We all know that people like to run
their farms differently, which provides another added challenge to the
learning experience for all of our students. So throughout the term,
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throughout the year even there will be timetabled weeks where
students will spend one week each on a farm. They
will help out the farmer do what they're doing throughout
the week and across the year that can provide different
jobs as we all know that can vary from months
to months, so they really just immerse themselves and learn
(33:54):
off twelve different people over the year, which is really cool.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
And Tafford recently received a bit of a boot from
the government. What does that mean to you guys at
Telford being able to keep helping with that workforce into
our sector.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Oh, it's honestly incredible. We're so thankful. It meant that
we can finally give our campus a well overdue facelift.
For example, we're starting with the new broofing in July,
so that will be the first project amongst many and
we're really excited to see what can come of that.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Thank you very much for catching up with me, Billy,
and all the best for the students as they head
into the exams and the rest of the year, and
we look forward to catching up here.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Wonderful thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Gil. Thanks Billy, that's Billy Marie.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
They're out of Talford to finish the hour today. Going
to go a little bit different, as they say, when
the cats away, the mice do play. And we are
going to head into central Otago and we're going to
talk jetboat marathon, river racing thing that I know a
number of Otago sapp and farmers are part of the.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Muster with Andy Muir. Thanks to Peter's Genetics, every trip
means quite a bit when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 9 (35:15):
Jamaica.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
We welcome back to the Muster. You're joining us on
a Wednesday afternoon and what.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Has been epic TV themes of yesteryear and that is
Kacoma the Beach Boys, which you guessed it links back
to Magnum p I and.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Our next guest, Susy watched a little bit back in
the day.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
I am now heading up the road a little bit
into central Otago, but has been an a Targo farmer.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Craig Robinson, how are you this afternoon?
Speaker 7 (35:50):
Great?
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Thank you, that's good.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Now, Craig, you tell us a little bit about yourself
and where you're based at the moment.
Speaker 7 (35:58):
Are you we're farming just atic Clyde up by Kerry
Carey Villy and we lease and own about seventy hea
tars and just doing threatening beef at the moment.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Nice and how's the beef cows gown at them as
you go into winter?
Speaker 7 (36:16):
Really good. Yeah, it's been obviously quite mild, not much
in the way of snow on the hill, so yeah,
it's been pretty crazy so far.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
A bit of a change for you. You've come from
a much bigger operation in the past.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
Haven't you.
Speaker 7 (36:31):
Yes, yes, well used to they have about twelve hundred
hectares and up at Walden Knew we sold that two
marches ago and moved up the sway for a change.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Now, why I've got you on today is we've been talking.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
About Men's Health Week this week as well, and one
of those things about keeping well is also being able
to get off farm And I know a lot of
a targo south and farmers are part of the sport
that you are part of, and that is jet boat
marathon river racing.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
So I thought it would just be good to have
a catch.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Up and understand what it's all about and what all
the fuss is about really as well.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
So tell us what is jetboat marathon racing?
Speaker 7 (37:17):
Yes, well, it's basically racing the rivers that we have
in New Zealand, mostly in the South Island at the moment,
so there's not a lot of boats, but there's been
a growing number again to the sports starting to look
(37:37):
reasonably good. And you know, we just start at a
point like Winton and make our way up to the
Dipton or Lumston sort of thing, and then needs to
turn around and come back and on the short legs
(37:58):
like that, you will repeat it in there for noon
and on the bigger rivers in Canterbury or race one
way in the morning and back in the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Yeah, so you're racing against the clock and like how
does that work?
Speaker 7 (38:13):
Or generally on the tighter rivers which most ones we race,
they will start us off at minute intervals and they
normally try and seed us for what they perceive to
be the fastest boat first of the slowest boat last,
and hopefully if all goes well, you should have the
(38:35):
river to yourself. But obviously sometimes they get it wrong
or you make mistakes and there's a need to pass boats,
which is never easy with the brewster tails that we
have out the back of water, you can't see a
lot behind you, so it can be interesting at times,
but generally they try and keep us apart.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
So for someone who.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Is not a jetboat connoisseur like myself, tell us a
little bit about the.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Boats and what you actually need.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Is it just your standard jipboat that farmers have in
the back shed or is there something special about these
boats at racing?
Speaker 7 (39:14):
And well, it started off as your standard boat in
the shed, but obviously as Tom moved on that it
became more specialized. So most of us are running what
they call it tunnel hole, which allows the air to
get underneath the boat and lift it up to make
it more efficient. And they range awebit and length from
(39:37):
nineteen for the smaller classes right up to twenty three
twenty four for the unlimited turbine boats.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
I was always told that if you wanted to have
a feel of what jipboating.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Was like, stand in a cold shower and check money
around at what they say. Is it an expensive sport
or is it just like anything else. What you put
in is what you get out.
Speaker 7 (40:06):
Yeah, probably it is a bit of both. I guess
they have started a class which they call fx EVO,
which is a speed restricted class and it can be
quite a cheap way of getting into the sport, right
up to the unlimited turbine boats, which is in some
(40:30):
of the A class boats that are running these days,
had more expensive to set up and run.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
And when does the season run from and tool? So
are you racing at the moment or is it off season?
What's usually? I presume when it's fishing season, you're not
taking out the fishermen.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
How does it work?
Speaker 7 (40:49):
Yeah, it's sort of kind of an all year round
top thing. It's not a lot of races. We've been
trying to stay out of the world into months in
recent years because obviously it gets quite cold, so if
you end up in the water it's not too good
for the health, and also fog can be quite an
(41:12):
issue in the morning. So they've been trying to sort
of race the warmer months. But then you get into
the March months and you can end up with rivers
with three little water in them, so it's sort of
a bit of a compromise between the two. So we
raced in Canterbury about three weeks ago over two rivers,
the Require and the Wimack and then annex races on
(41:35):
the South and at the end of September, and then
following race after that will be across New Zealand four
day race and that's in November, and then we normally
start again and sort of end of March and then
those off months.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
I'm sure there's maintenance and things to do to make
sure that boat's going to be the fastest.
Speaker 3 (41:57):
Is what do you get or what are you and
always the most about.
Speaker 7 (42:00):
It, Craig, Oh, I guess it's it's the same and
a lot of motorsports. It's sort of the adrenaline are
going fast and competing against other people. Yeah, it's probably
and we sort of enjoy being in the rivers and
looking at the countries there or when the South Island,
(42:22):
mostly the different places it takes.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
Yeah, I can imagine you'll see some great scenery along
the way.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
If people want to find out more about jetboat Madison
River Racing, how do they go better.
Speaker 7 (42:33):
Well, mostly through the local organization and New Zealand Jet
Boat Association. It's usually the easiest way to start with
the jet boating and then once yes sort of in
the game us, yes, your meat up with people at race,
but it's the New Zealand River Racing Association as the
(42:57):
actual organization that looks for us.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
Cool. Well, there you go, folks. If you're looking for something.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
New to add to the hobbylist, maybe jetboat Marathon river
Racing is for you.
Speaker 3 (43:09):
Thank you so much Craig for catching up for a chat.
Speaker 7 (43:13):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (43:14):
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Speaker 2 (43:24):
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That's us for another day on the muster on Hokanui.
Speaker 3 (43:38):
Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
I've been Olivia with a burn, filling in for Andy
Muir as he takes that well deserved break. We'll be back,
same time, same place tomorrow. The show Proudley brought to
you by Peter's genet X. Have a great afternoon.
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