October 29, 2025 • 46 mins
Chris Wilson talks to Jason Herrick, Geordie Eade, Tom Fraser, Lyn Berry, and Nathan Burdon.
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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 (00:21):
Good afternoon, everybody, and how can we Radio Land. This
is Chris Wilson stepping in for Andy Mirror on the
Muster for today, Thursday, the thirtieth of October. On the
show Today, we've got a wee bit coming up. We
do have Jason Herritt con Federated Farmers, just what's happening
around the district, obviously in regards to clean up and
a few other things going on. Geordie Eid farmer from
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Riverton with his mixed farming operations, see touch on how
he's got on with that event last week and how
his spring's tracking. Tom Fraser from Beef and Lamb just
around pasture management, Clayton Peters from Peter's Genetics, The Harriet
Farm covering of just chat around things that are happening
in the area, and Nathan Burdon with the sports rap
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at the end of the show, fired up by laugh
out loud. Thanks very much to Class Harvest Center for
allowing me the time to come in and do this
program again once again for Andy today our music is
from an excess. Just sort of thought we'd go a
little bit upbeat. Things are looking a bit brighter out
there today, with the weather a little bit less wind,
a bit warmer, So yeah, we'll just get on with
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the long range forecast.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Five day forecasts brought to you by twin Farm teff
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Speaker 2 (01:38):
Today Thursday, the thirtieth of October, high fifteen a live six,
partly cloudy, the odd share from the afternoon, more frequent
and possibly heavier this evening. West least strong this afternoon.
Tomorrow Friday, the thirty first of October, the last day
of the working week and the last day of the
month of October, high have twelve a Las three rain
before dawn, then fine. Westerly is becoming strong for a
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time in the afternoon. So Saturday, the first of November
a high of sixteen a lower five fine where the
westerly is easing in the evening. Sunday, the second of November,
my father's birthday, Heavy birthday, Lucky Robert, high of nineteenlave
eight party cloudy. Northwesterly is developing Monday, the third of November,
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a high of twenty one, low of eleven and a
few showers some norwesterlies.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Anyway, let's get on with the show YEPGG.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Rights and stock sales report, all right, and with the
latest news from the livestock sales and gore Andrew Martin
made hair gun.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Yeah, get our cross sales things good?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Thanks? Yeah, how did it go today?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
We probably had a bit of a falling off of numbers,
which is not totally surprising. I would imagine there's a
lot of farmers dealing to damage and but some pieces
on their farms and getting getting surplus off stock off
the farm's probably not a priority. But for what was
there continuing to sell very well. With lambs, particularly the
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old season's lambs on board, I would start being mindful
of getting them off with teeth coming through. There was
quite quite a reduction and price once they do pop through.
But I'll just buzz through the pricings here for you today.
The best of the lambs today. There the very heavy
end with two eighty through the three hundred and thirty dollars,
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second draftings at two forty through to two seventy, and
the lighter end on the primary our lambs were sort
of one seventy through about two hundred dollars local trade
rams best of those at eighty second puts at fifty
to sixty, lighter edge at thirty to forty dollars, and
the mutton mutton is continuing to sell extremely well. The
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heavy end of the mutton is second cut of mutton
one sixty two to one ninety and the lighter end
of the pine mutton around the fifty with the very
bottom edge the very very bottom sort of a seventy
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to ninety dollars mark. Yeah, pretty much wraps it up.
As I say, smaller to moderate yarning. But we'd expect
forward that those numbers start to pick up as much.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
It just a better winter.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Fingers crossed.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, let's all hope. So thanks very much, Andrew pgg right.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Son, cheers, Chris, thank you the master.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Proudly brought to you by Peter's Genetics. Every drip means
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Speaker 7 (04:56):
Oh well, Missy.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
With us on the show this afternoon. We've got Jason
Herrick can Jason from the Federated Farmers. He is can Jason,
how do you get nine.
Speaker 8 (05:12):
Yeah, and I put my foot on the ground now
and then the starting to run, which is good.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Hell, I mean you were an aussy when I spoke
to you a week ago. You would have come back
to a couple of different sites, I'd imagine.
Speaker 8 (05:24):
Yeah, so the weather event that hit last Thursday, I
was an ausy at the time, and my phone started
going pretty hot, and yeah, it was very surreal some
of the conversations that were coming through. And yeah, so
it's been a bit of a different story coming home
and seeing all the damage and talking to people firsthand.
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Not only that, just a little bit of divis to
our property.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
As well, you know.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
So, yeah, we'll get through it, just like anybody else.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It would have been like from what you were hearing
in Aussie and then what you got home to see,
could you imagine imagine the scale of it or was
it I mean it's hard to know. Was it worse
or better than you thought? Or what was your gut
feeling when you when you were away and then as
opposed to when you got home. I guess.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (06:11):
So when I got home and traveling down the main road,
it appeared it wasn't as bad as what I thought.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
It was going to be, and then I went off
the beaten track. I just got in other.
Speaker 8 (06:20):
Parts of the Southland and yep, nope, it's definitely quite
a bit of destruction out there, and you know, you've
got to get your heart sort of think the weave
it when you see it first for the first time.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
It's all very well hearing it, but.
Speaker 8 (06:32):
It's definitely a lot different when you see it.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, it's kind of like apocalyptic scenes in a way.
It's very We're not used to that sort of thing,
are we. We might have a bit of flooding and
a wee bit of drive a wind that's done that,
and the short space is probably only an hour or so.
It was just phenomenal, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
It was.
Speaker 8 (06:51):
And to only get four to fifteen to twenty minutes
warning to most people wouldn't have got the warning and
unless you were looking at the site or or listening
to the radio, you know, and it just smashed people
and they would just take them by surprise really, and
you know, some pretty horrid stories out there at the moment.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
So I'm saying a bit of resilience and pragmatism from farmers.
I'm guessing you'll be saying much the same totally.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
And that's something that Southern farmers or New Zealand farmers
in general have in space, right, and they're pretty upbeat
and first jump jump to attention and jump in and
help out their neighbors and help out the other locals.
And it's one thing the South ender is a very
good act helping one another. And my biggest concern for
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a lot of those community oriented people out there is
looking after themselves first, because if you don't look after yourself,
you end up burning yourself out and you won't be
able to help other people. So you know, my message
to everybody out there is to take heat and look
after yourself first and then and then put yourself out there.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You completely little to anyone else if you're a haggard mess.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
Yeah, exactly, you know. And we're coming into the time
now where clean up is going to start happening, and
you don't want to be fatigued when dealing with down
trees and so on.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
That's right. But I'm looking at what I'm seeing, and
Gore got off relatively lightly, particularly northern South, and really
was quite lucky. But I'm saying a lot of it
is just dangerous. Really if you're going in there with
a chain where you really need to dig alongside. You
have to prevent any unforeseen issues or making sure that
things are swiped out of trees that are still hanging
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there too. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (08:32):
And in my previous life before farming, I was an
arborist and forestry worker, and I've seen some pretty horrendous
outarms from fallen trees. And got to remember that a
fallen tree, just because it's laying on the ground, it
doesn't mean it doesn't have much pressure on, especially with
the root system still attached. So you know, taking care
and being careful around that, especially with operating chainsaws and
heavy machinery. Just be very careful. You know, we're very
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lucky to get away with no fatalities when they're storm
hit YEP, with trees coming down, So we wouldn't want
to see any fatalities coming out of the cleanup.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
No, No, We've been lucky to have done so far.
Speaker 8 (09:08):
Yeah, exactly. And I did hear one up in the
Nelson Bay area right during the cleanup. You know, they
had no fatalities during the event, but a fatality from
a farmer happened in the cleanup and under those seconds.
Stuff very careful of it.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah. Yeah, and the sharing nature too. With generators, they
weren't enough to go around, but people managed to cobble
together to make sure animals have water, could do some milking,
barbecues were essential. So I think all in all a
little underprepared as a province, but we've come through it
really well.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Oh totally.
Speaker 8 (09:45):
Yeah, we're very, very underprepared for emergency management point of view,
and some things could be done a lot differently. There
just goes to show how vulnerable we are to the
network with all the calm colms going down as well,
and people weren't able to notify that they had no
power or they had issues and so on. So you know,
we've just got to take a learning from this and
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set things in motion and set things up for the future,
because I mean there's no doubt this sort of stuff
will happen again.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah too, right, and I'm assuming well, reading the updates
that I see more than once a day, there's still
power out in places. We're still under a state of emergency.
Do you know how much longer that it's going to
be for or.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
Yeah, So currently we still have just over four thousand
homes without power and around South and Power needs to
report it to us that this this next stage is
going to take some time to fix because they're all
individual cases where power lines are going through private property.
So now it's just getting you know, you're not they're
not fixing the main trunks and connecting hundreds of homes
up at times at a time. They're doing one at
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a time now, So you know, it's going to take
a little bit of time because there's still a lot
of snap power lines and power poles on the ground
and those things take time to replace. So we're just
going to work alongside them and make sure we're supporting
those communities in need and that everybody's well fears taken
care of and if anybody has anything out there that
they need help with, don't be afraid to reach out completely.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
And the people that are working on doing God's work
really and they can only get to one place at
a time, unfortunately, but that's just the way it is, isn't.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
It It is? And we've got a lot of a
lot of unsung.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Heroes out there.
Speaker 8 (11:19):
I don't want to acknowledge all of those unsung heroes,
and in the support services that are there, and and
electricians and plumbers and anybody that was out there that
could do it was doing it. And you know, I
do want to do a wee bit of a shout
out actually to one of my own executive team members,
Old cats Ralberh. He's a he's a hero out there
with a bit of a cape on in Criyke. He
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was out there involved in the community helping shifting generators around,
getting generators and stuff hooked up, as well as talking
and meeting with emergency managements south And while I was
over an Aussie and you know, he's he's definitely a
man who deserves a bit of an acolade.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You've got to love that, yeah, him, And I know
of a number of others too, So those guys, I
absolutely agree with you. There's there's a lot of people
owe them a huge dear of gratitude.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
Absolutely, and I'm going to try and get around as
many of them as I can to personally thank them
for all the efforts and hard work that they put
in and in our local MP is a big shit
out that both Pinnion and Joseph had done a fantastic
job over this time as well, getting around the community
and meeting up with some of those unsung here.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Absolutely all right, Jace, we might wrap it up with you.
I'll leave you to it and get back to your
day job. So thank you for your time and we'll
catch up later.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
You're welcome, thanks question, cheers mate.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
And we'll leave it again.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
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Speaker 2 (12:54):
Well, the sneaks on the show. We've got Jordy Eid
a Riverton farmer, dairy farmer and sheep beef farmer. And
the music today is an excess. JEORDI better kiss the dirt.
I'm not sure if anyone wanted to kiss it. There
was plenty flying a week or so ago. How are
you guys fearing through.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
All that, Chris, Yeah, no, I think it's just where
it would kiss. Anything with the life will end of
the past week. But power back on a dairy farm
used to that at two o'clock and the home farm
at eight o'clock. So no, it's there's been a mount
of Marve's turnaround. But yeah, it wasn't a smooth week.
And generators. We're onto our third generator. The dairy farm.
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But yeah, well we've got there.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
There is a long stretch through the well. That's six
days essentially, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah, well, yeah, up about one hundred and fifty one hours,
which actually didn't sound that long. But yeah, no, I
mean we were certainly getting into camping mode. We're able
to resurrect our home farm. We managed to get the
generator onto the hot water, so we're able to use
a sync there shower for all the neighbors and so no,
that that worked really well, and I mean at the
end of the day, you know, it was experience and
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we're going to look back on probably a bit like
COVID lockdown.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Well let's hope it's just the one off, not like
the lockdowns.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Yeah, I went off I when purchased a generator for
the dairy farm last Tuesday, but it doesn't arrive until
ninth of November, so that didn't really do much use.
But you know, we're going to have to definitely have
something going forward to future proof their businesses.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
See sorry you didn't, did you have to tip any
milk out or you could.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
We had a local Carfrera that rears a couple of
thousand cars, so he was alwa, come and take it.
So there was about three days there year. Yesterday we supplied,
so we're back on the board. So yes, our fingers
crossed about that first lot of milk going back on
the VAT. But I'm seeing some good stories then. I mean,
I hope that Frontira come to the party afterwards and say, yet,
good experience. We won't grade you on this milk, so
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we'll wait and see.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
You on that.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah, surely, surely there's some leniency there in some direction,
whether it's I might be you know I've had in
the past with the merits but no financials. You'd take that,
wouldn't you.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yeah, you would take that. I mean, at the end
of the day, that's probably we weren't dumping. It was
going to a good cause. But you know, you're just
scared to get those two merits and if you get that,
the help count really high, and you know you've got
that on your paper the rest of the year. Really
and I mean, you know, we we ran and we
got milking right, but then we ran into issues are
running out of water, so we had the generator for
the boar.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
So you know what I thinks it was.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
One step forward too back well.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Image.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Yeah, hopefully it's two forward every day from now.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Because it's still they're still peaking. You probably just a
be abule to slide down the other side. But I
guess if you can hold it and it's a little
warmer today, maybe a bit of grass growth.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
The cow's milking this morning there was only two hundred
meters less than what they are milking, you know, teen
days ago. You know, we're hopefully back there. And the
grass covers of pretty taken a hiding too, but that
probably the situational head probably isn't has helped that because
we were on once a day for three days, so
you know, we could slow them down of it, so
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you know, there might be some good mating rates out
there and come out of this, you know, puzzes off
on that side.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
And what about the sheet and beef side of the property.
How did the I mean, I guess your biggest concern
is fences and tree lines, you know, taking fences out
and stop getting out everything.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yeah, everything was okay there. I mean that sort of
looked back on it, and it's quite a bit easier
when you don't have to know cows. But you know,
I was starting to run down other things of the
electric fence being off. About day four, Jack, there have
to a generate her and that the SEMs starting to
get a bit of management because calves have going where
they liked. And but you know, looking back, I think
we're going to we're all set up now, you know,
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like we found a little generator. We can actually get
our central heading on in the house by about day five.
Just all those little things that how they made you know,
about day four we had a shower and like you know,
little things that like they felt like.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Eaven on Earth at the creature comforts.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally yeah. But I mean, you know,
the weather forecast looks good after today is a wee
bit of a bliff and rain coming through today. But
we've just had the helicopter put some your ear on
today and so hopefully, you know, when that heat comes
next week, we're ready to go. And I mean probably
on the outside, you know, we yes ours. I mean,
the dairy farm's got about thirty forty odd trees down,
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but you know it's not that they're all just down
on paddocks and not across lanes or it's contracted job
to come and fix it. But it's not immediate, and
that's probably something I need to get out there, is
that we need to probably be careful of that. Cockies
don't go and do this stuff themselves because those big
trees have stumps on them. They widow makers, I think
(17:41):
after this sort of tones down, but I think we
need to have a management team of figures and people experience,
people going around clearing these for people.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I think. So I was talking to him mate about
that yesterday and just even you know, I know there's
a massive, massive run on those power claws for front
of laders and tally handlers, but I don't know. I
think if it's a big, big tree, just maybe you
get a contract around its roots were already out. Just
lifted off and put it over the fence and be
done with it. It saves catching your fence because they're
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more with fences around. You've got to have someone handy
to be behind that stump to clear the fence out
of the way. There's just lots of little things.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Oh yes, only and that stump can be as heavy
as the tree itself and they're not taking the pressure
off it and trying to chain saw it. It's yeah,
I had to make to Lincoln has there got killed
in the winds in Canbury and I think there were
twenty two yep. So you know, I know sort of
personally that you know how it can affect. And I mean,
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he just didn't turn up for lunch. And we definitely
don't want that.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
You know.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
We we survived all this about anybody get ninjaed, and we,
for goodness sake, don't want to have it happen.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
That would be the tragedy of it, really, like the
big tragedy, wouldn't it. People survive in the event, and
then it's the cleanup that gets them.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Yeah, And I know, you know, like I'm just trying
to clean a bit there of my own. But I mean,
you know, you got trees that are still hung up
on trees and you know what, you know, that's the
things You clear it and then all of a sudden
turn around and there's a tree coming down behind you.
So at least at the same time it's still windy too. Yeah,
do you say I'm not touching eything today? I'm doing
a bit of stock working about the place. We'll just
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hold up their calves from the dairy farm to get
them off the platform because and that was a funny.
Another thing, as they're starting to go where they liked
when they realized that about day three that there was
no lectric fences on. So yeah, so I've just the
platform to my home block and you know, just have
sort that from the biggies and littles because they had
been weaned, so just to finish them off before they
go to a grazing block.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Yeah, and to be fair, it is reasonably common now
with young stock that a lot of people do have
a couple of battery units with a solar panel too,
isn't it. So a lot of that stuff could be managed,
particularly for young stock.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
So I got a generator hooked onto it down there,
and I worked a tree. Really but you've got the
water pump going, the water pump for the house, and
the same the electric fence tune and the same shep
so kill two birds of one stone, I.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Said yesterday, who's doing exactly the same thing. Well he's
going to get back up for it anyway.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
So yeah, yeah, look, but no on the on the
lamb side, you know, that still looks pretty positive. You know,
I read a bit of Keith Woodford's articles probably say
that it's going to come off of it, but I'd
hope it doesn't because I mean, let's keeping probably the
shed and bee farmer pretty cheery. No, perhaps we might
get a ten dollars or near enough to it, and
they're winning drafts that would you know, that's a good
light at the end of the tunnel for us.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yeah, it's well deserved. It's been years of how the campaign.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Oh yeah, yeah, and you're right about that, you know,
just to be sort of three three dollars a more
than last year's We'll take that absolutely.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yes. I guess everyone always worries about what's around the
next corner, where I think, just take it for what
it is.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
A huge shout out to the emergency management team in town.
They were great the whole time. I had problems with
generators and ever thinking. They were absolutely awesome. The only
difficulty I had was getting their actual phone number the
day the day after it happened. I had obviously because
we're going to have to run and cross those bridges later,
but the communications was impossible that I could only get
anything through text messages. So yeah, I Textean Carson to
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get that phone number. Once I got the phone number,
we were away and they're absolutely brilliant. And I mean
at the end of the day, you know, pow needs
have done their job and got round and I mean
a massive task. You I'll take the head off to
them to.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
You right, hey, look mate, I'm sorry to cut you short,
but everyone has done a sterling job and amazing work.
So we'll leave it there and we'll catch up again
later on and all the best and hopefully things pick.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Up good as gold sun come out will be way mate. Cheers, jeez,
Thanks Chris.
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 (21:59):
Wells. Next, we've got Tom Fraser from Beef and Lamb,
New Zealand to talk about pasture management and the whole
song Baby Don't Cry. Tom could be quite relevant to
what happened in the last week or so with the
weather and well soils, trees, all sorts of things. How
(22:20):
are you getting nine anyway?
Speaker 7 (22:22):
I'm getting on fine. So I'm based in Canterbury. I'm
actually just signed contract to beefon Lamb. I used to
work for at Research in forests and later on in
my life, I became involved very much and flamp stuns science.
So yep, that takes all the different components. And yeah,
while I'm based in Bandabury, I was a south and
(22:43):
the born and bred from the Tiana Basin.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yeah, well that takes a lot of goals down here obviously.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
Yeah, so that was back in the nineteen seventies. So
that obviously tells people that are listening that I've been
around for a while and been through all sorts of
floods and earthquakes and excuse me on fires and winds,
et cetera. So I've had a wee bit of unfortunately,
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had a wee bit of experience and the aftermath of
these events.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
You know what they're all about, though, And obviously you
look at it with milk payouts and tough times. It's
not as fair as radio. There is light at the
end of the tunnel, always, isn't there.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
Yes, Well, luckily at the moment, just the way farm
prices are product prices are looking, is that things are good.
I mean we could before we were a coup of
three years ago where milk payer wasn't great, Lamb was
pretty bloody ordinary, and Wall was a disaster.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
But at least.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Looking forward for the next twelve months, hopefully a bit longer.
Product prices are looking pretty good.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yes, and it's a little bit too of you know,
eye on the future, but also taking it for what
it's worth right now and eccex and knowing that it's
good and enjoying it because I think sometimes you're that
busy thinking forward, aren't further ahead, that you lose sight
of what's actually happening right now.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
Yes, and it's very difficult times.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
It's only a week since the big event.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
Both in south and Incluther and also in North Canterbury.
The farms that they are suffering, not that's the same
widespread extent, but individual farms are protectively with their center
for the derrogators.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Which is a major for ken. If they don't get
the water on that that's really causes a big effect,
doesn't it. Yes.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
And also unfortunately at the moment we're looking potentially going
into quite an early drought right and some southern farmers
will be struggling to understand that at the moment. There
can saw conditions at present. But our rainfall, we had
a good rainfall early in winter and we've had birth
faith virtually no rainfall since so I saw moisture levels
(25:03):
alow and people have been irrigating now for the last
three weeks, I guess.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Yeah, right, so it's just business as usual really already. Yeah, yeah, which,
well three weeks ago you start of October. It seems
quite early, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Yes, it is, it is.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
It's probably at least three weeks early for most irrigators.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
And so obviously there's a challenge with the irrigators that
have been damaged. There's only so many of those technicians
to repair them that can go around. What's a general
scenario like some of them could be quite a number
of months, is that right?
Speaker 6 (25:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (25:38):
There's two parts of One is the technical staff and
there recently sit on the ground obviously, don't just sit
around waiting for an event like this, No. And the
second thing is just a sheer volume of parts. Yes,
it's not like just putting up and boulder, and it's
bringing in parts from overseas. Is only a limited amount
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of spare parts that the companies keeping in the country,
So everybody be plaid out trying to bring in inventry.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
In three months a pack or is it just you can't.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
The wee but like the South and farmers waiting to
see when they can get their trees cleaned up. Yes,
we'd love it to happen next week, but it could
be three months, and in some cases in South.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
And it could be six months.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
But I think the thing that we need to.
Speaker 7 (26:29):
Concentrate on as farmers is concentrating on the things that
we can have an effect on and not on those
that are out of our control. So it's easy for
me to sit back here and say, you know, things
have not been good, but they will get better. Now
there's a lot of farmers sitting around saying, yes, all
(26:49):
right for him to say that, but they will get better.
And if you can actually put your energies into the
events and the management systems on your farm that you
can have an effect on, yep, that is important. And
also to concentrate on the things that you're good at.
(27:11):
And farmers are good at farming, Yes, they're not necessarily
good at driving a digger, yep. So leave that cleaning
up the trees to the diggers. And you know, it
may take three months, it may take six months, and
it may not be nice to look at, but that's it,
provided you've got your boundary venss and a bit of
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control of your stock and you've got good stock water.
It's an eyesore looking at those trees are lying down
on the ground, and it can be inconvenient, but is
it really having a major effect on your production? On
farm production?
Speaker 2 (27:47):
And that's right, you're right, it's an inconvenience. Doesn't look
very good, but that's it, yeah, once it's all said
and done. But also, I guess so it's a matter
for farmers is so much where they start. And the
first thing you've got to do is sometimes just start,
doesn't matter where. Just you know, it's like putting the
fence up where you how wide are we going to
(28:08):
make the track? Where we're going to put the gates
next year, Let's just put the first trainer post in
and we'll go from there.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Yes, And once you've started, then you can just build
on that, and it takes time and just be patient.
I guess that's the main thing.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
But I know that.
Speaker 7 (28:24):
Most of southern has had a pretty tough winter and
a bloody awful spring, and pasture covers are not good,
so even prior to the when things weren't looking great
for this year's early But I do know the southern
climbate pretty well, and I do know the past to
growth rates in South and unfortunately or fortunately, perhaps I
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can assure you that when pasture covers are low in
South and at the end of October of which we're
at now, you're going to have a very good legume
growing season in decent Guin in February. Okay, So that
is a positive look forward to because I know pasture
covers are low, but as the temperatures increase, and they
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will increase, yes, then the leaguames will because they haven't
got that competition from the grasses. It's not the big
pasture covers there. The leagums will respond very very well.
And for your young stop growing, particularly post weining, then
you are going to have good leaguings in your pastures
(29:33):
and you're going to get good animal performance.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Well, I'm sure that gives plenty of good stuff that
people look forward to. Look Tom, Honestly, I could sit
and talk to you all day, but we're pretty well
runn out of time. I'm sorry, so we'll have to
wrap that there. Thank you very much for your time,
and where we'll see you another time and catch up.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
Okay, that's great, Thanks very much.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
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Speaker 2 (30:16):
Okay, you're back on the Muster now with Chris Wilson
and with me this afternoon. I've got Lynn Barry and
a friend of hers from Germany, and apologies to Peter's Genetics.
We were unable to get hold of those guys today,
so we'll try and catch up with him later in
the week. How you getting on.
Speaker 9 (30:33):
Oh, I just peachy at this short notice.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yeah, very very sorry about that. I'm not sure if
it was a mix up in phone numbers or just
people busy and not having their phone near them. So
you've managed to see us right, probably for a change.
Speaker 9 (30:47):
Probably with the way things are down here, everybody's probably
pretty busy, so I'm pretty flexible most of the time.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, And I guess while they're on cleanup mode,
the farming life story has to go on. So they
just getting done what they've got to get done, aren't they. Yes,
they are.
Speaker 9 (31:06):
We've just driven down from home account to day and
I must say was a little bit surprised coming through
Westertago I thought there'd be a lot more carnage, but
apparently like there's some areas that have been really smashed.
So yeah, it's good.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
You've got to get lucky sometimes, haven't you.
Speaker 9 (31:22):
Oh'd been nice if I've got lucky sometimes.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
But you know, so what are we going to talk
about today with you?
Speaker 9 (31:29):
I thought we would talk about these lovely little yellow
leagued hornets that have been found up in Auckland just
this week, a new pest that's been somehow got into
New Zealand. They got into France about two thousand and
eight in timber from China, so they survived the trip
(31:50):
all across the sea or however they got were being transported,
and they've actually caused a lot of trouble around in
Spain and France. They pray on honeybees, that's I know,
and they reduce the population of the honey bees over
in front by about thirty percent. And the follow on
(32:11):
issues with that is that less honey bees, less pollination,
poor pollination, and some of their crops over there have
suffered quite a bit because they just don't get the
yields because the bees aren't there to pollinate them.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Always, something isn't there I know.
Speaker 9 (32:27):
So what these little fellows do is in the wintertime,
the queen over winters and in the winter spring she
wakes up, goes and finds some carbohydrate rich food because
she needs lots of energy to start building this little
we call it a nest.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
And the.
Speaker 9 (32:45):
First nest that she builds is usually on a man
made structure and it's like a little ball. So she's
busily constructing that and she's laying eggs in there, and
then she gets when they hatch, she gets some workers
to help her. And what they do is they go
out and they find honeybee nests and they what they
call hooking. They sit out in front of the nest
(33:07):
where the bees come in, and they grab the worker
bees and take them away to their nest, and they
can kill up to twenty five to fifty worker bees
a day to go and take the food back to
the nest and for the new pupa that are hatching,
so that stops the hives like goes into shocks sort
(33:28):
of and that they don't want to go out in
the forage, and then that reduces the amount of honey
and the amount of larvae and some it just doesn't
usually kill the hive, but it severely reduces the population.
So that happens all over summertime and then in the
autumn they they have about up to three hundred and
(33:52):
fifty of these they call them guyans, which are future
queens hatch yep and plus about three times the number
of males as well, and they these females get fertilized
and then they will go away in the autumn and
then they will over winter. But we're a bit lucky
because not all of them, the vast majority of them
(34:15):
actually die off well, and then they start all over again.
But they do have a secondary hive. If the hive
gets too big and then they start this reproduction stage,
they'll go and build a little hive in the vegetation somewhere.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
See anything to survive, like any peace, really, isn't it?
Speaker 9 (34:31):
Oh yeah, it all reves around food and reproduction.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Really, what do we do to prevent or kill?
Speaker 9 (34:38):
Like?
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Can we take out bee populations by trying to deal
to these?
Speaker 9 (34:41):
We've got to keep them out for a start, because
there's only been three females found this week. They found
a male I think it was last year up in Auckland.
But if they get established, there's really no way to
eradicate them.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Once they've established found three. There may be more, it
could be more.
Speaker 9 (34:58):
They've got mpi's working really hard. It's like the fruit
fly outbreaks that they find up in Auckland. They'll be
pretty they'll be pretty good at cleaning them up when
they find them. But if you find a nist round
looking nest dangling from your eaves or whatever, and the
insect in them looks like an oversized wasp, yep, then
(35:20):
contact MPI straight away, yep, straight away, and they can
come and take the hives away, and then they can
put up pheromone traps and stuff to find them as well.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Oh, that sounds like it could be a disaster. Let's
hope they keep a lid on that.
Speaker 9 (35:33):
Yeah, well, with our honeybeans have big enough problems as
it is with wasps and with borrowo might as well.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
So that's right. And so as we sort of mentioned
earlier touched on you've got a friend from overseas well.
Speaker 8 (35:47):
Yeah, you know I do.
Speaker 9 (35:49):
I do work away and I have travelers come and
stay with me. So for her sins decided that I
look like a good place to come and stay. To
start her experienced New Zealand. So she's been and she's
just great. She's fitted in really well and she's really
easy care.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
She does what she's told for now most times.
Speaker 9 (36:11):
Yes, so we've given her a good look around, so
she might like to comment on what she's her first thoughts.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
In New Zealander. Welcome. Sorry I can't get your name properly.
Speaker 7 (36:22):
It is silly.
Speaker 10 (36:23):
It's a complicated name.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
That's not too bad. Once I keep the heat around it,
it'll be fine. How have you found it?
Speaker 10 (36:31):
Yeah, it has been an amazing time. So I learned
a lot about gardening, especially at Lynd's place, a lot
about farming, animal care, and just met a lot of
people that are just great. Everyone is here, Everyone here
so friendly.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Plenty of farmers around. Are you from a farming area
in Germany?
Speaker 10 (36:51):
Like a little village but not with a lot of
farms anymore. Yes, it's great, a whole different world here.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Look, I'd love to talk to you more about it,
but we are running out of time. But thank you
for coming on the show, and the pair of you
at late notice, and good to meet Yazilia and I
hope you enjoy your travels around New Zealand and doing
whatever you're doing. Thank you and thanks Lynn.
Speaker 9 (37:13):
That's all right anytime.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Yeah, you've got me out of a hole, so I
appreciate it already.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
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Speaker 7 (37:37):
Show.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Right now, we've got Nathan Burden from South and Sports
with us. Can know Nathan, how you get on?
Speaker 6 (37:45):
Yeah, very good mate yourself?
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Yeah, not bad actually considering the feels like it's getting
a little more bar me out there with the temmatures.
We just need that wind to go away, and you know,
we'd be actually in a really good spot barring the obvious.
Speaker 6 (37:57):
Yeah, there's been a chic of a lot happening, isn't
the I think we if we go back a week
you and I were speaking, it was knocking on twenty degrees,
the wind was the wind was sort of just starting
to get up. But I don't think we had any
idea that we were going to get hit with with
what we got with what we got hit by violent
within about ten minutes of that. It was it was
(38:20):
all happening, wasn't it? And obviously, you know, thoughts go
out to the people that are still coping, you know,
trying to catch up on sleep, trying to still get
the power on, trying to make things work and clean up.
I guess after what was a what was a pretty
unprecedented weather event to.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Right, Yeah, and their heart does go out to everybody,
and you know, they're a tough breed and quite often
they just get on with it, and I think people
need to realize just what they do go through at
times as well.
Speaker 6 (38:51):
Yeah, I just catching up with a relative of mine
who's closely linked to the farming industry, and one of
the clients that he was talking to had been sort
of hadn't been sleeping for twenty four to forty eight
hours because they were working. They were using one generator
to sort of basically run the whole farm, and and
you know, and I guess it's sort of the the
(39:12):
not you know, when you're in it, you're in it,
and then it's some of that afterwards, when when when
people really need to sort of look after themselves and
look after the people around them too. So yeah, it's
it's you know, well being is a big part of this,
isn't it there'll be that on effects. It doesn't stop
straight away. So yeah, good luck to everybody.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Yes, yes, absolutely. Now speaking of where the Tour of Southland,
obviously there's been destruction they've they've postponed.
Speaker 6 (39:42):
Yeah, so the yeah, I guess one of the knock
on effects of the whole of this whole thing speciment
Tour of Southland. The committee that organized the race had
had made the decision that you know that obviously the
priority in terms of the community was getting this the
cleanup and getting infrastructure back online, so things like traffic
(40:04):
management services in particular, and you know that's really where
those resources need to need it to be directed. So
they made the brave call, but the right call, to
postpone next week's race, and then they've sort of left
with this conundrum of its it's not just it's not
just the sort of the event. It's such a big
event you can't just sort of flick the switch on
(40:25):
and off with it. So then it was really about,
you know, can we find some dates to host this
thing and we still sort of such an iconic event
on the on the south and sporting calendar. I did
see someone mentioned that the weather doesn't come right until
after the tour's been So if we don't have a
tourd that mean we don't get a summer, So obviously
then there's all sorts of motivation to get this race
(40:47):
on the map. So you know, there's been a lot
of work's being done at the start of this week
to get all the eyes dotted and the tea's crossed,
and they've come up with a date January twenty four,
twenty six, so they'll end up having two SBS Bank
to our South in twenty six, the sixty nineteen, the
seventieth edition, So a bit of a silver lining to
(41:07):
come out of what was, you know, what's been a
big old week.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Yeah, and put it this way, if we know that
it is if the weather is bad because of the
Tour of South and then it's still rubbish up until
New Year, there's going to have to be a review
whether we have it. Ever again, let's face it, we
want good weather too, No I say that pug and cheek.
Speaker 6 (41:29):
It's right, We've got a yeah. I mean it's synonymous,
isn't it. For Although in saying that just the last
few tours the weather has been disgustingly good to be
fair and it's a little bit like a links golf course.
If the weather's too good, then the riders sort of
don't get that full south end experience. So yeah, so
while we would I think all of us are probably
a bit over the wind. We do probably need to
(41:51):
save up a little bit. And now I have it
in mid January when that bike races on.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
We don't want to make it too easy on them,
do we.
Speaker 6 (41:58):
No, definitely not.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
Netball. There's a the last teast.
Speaker 6 (42:05):
Match in the netball last night, Yeah, the Constellation Cup,
and you know, after four games for four hours of netball,
it all comes down to extra time. Last night, silver
Ferns did everything that they could. They they were down
by three and six goals right through that game and
they've managed to They needed to get the win to
draw it to war and then take us to this
(42:26):
sort of extra time sudden death situation. A bit of
a strange sort of a situation, I think, and to me,
it always sort of leans towards that team that finishes
the game stronger. They you know, you would hope that
they can then knock on and it looked like it
was almost going to be that way. I think early
doors that the Silver Ferns were going to push on,
(42:47):
but just such a wily and very strong Australian team
and very clever the way they finished that off. So
it was basically goal for goal through the through the
two seven minute halves and an extra time and then
Australia had about thirty seconds left and they were pretty
desperate to be the last team to use the ball,
so and it worked out for them. They managed to
(43:09):
they manage to get the ball through the hoop with
a couple of seconds to go, and just amazing. I
think with all that's been going on across the Silver
Ferns and net New Zealand in general, that it all
just comes down to one goal after four hours of netball.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
So sorry, after some of the earlier results, you wouldn't
thought they would have got close. So you've got to
take your head off to them for fighting back.
Speaker 6 (43:32):
Yeah, I think they've shown a lot of resilience. You
two seventeen goal grashings really, if we're going to be
honest over in Australia, and then they've come back to
New Zealand and won two Tests in a row. Just amazing.
What home court advantage. I think it's been it's quite
a few years now it's Australia have won a test
on this side of the ditch, So yeah, just I
(43:54):
guess it's sort of shows the where the international netballs
at at the moment. And of course we've had the
news in the meantime that Dame Nolin Todoua is going
to be back in charge of the Silver Ferns next year,
so you plenty plenty.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
Hapening in the plenty of comments to be thrown around
on that. I think we'll leave them there because that
could take an hour. Just quickly moving on to over
the weekend, there is an All Blex test in Chicago
the Irish.
Speaker 6 (44:23):
So you're starting at the Grand Slam Tour, isn't it so?
And in a game that you know, there's a there's
a there's a couple of abs there that have got
some not so great memories from taking on the Irish
in Chicago, so you know they'll be will be pretty
desperate to start this Grand Slam Tour off. On the
right note the Irish. By the same token, I don't
think the All Blacks hold quite the same demons that
(44:45):
they that they that they once did, and they'll be
they'd love to kill any thought of a Grand Slam
tour off in the in the first week.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
So yeah, and you've got your comments after the quarterfinal
two so it's a little bit of motivation there.
Speaker 6 (44:58):
That that left a bit of spice and that relationship
for a long time.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Did Hey mate, Look, I'm sorry to have to call
us short, but we are out of time. Thank you
very much for coming back on the show. And yeah,
we'll probably catch up with you. I don't know when
I'll be back on next but anyway, it's been awesome
keeping touch.
Speaker 6 (45:17):
No worries. Thanks mate.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
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Good afternoon, everybody, and how can we Radio Land. This
is Chris Wilson stepping in for Andy Mirror on the
Muster for today, Thursday, the thirtieth of October. On the
show Today, we've got a wee bit coming up. We
do have Jason Herritt con Federated Farmers, just what's happening
around the district, obviously in regards to clean up and
a few other things going on. Geordie Eid farmer from
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Riverton with his mixed farming operations, see touch on how
he's got on with that event last week and how
his spring's tracking. Tom Fraser from Beef and Lamb just
around pasture management, Clayton Peters from Peter's Genetics, The Harriet
Farm covering of just chat around things that are happening
in the area, and Nathan Burdon with the sports rap
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out loud. Thanks very much to Class Harvest Center for
allowing me the time to come in and do this
program again once again for Andy today our music is
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little bit upbeat. Things are looking a bit brighter out
there today, with the weather a little bit less wind,
a bit warmer, So yeah, we'll just get on with
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Today Thursday, the thirtieth of October, high fifteen a live six,
partly cloudy, the odd share from the afternoon, more frequent
and possibly heavier this evening. West least strong this afternoon.
Tomorrow Friday, the thirty first of October, the last day
of the working week and the last day of the
month of October, high have twelve a Las three rain
before dawn, then fine. Westerly is becoming strong for a
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time in the afternoon. So Saturday, the first of November
a high of sixteen a lower five fine where the
westerly is easing in the evening. Sunday, the second of November,
my father's birthday, Heavy birthday, Lucky Robert, high of nineteenlave
eight party cloudy. Northwesterly is developing Monday, the third of November,
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a high of twenty one, low of eleven and a
few showers some norwesterlies.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Anyway, let's get on with the show YEPGG.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Rights and stock sales report, all right, and with the
latest news from the livestock sales and gore Andrew Martin
made hair gun.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Yeah, get our cross sales things good?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Thanks? Yeah, how did it go today?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
We probably had a bit of a falling off of numbers,
which is not totally surprising. I would imagine there's a
lot of farmers dealing to damage and but some pieces
on their farms and getting getting surplus off stock off
the farm's probably not a priority. But for what was
there continuing to sell very well. With lambs, particularly the
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old season's lambs on board, I would start being mindful
of getting them off with teeth coming through. There was
quite quite a reduction and price once they do pop through.
But I'll just buzz through the pricings here for you today.
The best of the lambs today. There the very heavy
end with two eighty through the three hundred and thirty dollars,
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second draftings at two forty through to two seventy, and
the lighter end on the primary our lambs were sort
of one seventy through about two hundred dollars local trade
rams best of those at eighty second puts at fifty
to sixty, lighter edge at thirty to forty dollars, and
the mutton mutton is continuing to sell extremely well. The
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heavy end of the mutton is second cut of mutton
one sixty two to one ninety and the lighter end
of the pine mutton around the fifty with the very
bottom edge the very very bottom sort of a seventy
(04:31):
to ninety dollars mark. Yeah, pretty much wraps it up.
As I say, smaller to moderate yarning. But we'd expect
forward that those numbers start to pick up as much.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
It just a better winter.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Fingers crossed.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, let's all hope. So thanks very much, Andrew pgg right.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
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Speaker 7 (04:56):
Oh well, Missy.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
With us on the show this afternoon. We've got Jason
Herrick can Jason from the Federated Farmers. He is can Jason,
how do you get nine.
Speaker 8 (05:12):
Yeah, and I put my foot on the ground now
and then the starting to run, which is good.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Hell, I mean you were an aussy when I spoke
to you a week ago. You would have come back
to a couple of different sites, I'd imagine.
Speaker 8 (05:24):
Yeah, so the weather event that hit last Thursday, I
was an ausy at the time, and my phone started
going pretty hot, and yeah, it was very surreal some
of the conversations that were coming through. And yeah, so
it's been a bit of a different story coming home
and seeing all the damage and talking to people firsthand.
(05:46):
Not only that, just a little bit of divis to
our property.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
As well, you know.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
So, yeah, we'll get through it, just like anybody else.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It would have been like from what you were hearing
in Aussie and then what you got home to see,
could you imagine imagine the scale of it or was
it I mean it's hard to know. Was it worse
or better than you thought? Or what was your gut
feeling when you when you were away and then as
opposed to when you got home. I guess.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (06:11):
So when I got home and traveling down the main road,
it appeared it wasn't as bad as what I thought.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
It was going to be, and then I went off
the beaten track. I just got in other.
Speaker 8 (06:20):
Parts of the Southland and yep, nope, it's definitely quite
a bit of destruction out there, and you know, you've
got to get your heart sort of think the weave
it when you see it first for the first time.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
It's all very well hearing it, but.
Speaker 8 (06:32):
It's definitely a lot different when you see it.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, it's kind of like apocalyptic scenes in a way.
It's very We're not used to that sort of thing,
are we. We might have a bit of flooding and
a wee bit of drive a wind that's done that,
and the short space is probably only an hour or so.
It was just phenomenal, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
It was.
Speaker 8 (06:51):
And to only get four to fifteen to twenty minutes
warning to most people wouldn't have got the warning and
unless you were looking at the site or or listening
to the radio, you know, and it just smashed people
and they would just take them by surprise really, and
you know, some pretty horrid stories out there at the moment.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
So I'm saying a bit of resilience and pragmatism from farmers.
I'm guessing you'll be saying much the same totally.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
And that's something that Southern farmers or New Zealand farmers
in general have in space, right, and they're pretty upbeat
and first jump jump to attention and jump in and
help out their neighbors and help out the other locals.
And it's one thing the South ender is a very
good act helping one another. And my biggest concern for
(07:37):
a lot of those community oriented people out there is
looking after themselves first, because if you don't look after yourself,
you end up burning yourself out and you won't be
able to help other people. So you know, my message
to everybody out there is to take heat and look
after yourself first and then and then put yourself out there.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You completely little to anyone else if you're a haggard mess.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
Yeah, exactly, you know. And we're coming into the time
now where clean up is going to start happening, and
you don't want to be fatigued when dealing with down
trees and so on.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
That's right. But I'm looking at what I'm seeing, and
Gore got off relatively lightly, particularly northern South, and really
was quite lucky. But I'm saying a lot of it
is just dangerous. Really if you're going in there with
a chain where you really need to dig alongside. You
have to prevent any unforeseen issues or making sure that
things are swiped out of trees that are still hanging
(08:31):
there too. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (08:32):
And in my previous life before farming, I was an
arborist and forestry worker, and I've seen some pretty horrendous
outarms from fallen trees. And got to remember that a
fallen tree, just because it's laying on the ground, it
doesn't mean it doesn't have much pressure on, especially with
the root system still attached. So you know, taking care
and being careful around that, especially with operating chainsaws and
heavy machinery. Just be very careful. You know, we're very
(08:56):
lucky to get away with no fatalities when they're storm
hit YEP, with trees coming down, So we wouldn't want
to see any fatalities coming out of the cleanup.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
No, No, We've been lucky to have done so far.
Speaker 8 (09:08):
Yeah, exactly. And I did hear one up in the
Nelson Bay area right during the cleanup. You know, they
had no fatalities during the event, but a fatality from
a farmer happened in the cleanup and under those seconds.
Stuff very careful of it.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah. Yeah, and the sharing nature too. With generators, they
weren't enough to go around, but people managed to cobble
together to make sure animals have water, could do some milking,
barbecues were essential. So I think all in all a
little underprepared as a province, but we've come through it
really well.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Oh totally.
Speaker 8 (09:45):
Yeah, we're very, very underprepared for emergency management point of view,
and some things could be done a lot differently. There
just goes to show how vulnerable we are to the
network with all the calm colms going down as well,
and people weren't able to notify that they had no
power or they had issues and so on. So you know,
we've just got to take a learning from this and
(10:07):
set things in motion and set things up for the future,
because I mean there's no doubt this sort of stuff
will happen again.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah too, right, and I'm assuming well, reading the updates
that I see more than once a day, there's still
power out in places. We're still under a state of emergency.
Do you know how much longer that it's going to
be for or.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
Yeah, So currently we still have just over four thousand
homes without power and around South and Power needs to
report it to us that this this next stage is
going to take some time to fix because they're all
individual cases where power lines are going through private property.
So now it's just getting you know, you're not they're
not fixing the main trunks and connecting hundreds of homes
up at times at a time. They're doing one at
(10:44):
a time now, So you know, it's going to take
a little bit of time because there's still a lot
of snap power lines and power poles on the ground
and those things take time to replace. So we're just
going to work alongside them and make sure we're supporting
those communities in need and that everybody's well fears taken
care of and if anybody has anything out there that
they need help with, don't be afraid to reach out completely.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
And the people that are working on doing God's work
really and they can only get to one place at
a time, unfortunately, but that's just the way it is, isn't.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
It It is? And we've got a lot of a
lot of unsung.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Heroes out there.
Speaker 8 (11:19):
I don't want to acknowledge all of those unsung heroes,
and in the support services that are there, and and
electricians and plumbers and anybody that was out there that
could do it was doing it. And you know, I
do want to do a wee bit of a shout
out actually to one of my own executive team members,
Old cats Ralberh. He's a he's a hero out there
with a bit of a cape on in Criyke. He
(11:40):
was out there involved in the community helping shifting generators around,
getting generators and stuff hooked up, as well as talking
and meeting with emergency managements south And while I was
over an Aussie and you know, he's he's definitely a
man who deserves a bit of an acolade.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You've got to love that, yeah, him, And I know
of a number of others too, So those guys, I
absolutely agree with you. There's there's a lot of people
owe them a huge dear of gratitude.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
Absolutely, and I'm going to try and get around as
many of them as I can to personally thank them
for all the efforts and hard work that they put
in and in our local MP is a big shit
out that both Pinnion and Joseph had done a fantastic
job over this time as well, getting around the community
and meeting up with some of those unsung here.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Absolutely all right, Jace, we might wrap it up with you.
I'll leave you to it and get back to your
day job. So thank you for your time and we'll
catch up later.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
You're welcome, thanks question, cheers mate.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
And we'll leave it again.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
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Speaker 2 (12:54):
Well, the sneaks on the show. We've got Jordy Eid
a Riverton farmer, dairy farmer and sheep beef farmer. And
the music today is an excess. JEORDI better kiss the dirt.
I'm not sure if anyone wanted to kiss it. There
was plenty flying a week or so ago. How are
you guys fearing through.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
All that, Chris, Yeah, no, I think it's just where
it would kiss. Anything with the life will end of
the past week. But power back on a dairy farm
used to that at two o'clock and the home farm
at eight o'clock. So no, it's there's been a mount
of Marve's turnaround. But yeah, it wasn't a smooth week.
And generators. We're onto our third generator. The dairy farm.
(13:31):
But yeah, well we've got there.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
There is a long stretch through the well. That's six
days essentially, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah, well, yeah, up about one hundred and fifty one hours,
which actually didn't sound that long. But yeah, no, I
mean we were certainly getting into camping mode. We're able
to resurrect our home farm. We managed to get the
generator onto the hot water, so we're able to use
a sync there shower for all the neighbors and so no,
that that worked really well, and I mean at the
end of the day, you know, it was experience and
(14:00):
we're going to look back on probably a bit like
COVID lockdown.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Well let's hope it's just the one off, not like
the lockdowns.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Yeah, I went off I when purchased a generator for
the dairy farm last Tuesday, but it doesn't arrive until
ninth of November, so that didn't really do much use.
But you know, we're going to have to definitely have
something going forward to future proof their businesses.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
See sorry you didn't, did you have to tip any
milk out or you could.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
We had a local Carfrera that rears a couple of
thousand cars, so he was alwa, come and take it.
So there was about three days there year. Yesterday we supplied,
so we're back on the board. So yes, our fingers
crossed about that first lot of milk going back on
the VAT. But I'm seeing some good stories then. I mean,
I hope that Frontira come to the party afterwards and say, yet,
good experience. We won't grade you on this milk, so
(14:47):
we'll wait and see.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
You on that.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Yeah, surely, surely there's some leniency there in some direction,
whether it's I might be you know I've had in
the past with the merits but no financials. You'd take that,
wouldn't you.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yeah, you would take that. I mean, at the end
of the day, that's probably we weren't dumping. It was
going to a good cause. But you know, you're just
scared to get those two merits and if you get that,
the help count really high, and you know you've got
that on your paper the rest of the year. Really
and I mean, you know, we we ran and we
got milking right, but then we ran into issues are
running out of water, so we had the generator for
the boar.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
So you know what I thinks it was.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
One step forward too back well.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Image.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Yeah, hopefully it's two forward every day from now.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Because it's still they're still peaking. You probably just a
be abule to slide down the other side. But I
guess if you can hold it and it's a little
warmer today, maybe a bit of grass growth.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
The cow's milking this morning there was only two hundred
meters less than what they are milking, you know, teen
days ago. You know, we're hopefully back there. And the
grass covers of pretty taken a hiding too, but that
probably the situational head probably isn't has helped that because
we were on once a day for three days, so
you know, we could slow them down of it, so
(16:02):
you know, there might be some good mating rates out
there and come out of this, you know, puzzes off
on that side.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
And what about the sheet and beef side of the property.
How did the I mean, I guess your biggest concern
is fences and tree lines, you know, taking fences out
and stop getting out everything.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Yeah, everything was okay there. I mean that sort of
looked back on it, and it's quite a bit easier
when you don't have to know cows. But you know,
I was starting to run down other things of the
electric fence being off. About day four, Jack, there have
to a generate her and that the SEMs starting to
get a bit of management because calves have going where
they liked. And but you know, looking back, I think
we're going to we're all set up now, you know,
(16:42):
like we found a little generator. We can actually get
our central heading on in the house by about day five.
Just all those little things that how they made you know,
about day four we had a shower and like you know,
little things that like they felt like.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Eaven on Earth at the creature comforts.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally yeah. But I mean, you know,
the weather forecast looks good after today is a wee
bit of a bliff and rain coming through today. But
we've just had the helicopter put some your ear on
today and so hopefully, you know, when that heat comes
next week, we're ready to go. And I mean probably
on the outside, you know, we yes ours. I mean,
the dairy farm's got about thirty forty odd trees down,
(17:20):
but you know it's not that they're all just down
on paddocks and not across lanes or it's contracted job
to come and fix it. But it's not immediate, and
that's probably something I need to get out there, is
that we need to probably be careful of that. Cockies
don't go and do this stuff themselves because those big
trees have stumps on them. They widow makers, I think
(17:41):
after this sort of tones down, but I think we
need to have a management team of figures and people experience,
people going around clearing these for people.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I think. So I was talking to him mate about
that yesterday and just even you know, I know there's
a massive, massive run on those power claws for front
of laders and tally handlers, but I don't know. I
think if it's a big, big tree, just maybe you
get a contract around its roots were already out. Just
lifted off and put it over the fence and be
done with it. It saves catching your fence because they're
(18:11):
more with fences around. You've got to have someone handy
to be behind that stump to clear the fence out
of the way. There's just lots of little things.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Oh yes, only and that stump can be as heavy
as the tree itself and they're not taking the pressure
off it and trying to chain saw it. It's yeah,
I had to make to Lincoln has there got killed
in the winds in Canbury and I think there were
twenty two yep. So you know, I know sort of
personally that you know how it can affect. And I mean,
(18:40):
he just didn't turn up for lunch. And we definitely
don't want that.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
You know.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
We we survived all this about anybody get ninjaed, and we,
for goodness sake, don't want to have it happen.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
That would be the tragedy of it, really, like the
big tragedy, wouldn't it. People survive in the event, and
then it's the cleanup that gets them.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Yeah, And I know, you know, like I'm just trying
to clean a bit there of my own. But I mean,
you know, you got trees that are still hung up
on trees and you know what, you know, that's the
things You clear it and then all of a sudden
turn around and there's a tree coming down behind you.
So at least at the same time it's still windy too. Yeah,
do you say I'm not touching eything today? I'm doing
a bit of stock working about the place. We'll just
(19:16):
hold up their calves from the dairy farm to get
them off the platform because and that was a funny.
Another thing, as they're starting to go where they liked
when they realized that about day three that there was
no lectric fences on. So yeah, so I've just the
platform to my home block and you know, just have
sort that from the biggies and littles because they had
been weaned, so just to finish them off before they
go to a grazing block.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Yeah, and to be fair, it is reasonably common now
with young stock that a lot of people do have
a couple of battery units with a solar panel too,
isn't it. So a lot of that stuff could be managed,
particularly for young stock.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
So I got a generator hooked onto it down there,
and I worked a tree. Really but you've got the
water pump going, the water pump for the house, and
the same the electric fence tune and the same shep
so kill two birds of one stone, I.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Said yesterday, who's doing exactly the same thing. Well he's
going to get back up for it anyway.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
So yeah, yeah, look, but no on the on the
lamb side, you know, that still looks pretty positive. You know,
I read a bit of Keith Woodford's articles probably say
that it's going to come off of it, but I'd
hope it doesn't because I mean, let's keeping probably the
shed and bee farmer pretty cheery. No, perhaps we might
get a ten dollars or near enough to it, and
they're winning drafts that would you know, that's a good
light at the end of the tunnel for us.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yeah, it's well deserved. It's been years of how the campaign.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Oh yeah, yeah, and you're right about that, you know,
just to be sort of three three dollars a more
than last year's We'll take that absolutely.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yes. I guess everyone always worries about what's around the
next corner, where I think, just take it for what
it is.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
A huge shout out to the emergency management team in town.
They were great the whole time. I had problems with
generators and ever thinking. They were absolutely awesome. The only
difficulty I had was getting their actual phone number the
day the day after it happened. I had obviously because
we're going to have to run and cross those bridges later,
but the communications was impossible that I could only get
anything through text messages. So yeah, I Textean Carson to
(21:12):
get that phone number. Once I got the phone number,
we were away and they're absolutely brilliant. And I mean
at the end of the day, you know, pow needs
have done their job and got round and I mean
a massive task. You I'll take the head off to
them to.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
You right, hey, look mate, I'm sorry to cut you short,
but everyone has done a sterling job and amazing work.
So we'll leave it there and we'll catch up again
later on and all the best and hopefully things pick.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Up good as gold sun come out will be way mate. Cheers, jeez,
Thanks Chris.
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 (21:59):
Wells. Next, we've got Tom Fraser from Beef and Lamb,
New Zealand to talk about pasture management and the whole
song Baby Don't Cry. Tom could be quite relevant to
what happened in the last week or so with the
weather and well soils, trees, all sorts of things. How
(22:20):
are you getting nine anyway?
Speaker 7 (22:22):
I'm getting on fine. So I'm based in Canterbury. I'm
actually just signed contract to beefon Lamb. I used to
work for at Research in forests and later on in
my life, I became involved very much and flamp stuns science.
So yep, that takes all the different components. And yeah,
while I'm based in Bandabury, I was a south and
(22:43):
the born and bred from the Tiana Basin.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yeah, well that takes a lot of goals down here obviously.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
Yeah, so that was back in the nineteen seventies. So
that obviously tells people that are listening that I've been
around for a while and been through all sorts of
floods and earthquakes and excuse me on fires and winds,
et cetera. So I've had a wee bit of unfortunately,
(23:10):
had a wee bit of experience and the aftermath of
these events.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
You know what they're all about, though, And obviously you
look at it with milk payouts and tough times. It's
not as fair as radio. There is light at the
end of the tunnel, always, isn't there.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
Yes, Well, luckily at the moment, just the way farm
prices are product prices are looking, is that things are good.
I mean we could before we were a coup of
three years ago where milk payer wasn't great, Lamb was
pretty bloody ordinary, and Wall was a disaster.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
But at least.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Looking forward for the next twelve months, hopefully a bit longer.
Product prices are looking pretty good.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yes, and it's a little bit too of you know,
eye on the future, but also taking it for what
it's worth right now and eccex and knowing that it's
good and enjoying it because I think sometimes you're that
busy thinking forward, aren't further ahead, that you lose sight
of what's actually happening right now.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
Yes, and it's very difficult times.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
It's only a week since the big event.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
Both in south and Incluther and also in North Canterbury.
The farms that they are suffering, not that's the same
widespread extent, but individual farms are protectively with their center
for the derrogators.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Which is a major for ken. If they don't get
the water on that that's really causes a big effect,
doesn't it. Yes.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
And also unfortunately at the moment we're looking potentially going
into quite an early drought right and some southern farmers
will be struggling to understand that at the moment. There
can saw conditions at present. But our rainfall, we had
a good rainfall early in winter and we've had birth
faith virtually no rainfall since so I saw moisture levels
(25:03):
alow and people have been irrigating now for the last
three weeks, I guess.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Yeah, right, so it's just business as usual really already. Yeah, yeah, which,
well three weeks ago you start of October. It seems
quite early, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Yes, it is, it is.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
It's probably at least three weeks early for most irrigators.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
And so obviously there's a challenge with the irrigators that
have been damaged. There's only so many of those technicians
to repair them that can go around. What's a general
scenario like some of them could be quite a number
of months, is that right?
Speaker 6 (25:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (25:38):
There's two parts of One is the technical staff and
there recently sit on the ground obviously, don't just sit
around waiting for an event like this, No. And the
second thing is just a sheer volume of parts. Yes,
it's not like just putting up and boulder, and it's
bringing in parts from overseas. Is only a limited amount
(25:59):
of spare parts that the companies keeping in the country,
So everybody be plaid out trying to bring in inventry.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
In three months a pack or is it just you can't.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
The wee but like the South and farmers waiting to
see when they can get their trees cleaned up. Yes,
we'd love it to happen next week, but it could
be three months, and in some cases in South.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
And it could be six months.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
But I think the thing that we need to.
Speaker 7 (26:29):
Concentrate on as farmers is concentrating on the things that
we can have an effect on and not on those
that are out of our control. So it's easy for
me to sit back here and say, you know, things
have not been good, but they will get better. Now
there's a lot of farmers sitting around saying, yes, all
(26:49):
right for him to say that, but they will get better.
And if you can actually put your energies into the
events and the management systems on your farm that you
can have an effect on, yep, that is important. And
also to concentrate on the things that you're good at.
(27:11):
And farmers are good at farming, Yes, they're not necessarily
good at driving a digger, yep. So leave that cleaning
up the trees to the diggers. And you know, it
may take three months, it may take six months, and
it may not be nice to look at, but that's it,
provided you've got your boundary venss and a bit of
(27:31):
control of your stock and you've got good stock water.
It's an eyesore looking at those trees are lying down
on the ground, and it can be inconvenient, but is
it really having a major effect on your production? On
farm production?
Speaker 2 (27:47):
And that's right, you're right, it's an inconvenience. Doesn't look
very good, but that's it, yeah, once it's all said
and done. But also, I guess so it's a matter
for farmers is so much where they start. And the
first thing you've got to do is sometimes just start,
doesn't matter where. Just you know, it's like putting the
fence up where you how wide are we going to
(28:08):
make the track? Where we're going to put the gates
next year, Let's just put the first trainer post in
and we'll go from there.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Yes, And once you've started, then you can just build
on that, and it takes time and just be patient.
I guess that's the main thing.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
But I know that.
Speaker 7 (28:24):
Most of southern has had a pretty tough winter and
a bloody awful spring, and pasture covers are not good,
so even prior to the when things weren't looking great
for this year's early But I do know the southern
climbate pretty well, and I do know the past to
growth rates in South and unfortunately or fortunately, perhaps I
(28:50):
can assure you that when pasture covers are low in
South and at the end of October of which we're
at now, you're going to have a very good legume
growing season in decent Guin in February. Okay, So that
is a positive look forward to because I know pasture
covers are low, but as the temperatures increase, and they
(29:13):
will increase, yes, then the leaguames will because they haven't
got that competition from the grasses. It's not the big
pasture covers there. The leagums will respond very very well.
And for your young stop growing, particularly post weining, then
you are going to have good leaguings in your pastures
(29:33):
and you're going to get good animal performance.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Well, I'm sure that gives plenty of good stuff that
people look forward to. Look Tom, Honestly, I could sit
and talk to you all day, but we're pretty well
runn out of time. I'm sorry, so we'll have to
wrap that there. Thank you very much for your time,
and where we'll see you another time and catch up.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
Okay, that's great, Thanks very much.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Yes, 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 (30:16):
Okay, you're back on the Muster now with Chris Wilson
and with me this afternoon. I've got Lynn Barry and
a friend of hers from Germany, and apologies to Peter's Genetics.
We were unable to get hold of those guys today,
so we'll try and catch up with him later in
the week. How you getting on.
Speaker 9 (30:33):
Oh, I just peachy at this short notice.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yeah, very very sorry about that. I'm not sure if
it was a mix up in phone numbers or just
people busy and not having their phone near them. So
you've managed to see us right, probably for a change.
Speaker 9 (30:47):
Probably with the way things are down here, everybody's probably
pretty busy, so I'm pretty flexible most of the time.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, And I guess while they're on cleanup mode,
the farming life story has to go on. So they
just getting done what they've got to get done, aren't they. Yes,
they are.
Speaker 9 (31:06):
We've just driven down from home account to day and
I must say was a little bit surprised coming through
Westertago I thought there'd be a lot more carnage, but
apparently like there's some areas that have been really smashed.
So yeah, it's good.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
You've got to get lucky sometimes, haven't you.
Speaker 9 (31:22):
Oh'd been nice if I've got lucky sometimes.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
But you know, so what are we going to talk
about today with you?
Speaker 9 (31:29):
I thought we would talk about these lovely little yellow
leagued hornets that have been found up in Auckland just
this week, a new pest that's been somehow got into
New Zealand. They got into France about two thousand and
eight in timber from China, so they survived the trip
(31:50):
all across the sea or however they got were being transported,
and they've actually caused a lot of trouble around in
Spain and France. They pray on honeybees, that's I know,
and they reduce the population of the honey bees over
in front by about thirty percent. And the follow on
(32:11):
issues with that is that less honey bees, less pollination,
poor pollination, and some of their crops over there have
suffered quite a bit because they just don't get the
yields because the bees aren't there to pollinate them.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Always, something isn't there I know.
Speaker 9 (32:27):
So what these little fellows do is in the wintertime,
the queen over winters and in the winter spring she
wakes up, goes and finds some carbohydrate rich food because
she needs lots of energy to start building this little
we call it a nest.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
And the.
Speaker 9 (32:45):
First nest that she builds is usually on a man
made structure and it's like a little ball. So she's
busily constructing that and she's laying eggs in there, and
then she gets when they hatch, she gets some workers
to help her. And what they do is they go
out and they find honeybee nests and they what they
call hooking. They sit out in front of the nest
(33:07):
where the bees come in, and they grab the worker
bees and take them away to their nest, and they
can kill up to twenty five to fifty worker bees
a day to go and take the food back to
the nest and for the new pupa that are hatching,
so that stops the hives like goes into shocks sort
(33:28):
of and that they don't want to go out in
the forage, and then that reduces the amount of honey
and the amount of larvae and some it just doesn't
usually kill the hive, but it severely reduces the population.
So that happens all over summertime and then in the
autumn they they have about up to three hundred and
(33:52):
fifty of these they call them guyans, which are future
queens hatch yep and plus about three times the number
of males as well, and they these females get fertilized
and then they will go away in the autumn and
then they will over winter. But we're a bit lucky
because not all of them, the vast majority of them
(34:15):
actually die off well, and then they start all over again.
But they do have a secondary hive. If the hive
gets too big and then they start this reproduction stage,
they'll go and build a little hive in the vegetation somewhere.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
See anything to survive, like any peace, really, isn't it?
Speaker 9 (34:31):
Oh yeah, it all reves around food and reproduction.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Really, what do we do to prevent or kill?
Speaker 9 (34:38):
Like?
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Can we take out bee populations by trying to deal
to these?
Speaker 9 (34:41):
We've got to keep them out for a start, because
there's only been three females found this week. They found
a male I think it was last year up in Auckland.
But if they get established, there's really no way to
eradicate them.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Once they've established found three. There may be more, it
could be more.
Speaker 9 (34:58):
They've got mpi's working really hard. It's like the fruit
fly outbreaks that they find up in Auckland. They'll be
pretty they'll be pretty good at cleaning them up when
they find them. But if you find a nist round
looking nest dangling from your eaves or whatever, and the
insect in them looks like an oversized wasp, yep, then
(35:20):
contact MPI straight away, yep, straight away, and they can
come and take the hives away, and then they can
put up pheromone traps and stuff to find them as well.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Oh, that sounds like it could be a disaster. Let's
hope they keep a lid on that.
Speaker 9 (35:33):
Yeah, well, with our honeybeans have big enough problems as
it is with wasps and with borrowo might as well.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
So that's right. And so as we sort of mentioned
earlier touched on you've got a friend from overseas well.
Speaker 8 (35:47):
Yeah, you know I do.
Speaker 9 (35:49):
I do work away and I have travelers come and
stay with me. So for her sins decided that I
look like a good place to come and stay. To
start her experienced New Zealand. So she's been and she's
just great. She's fitted in really well and she's really
easy care.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
She does what she's told for now most times.
Speaker 9 (36:11):
Yes, so we've given her a good look around, so
she might like to comment on what she's her first thoughts.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
In New Zealander. Welcome. Sorry I can't get your name properly.
Speaker 7 (36:22):
It is silly.
Speaker 10 (36:23):
It's a complicated name.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
That's not too bad. Once I keep the heat around it,
it'll be fine. How have you found it?
Speaker 10 (36:31):
Yeah, it has been an amazing time. So I learned
a lot about gardening, especially at Lynd's place, a lot
about farming, animal care, and just met a lot of
people that are just great. Everyone is here, Everyone here
so friendly.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Plenty of farmers around. Are you from a farming area
in Germany?
Speaker 10 (36:51):
Like a little village but not with a lot of
farms anymore. Yes, it's great, a whole different world here.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Look, I'd love to talk to you more about it,
but we are running out of time. But thank you
for coming on the show, and the pair of you
at late notice, and good to meet Yazilia and I
hope you enjoy your travels around New Zealand and doing
whatever you're doing. Thank you and thanks Lynn.
Speaker 9 (37:13):
That's all right anytime.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Yeah, you've got me out of a hole, so I
appreciate it already.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Cheers the Muster proudly brought to you by Peter's Genetics.
Every drip means quite a bit when it's from Peter's Genetics.
Speaker 7 (37:37):
Show.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Right now, we've got Nathan Burden from South and Sports
with us. Can know Nathan, how you get on?
Speaker 6 (37:45):
Yeah, very good mate yourself?
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Yeah, not bad actually considering the feels like it's getting
a little more bar me out there with the temmatures.
We just need that wind to go away, and you know,
we'd be actually in a really good spot barring the obvious.
Speaker 6 (37:57):
Yeah, there's been a chic of a lot happening, isn't
the I think we if we go back a week
you and I were speaking, it was knocking on twenty degrees,
the wind was the wind was sort of just starting
to get up. But I don't think we had any
idea that we were going to get hit with with
what we got with what we got hit by violent
within about ten minutes of that. It was it was
(38:20):
all happening, wasn't it? And obviously, you know, thoughts go
out to the people that are still coping, you know,
trying to catch up on sleep, trying to still get
the power on, trying to make things work and clean up.
I guess after what was a what was a pretty
unprecedented weather event to.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Right, Yeah, and their heart does go out to everybody,
and you know, they're a tough breed and quite often
they just get on with it, and I think people
need to realize just what they do go through at
times as well.
Speaker 6 (38:51):
Yeah, I just catching up with a relative of mine
who's closely linked to the farming industry, and one of
the clients that he was talking to had been sort
of hadn't been sleeping for twenty four to forty eight
hours because they were working. They were using one generator
to sort of basically run the whole farm, and and
you know, and I guess it's sort of the the
(39:12):
not you know, when you're in it, you're in it,
and then it's some of that afterwards, when when when
people really need to sort of look after themselves and
look after the people around them too. So yeah, it's
it's you know, well being is a big part of this,
isn't it there'll be that on effects. It doesn't stop
straight away. So yeah, good luck to everybody.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Yes, yes, absolutely. Now speaking of where the Tour of Southland,
obviously there's been destruction they've they've postponed.
Speaker 6 (39:42):
Yeah, so the yeah, I guess one of the knock
on effects of the whole of this whole thing speciment
Tour of Southland. The committee that organized the race had
had made the decision that you know that obviously the
priority in terms of the community was getting this the
cleanup and getting infrastructure back online, so things like traffic
(40:04):
management services in particular, and you know that's really where
those resources need to need it to be directed. So
they made the brave call, but the right call, to
postpone next week's race, and then they've sort of left
with this conundrum of its it's not just it's not
just the sort of the event. It's such a big
event you can't just sort of flick the switch on
(40:25):
and off with it. So then it was really about,
you know, can we find some dates to host this
thing and we still sort of such an iconic event
on the on the south and sporting calendar. I did
see someone mentioned that the weather doesn't come right until
after the tour's been So if we don't have a
tourd that mean we don't get a summer, So obviously
then there's all sorts of motivation to get this race
(40:47):
on the map. So you know, there's been a lot
of work's being done at the start of this week
to get all the eyes dotted and the tea's crossed,
and they've come up with a date January twenty four,
twenty six, so they'll end up having two SBS Bank
to our South in twenty six, the sixty nineteen, the
seventieth edition, So a bit of a silver lining to
(41:07):
come out of what was, you know, what's been a
big old week.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Yeah, and put it this way, if we know that
it is if the weather is bad because of the
Tour of South and then it's still rubbish up until
New Year, there's going to have to be a review
whether we have it. Ever again, let's face it, we
want good weather too, No I say that pug and cheek.
Speaker 6 (41:29):
It's right, We've got a yeah. I mean it's synonymous,
isn't it. For Although in saying that just the last
few tours the weather has been disgustingly good to be
fair and it's a little bit like a links golf course.
If the weather's too good, then the riders sort of
don't get that full south end experience. So yeah, so
while we would I think all of us are probably
a bit over the wind. We do probably need to
(41:51):
save up a little bit. And now I have it
in mid January when that bike races on.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
We don't want to make it too easy on them,
do we.
Speaker 6 (41:58):
No, definitely not.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
Netball. There's a the last teast.
Speaker 6 (42:05):
Match in the netball last night, Yeah, the Constellation Cup,
and you know, after four games for four hours of netball,
it all comes down to extra time. Last night, silver
Ferns did everything that they could. They they were down
by three and six goals right through that game and
they've managed to They needed to get the win to
draw it to war and then take us to this
(42:26):
sort of extra time sudden death situation. A bit of
a strange sort of a situation, I think, and to me,
it always sort of leans towards that team that finishes
the game stronger. They you know, you would hope that
they can then knock on and it looked like it
was almost going to be that way. I think early
doors that the Silver Ferns were going to push on,
(42:47):
but just such a wily and very strong Australian team
and very clever the way they finished that off. So
it was basically goal for goal through the through the
two seven minute halves and an extra time and then
Australia had about thirty seconds left and they were pretty
desperate to be the last team to use the ball,
so and it worked out for them. They managed to
(43:09):
they manage to get the ball through the hoop with
a couple of seconds to go, and just amazing. I
think with all that's been going on across the Silver
Ferns and net New Zealand in general, that it all
just comes down to one goal after four hours of netball.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
So sorry, after some of the earlier results, you wouldn't
thought they would have got close. So you've got to
take your head off to them for fighting back.
Speaker 6 (43:32):
Yeah, I think they've shown a lot of resilience. You
two seventeen goal grashings really, if we're going to be
honest over in Australia, and then they've come back to
New Zealand and won two Tests in a row. Just amazing.
What home court advantage. I think it's been it's quite
a few years now it's Australia have won a test
on this side of the ditch, So yeah, just I
(43:54):
guess it's sort of shows the where the international netballs
at at the moment. And of course we've had the
news in the meantime that Dame Nolin Todoua is going
to be back in charge of the Silver Ferns next year,
so you plenty plenty.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
Hapening in the plenty of comments to be thrown around
on that. I think we'll leave them there because that
could take an hour. Just quickly moving on to over
the weekend, there is an All Blex test in Chicago
the Irish.
Speaker 6 (44:23):
So you're starting at the Grand Slam Tour, isn't it so?
And in a game that you know, there's a there's
a there's a couple of abs there that have got
some not so great memories from taking on the Irish
in Chicago, so you know they'll be will be pretty
desperate to start this Grand Slam Tour off. On the
right note the Irish. By the same token, I don't
think the All Blacks hold quite the same demons that
(44:45):
they that they that they once did, and they'll be
they'd love to kill any thought of a Grand Slam
tour off in the in the first week.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
So yeah, and you've got your comments after the quarterfinal
two so it's a little bit of motivation there.
Speaker 6 (44:58):
That that left a bit of spice and that relationship
for a long time.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Did Hey mate, Look, I'm sorry to have to call
us short, but we are out of time. Thank you
very much for coming back on the show. And yeah,
we'll probably catch up with you. I don't know when
I'll be back on next but anyway, it's been awesome
keeping touch.
Speaker 6 (45:17):
No worries. Thanks mate.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
Cheers Nathan laugh.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
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can be a laughing matter.
Speaker 3 (45:25):
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Speaker 2 (45:30):
Won the Nick decorating contest. It was a tie. I
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Speaker 6 (45:38):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (45:39):
That's it for me on the Muster today, stepping in
for Andy Muir once again. Thank you very much to
Class Harvesinda for allowing me this time to come and
do it. Also, I've not been mentioning them, but Peter's Genetics.
Thank you show sponsor. Appreciate everything. That you guys do,
and everybody have a happy Tuesday afternoon, and we'll see
you on Friday.
Speaker 7 (46:00):
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