September 22, 2025 • 8 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Grab McMaster joins us once again on the edges of the
lake wacket Tip, a close Briand station. Thanks to Aby Rural,
we catch up with disaster. Good afternoon, Grant, how are
you good up?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Theon Andy good up and everybody no very well this afternoon.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Just a little bit damp, I believe, yes, he's.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Damp one hundred and twenty six miles since Thursday. So yeah,
sort of getting forties forties, forty six's and one again
it hasn't been to the chill factor hasn't been around.
And you know we're talking ten days away from landing.
But see it's wet and again, springs just roaring out
(00:50):
of everywhere. That your lock and water falls coming down
and the sides of the roads and a bit of
a mess and what have you. But yes to Peptember
to the day is seven or one with seven and
one was seven and a half. So you know it's
good nine degrees.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
At the moment.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
And the steam sort of steam coming off the road
and which is great, but we don't grow them, we
don't graze the road. The center it steam coming off
the paddlecks and that grass going. But you know, she's
pretty tight. But you know, I was just I was
looking back on a diary from last year, and well,
a couple of weeks earlier, you know, we were September,
(01:27):
end of August, and September was really wet last year,
and I'd see we had that we're a seventy We
had a seventy milon and one dollop and then forty
in the next so similar to what we had this week.
But that was all in two days. So yeah, grounds
pretty saturated, and we could do with, you know, do
with some good, fine hot days. But the long range
(01:50):
forecast of year is not just looking that good. It's
still well, the tempers are up nine ten degrees, still
got a bit of rain to come. So I know
it certainly changed from what it was, you know, twenty
odd years ago when we came here. And I know
climate climate is changing for various reasons, and you know
it's always changed and it always will do. But you know,
(02:13):
always August and in September were always quite good months
and what have you. But yeah, it's just since of
the last few years, it's been that when when we're
getting the getting the rain, nothing through the winter and
then sort of sort of dry in the autumn. So yeah,
I have to look at what we're doing at least late.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
What is it? What have felled off? It's not that
long ago you were talking about it being too low.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
It was low. Yeah, it's really it's really high. And
actually last week, I think it was last week. It
was last Wednesday. I was over the Home and Gully
block and I got a call from sharing that works
for me to say that she was in town. Couldn't
get back out of the station because at the one
mile which at the Fern Hill there, the big slip
(02:57):
had come down a lot of water and she was
she was correct on that, and in fact, I couldn't
get home at night till about seven o'clock so I
because of the rain and it had just come down,
blown out colvits and blocked the road. So a lot
of traffic caught, you know, backed up from Greenorky, the
people that work up there coming back to Queenstown, the
(03:17):
people that live in Queenstown, work in Queenstown, trying to
get back to Gonawkey. So yeah, it was about four
or five hours and people were queued up, So it
was all right for some of them. They just went
back to the pub and had a few would imagine,
but it's all clear, and you know, you go through
there now and you wouldn't know what had happened. But yeah,
these rain events, there's certainly event GRT.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
You want to come in today around a rancher from
the States and he's talking about a disturbing number regarding
sheep figures over there.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah. So I just reading in the country wide that
I that I get and it's the headings called leave
the terrace to the farmer. The guy Hank Volga, and
he started of old sorry, and he started farming and
ranching as they call it in nineteen seventy one up
in sort of the boundaries in Nevada and Arizona. And
(04:09):
as the outbre he runs is called need More Sheep.
It's the need More Sheep Company, and he runs seven
thousand marino us. And then the article he goes to
say that, you know, they can't get the gold there
to share them, so basically it's the Kiwi boys and
girls go over there and do that. But and he
just has an article. He's an advocate for the for
the Free trade and he said that you know, and
(04:32):
basically that he's saying that especially in the agricultural sector.
The farmers here just need to get their ducks in
the line and get a bit more support within the
country probably, But he said that in the US there
were sixty million sheep and that's now down to three million,
three million booking, so sixteen million to three million, and
(04:54):
they have very little infrastructure, so he so will it's
to be sharing transportation, post tress and facilities. He said,
it's you know, it's such a big country and it's
very vast area that they that they can get these
things done. And he said that the he said it's
gotten the stage that in his opinion, he said without
(05:15):
the importation, without importing meat land, he said their markets
that they that they without the imported land, their markets
are limited to basically sort of religious holidays and selling
the farmer's market. So he's saying that there's more and
more with more and more foreign people coming into the country.
(05:39):
That is basically what's what's keeping their their their red
meat up. And I was just sort of thinking between
the lines with the what what was the Trump's doing
it that mightn't be good for for the MEA. But
he basically said that and if they didn't, if they
didn't have those big religious events. They he said, they
(05:59):
certain me and if they continue, said they desperately need
air land to meet the quota that they were to
try and meet what they've got and he said it's
he said, they we sort of covered this. He said,
there there's sheep, there's sheeper, all run on what they
call federal land, and that you know they've got the
(06:20):
greenies over there that I think the hard one range
is right, has you know, has not applicable now so
they obviously over the years, you know, they are able
to get the land. And now that the fraction comes
in a bit like around the world that the green
element don't want them there and they're more keen on
(06:41):
re introduced from the large credators.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
When you say Rancher, I straight away the fault to
the blazing settles ba Bean seen.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Well that's yeah, well that is that's a great film
and everybody should probably have a look at that. But
I don't think you're allowed to now. I don't think
it's LEAs correct to watch said is that right?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Of course it does. Is nothing wrong if it is
all about the Western lifestyle ground nothing wrong.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
With that, No indeed, and so you know, it's it's
it's sort of the theme that we're hearing more and more.
You know, we've got people are you know, he's saying
that people are still wanting wanting protein. And he said
because he went to finish it out, and he said,
the good news is red meat consumption is up substantially
in America. Recent recent cultures moving to America eat lamb
(07:30):
and the carnival diet is in vogue. And they say
over there, he reckons that walls making it come back
as a natural fiber, which we talk about here a bit,
and can't believe why it's not even more popular. And
he said, he reckons the American farmers and the sheep
farmers should sit down, knock back a few, knocked back
a few beers, he said, straighten the mes up. And
he said, we said pick a cold day so the
(07:50):
politicians will have their hands in their own pockets. So
I thought that was quite a good quote to finish with.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, really interest the ground as well. God bless the USA,
and God bless our disaster. Big Master brought to us
by Abbey RURALI always appreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, good talking. We'll talk next week.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Grabic Master on the edges of lake Walker Teppoo. This
is the Master up next Julian to Hiarichi from Fine Emergency,
New Zealand
Grab McMaster joins us once again on the edges of the
lake wacket Tip, a close Briand station. Thanks to Aby Rural,
we catch up with disaster. Good afternoon, Grant, how are
you good up?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Theon Andy good up and everybody no very well this afternoon.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Just a little bit damp, I believe, yes, he's.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Damp one hundred and twenty six miles since Thursday. So yeah,
sort of getting forties forties, forty six's and one again
it hasn't been to the chill factor hasn't been around.
And you know we're talking ten days away from landing.
But see it's wet and again, springs just roaring out
(00:50):
of everywhere. That your lock and water falls coming down
and the sides of the roads and a bit of
a mess and what have you. But yes to Peptember
to the day is seven or one with seven and
one was seven and a half. So you know it's
good nine degrees.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
At the moment.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
And the steam sort of steam coming off the road
and which is great, but we don't grow them, we
don't graze the road. The center it steam coming off
the paddlecks and that grass going. But you know, she's
pretty tight. But you know, I was just I was
looking back on a diary from last year, and well,
a couple of weeks earlier, you know, we were September,
(01:27):
end of August, and September was really wet last year,
and I'd see we had that we're a seventy We
had a seventy milon and one dollop and then forty
in the next so similar to what we had this week.
But that was all in two days. So yeah, grounds
pretty saturated, and we could do with, you know, do
with some good, fine hot days. But the long range
(01:50):
forecast of year is not just looking that good. It's
still well, the tempers are up nine ten degrees, still
got a bit of rain to come. So I know
it certainly changed from what it was, you know, twenty
odd years ago when we came here. And I know
climate climate is changing for various reasons, and you know
it's always changed and it always will do. But you know,
(02:13):
always August and in September were always quite good months
and what have you. But yeah, it's just since of
the last few years, it's been that when when we're
getting the getting the rain, nothing through the winter and
then sort of sort of dry in the autumn. So yeah,
I have to look at what we're doing at least late.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
What is it? What have felled off? It's not that
long ago you were talking about it being too low.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
It was low. Yeah, it's really it's really high. And
actually last week, I think it was last week. It
was last Wednesday. I was over the Home and Gully
block and I got a call from sharing that works
for me to say that she was in town. Couldn't
get back out of the station because at the one
mile which at the Fern Hill there, the big slip
(02:57):
had come down a lot of water and she was
she was correct on that, and in fact, I couldn't
get home at night till about seven o'clock so I
because of the rain and it had just come down,
blown out colvits and blocked the road. So a lot
of traffic caught, you know, backed up from Greenorky, the
people that work up there coming back to Queenstown, the
(03:17):
people that live in Queenstown, work in Queenstown, trying to
get back to Gonawkey. So yeah, it was about four
or five hours and people were queued up, So it
was all right for some of them. They just went
back to the pub and had a few would imagine,
but it's all clear, and you know, you go through
there now and you wouldn't know what had happened. But yeah,
these rain events, there's certainly event GRT.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
You want to come in today around a rancher from
the States and he's talking about a disturbing number regarding
sheep figures over there.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah. So I just reading in the country wide that
I that I get and it's the headings called leave
the terrace to the farmer. The guy Hank Volga, and
he started of old sorry, and he started farming and
ranching as they call it in nineteen seventy one up
in sort of the boundaries in Nevada and Arizona. And
(04:09):
as the outbre he runs is called need More Sheep.
It's the need More Sheep Company, and he runs seven
thousand marino us. And then the article he goes to
say that, you know, they can't get the gold there
to share them, so basically it's the Kiwi boys and
girls go over there and do that. But and he
just has an article. He's an advocate for the for
the Free trade and he said that you know, and
(04:32):
basically that he's saying that especially in the agricultural sector.
The farmers here just need to get their ducks in
the line and get a bit more support within the
country probably, But he said that in the US there
were sixty million sheep and that's now down to three million,
three million booking, so sixteen million to three million, and
(04:54):
they have very little infrastructure, so he so will it's
to be sharing transportation, post tress and facilities. He said,
it's you know, it's such a big country and it's
very vast area that they that they can get these
things done. And he said that the he said it's
gotten the stage that in his opinion, he said without
(05:15):
the importation, without importing meat land, he said their markets
that they that they without the imported land, their markets
are limited to basically sort of religious holidays and selling
the farmer's market. So he's saying that there's more and
more with more and more foreign people coming into the country.
(05:39):
That is basically what's what's keeping their their their red
meat up. And I was just sort of thinking between
the lines with the what what was the Trump's doing
it that mightn't be good for for the MEA. But
he basically said that and if they didn't, if they
didn't have those big religious events. They he said, they
(05:59):
certain me and if they continue, said they desperately need
air land to meet the quota that they were to
try and meet what they've got and he said it's
he said, they we sort of covered this. He said,
there there's sheep, there's sheeper, all run on what they
call federal land, and that you know they've got the
(06:20):
greenies over there that I think the hard one range
is right, has you know, has not applicable now so
they obviously over the years, you know, they are able
to get the land. And now that the fraction comes
in a bit like around the world that the green
element don't want them there and they're more keen on
(06:41):
re introduced from the large credators.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
When you say Rancher, I straight away the fault to
the blazing settles ba Bean seen.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Well that's yeah, well that is that's a great film
and everybody should probably have a look at that. But
I don't think you're allowed to now. I don't think
it's LEAs correct to watch said is that right?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Of course it does. Is nothing wrong if it is
all about the Western lifestyle ground nothing wrong.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
With that, No indeed, and so you know, it's it's
it's sort of the theme that we're hearing more and more.
You know, we've got people are you know, he's saying
that people are still wanting wanting protein. And he said
because he went to finish it out, and he said,
the good news is red meat consumption is up substantially
in America. Recent recent cultures moving to America eat lamb
(07:30):
and the carnival diet is in vogue. And they say
over there, he reckons that walls making it come back
as a natural fiber, which we talk about here a bit,
and can't believe why it's not even more popular. And
he said, he reckons the American farmers and the sheep
farmers should sit down, knock back a few, knocked back
a few beers, he said, straighten the mes up. And
he said, we said pick a cold day so the
(07:50):
politicians will have their hands in their own pockets. So
I thought that was quite a good quote to finish with.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, really interest the ground as well. God bless the USA,
and God bless our disaster. Big Master brought to us
by Abbey RURALI always appreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, good talking. We'll talk next week.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Grabic Master on the edges of lake Walker Teppoo. This
is the Master up next Julian to Hiarichi from Fine Emergency,
New Zealand
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