March 4, 2026 • 9 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Brand's Aston McMaster joins us once again thanks to Batman
of the team at Abby Rural. Greg, Good afternoon, we
missed you last week. You were away on a family
bonding trip.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah, good afternoon, Andy, good afternoon everybody. Yes, the mighty
that kept the track with my son and daughter and yeah,
we had a great, great time. The weather played its part.
First day up through the post was hot, so it's
good to be in the bosh puffing a bit. The
next day was quite very windy from from the Luxmore
Hunt over and down into the Irish Burn, but the
(00:38):
about seventy seventy five k and there winds there up
on the top and it's pretty hard. There's a couple
of people got got blind over. Actually it must have
just been the pack must have been a bit heavy,
as certainly wasn't. But yes, survived that. The next day
it was that night there was a really rough forecast
rained that night of that and the next day ten
minutes of rain and we walked out without any coat.
(00:59):
So so it was lucky with the weather. And you
get into field and you just realized on a beautiful
place we live and looking down into my old hometown
Tian now and we can talk about this another day.
But you know, you look there and once you get
up onto the top of Mount Blacksmourne, you look at
all the land and the channel basin that was basically
bought in by the Lands and Survey and still should
(01:21):
be in the balloted farms and still should be. But
you know a lot of land when you get up
there and look at it. So yeah, great, you know,
it's a great example of what was done to get
our country guard. Were the hat's busy, that's the four
we have fifty fifty per heart and when you're not
the fastest one up there and only get the bloody
(01:41):
top bunk so which that happened to us both nights.
So we actually didn't stay in the third half because
we'd sort of we've got to our match fitness end
and just carried on the core of the loose in
tiar now alert us and there for a few points
and to rehydrate after our after ascent.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Hey, how's everything looking at closeper in station. Haven't spoken
to you for a couple of weeks And finally we've
had a run of decent weather for a couple of
days at least, oh, we have it.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
It's a little bit cool in the mornings, but it's
a bit like summer used to be, you know, the
later the day, the hot of the sun. And that's
been the case for the last few days. And things
are looking really good still that the feed sort of
it's dried up a little bit, but you know, still
tendy there and utilizations good. You know, we've still got
water running and yeah, things are things are looking good.
(02:32):
We've just been up in our farm discussion group went
to Kral on Tuesday and stayed Tuesday night and back
back yesterday. But we went up to look at a
couple of places. We went up to look at Mount
Parker and also to Cabafey, which is a loan star
block there in Cherral. So the subjects were when we
(02:56):
were looking at collars on cattle and on beef cows.
And I don't know, I think it's probably I didn't
know much about it. Well, I didn't know anything about
it a little bit more now, but you know, it
could be one of the biggest changes I think I've
always said in my time farming. You know, the electric
sensing coming in was a big change, and scanning, you know,
(03:18):
great things that we really utilize. And while these collars
aren't for everybody, it's pretty fascinating. And I was, yeah,
it was just so so interesting that the first place
we went to, you know, very big paddocks and they
have the in the hell country and so he had
he had about three hundred cows breeding cows. They were
(03:38):
herepids with collars on and cleaning these big blocks up
and you know, it's just virtual fencing. And obviously you've
got waters involved in on hell blocks. It makes it
a bit more difficult. But I think one of the
one of the biggest things for that was the fact
that that you know, the cars, you can't put a
you can't put a cor on a on a on
a cattle beast until it's two hundred k's or or
(04:01):
a year old. I think I'm like something like that.
The cows are you know, they're attL to clean up
the hell and tag and what have you, and they
were doing that not to the detriment of the calf.
So that to me was a big you know, that
was a really that was a big plus. And but
the other interesting things that Cavafet, which is Loans Day,
you know, fourteen thousand news and don't know how means
(04:24):
eight hundred and fifty cows and other varieties of cattle,
but or ages. You know. One of their big things is,
you know, break feeding crops. So it takes about three
days to get a cow or a cattle. Bee's used
to it. And it's just when they when they do
the when they shift them, it's a bit of a
(04:44):
little vibration on the on their collar and there they go.
But another interesting point, well to me was the fact
that like when when they're feeding winter crop, there's very
little wastes because as we all know, you know, you
put your you put your your fence up for the
put the one wire up and if it's ten meters
or five meters or whatever it is, but they all
(05:04):
as soon as you take the back fence down, they
rush in and go straight to the other fence and
trample and crap on things. This way with this virtual fencing,
you know, just you give them a meter and they
just all go through and just they're all eating in
a line. And you might change you might, you know,
you might have to change that twice a day. But yeah,
you don't have to leave the office to do that.
(05:26):
It's incredible In fact, we're in the in the in
the wa Tachi Hotel. We had the fortune to stay there.
And the young guy Josh Meegel, who's sort of the
pr man, and he his parents have got quite a
big ball unit out of Bomaro, and I'm sitting with him.
(05:46):
We're having a bear at six o'clock at ninety five show.
They said, I'll shift these balls. So he falls up
on his falls up on us on his phone and
you can see the dots of sixty balls. He shifts
the virtual fence and you go back caught of our
later look at it and they've all gone through, so
you know, it certainly got its place. I don't think,
you know, we wouldn't. We wouldn't use it on close burden.
(06:07):
But you know, another example was cattle that are on
you know, the station over won Akaway that there's a lot
of a lot of river flats and the virtual fence
that and cattle around of the waterways and everything's tickety booth.
So yeah, really really fascinating.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
But you're quite the tech no person these days. I mean,
you've got a drone putting nights on today by the
sounds of it too.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Oh yeah, Well, there in the manual, but is shoveling
the stuff into the drone. But yeah, we've got that
seven hectiers of kale we have over it over at
the Homengully road. It's it's looking really good a little
bit later, so we thought we might just put a
bit of bit of ferret on it. And it's it's
it's hilly. I mean, the bulky put the stuff on there,
(06:54):
so it's not it's not like the north face of
the Eiger or anything. But to save any marks and
what have you, and I thought it'd be a good
thing to try. So yeah, he's going to be there
about a bit later on this afternoon and we're going
to put a tunnel and various and see how to
see how that goes.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
See, your phone must be loaded up with all these apps.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Now I don't know. The only apps I've got is
the apple in the truck that I have to smoke over. No,
I think, you know, it's probably a bit late for me.
But at Cavafe they got a staff of thirteen or
fourteen and there's like fourteen thousand using the rest of
cattle and big numbers, but you know, and it's all
(07:34):
young people there and they're all into this. You know,
everything's on their phone. So the junior shepherds, no to
go you know what the week's going to be. How
many shifts? Some goes around now and again and check obviously,
But you know, I think today's general. You know that
this generation now that are taking over, they've got all
that all that technology at the fingertips, and I think, Christ,
(07:55):
it wasn't my time because I'd be you know, they
can even you know, these some of these collars now
are going to be able to actually measure, you know,
how much that much covers and paddics. And as I
said to my group, well we used to go on
the you know, it wasn't about two thousand kgs to
do I matter for the for the stars on the
Spates camp. Yeah and yeah, and you weren't me, but
(08:18):
I didn't realize you weren't meant the drinks of Spates
Camp before you did that. But so once ak of
that sorted out, was a bit more reliable.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Hey, get on your ground, we'll catch you next week.
Dog trial results to be back on the table. Normality
war resume. We always appreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
No, it's great. It was the same a bit of
new technology. I came there absolutely buzzing. I just thought
it was so good. And you know what a great
place the young farmers and the and the people that
invent all the stuff are doing, and the guys that
just came out of Rocket Lab. So yeah, it gives
you a bit of faith.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Grammic Master thanks to Abby Rural. Next on the muster,
we'll go to south a Tiger NDE. You would head
farms between bout Cloth and Milton. We catch up fift
Brand's Aston McMaster joins us once again thanks to Batman
of the team at Abby Rural. Greg, Good afternoon, we
missed you last week. You were away on a family
bonding trip.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah, good afternoon, Andy, good afternoon everybody. Yes, the mighty
that kept the track with my son and daughter and yeah,
we had a great, great time. The weather played its part.
First day up through the post was hot, so it's
good to be in the bosh puffing a bit. The
next day was quite very windy from from the Luxmore
Hunt over and down into the Irish Burn, but the
(00:38):
about seventy seventy five k and there winds there up
on the top and it's pretty hard. There's a couple
of people got got blind over. Actually it must have
just been the pack must have been a bit heavy,
as certainly wasn't. But yes, survived that. The next day
it was that night there was a really rough forecast
rained that night of that and the next day ten
minutes of rain and we walked out without any coat.
(00:59):
So so it was lucky with the weather. And you
get into field and you just realized on a beautiful
place we live and looking down into my old hometown
Tian now and we can talk about this another day.
But you know, you look there and once you get
up onto the top of Mount Blacksmourne, you look at
all the land and the channel basin that was basically
bought in by the Lands and Survey and still should
(01:21):
be in the balloted farms and still should be. But
you know a lot of land when you get up
there and look at it. So yeah, great, you know,
it's a great example of what was done to get
our country guard. Were the hat's busy, that's the four
we have fifty fifty per heart and when you're not
the fastest one up there and only get the bloody
(01:41):
top bunk so which that happened to us both nights.
So we actually didn't stay in the third half because
we'd sort of we've got to our match fitness end
and just carried on the core of the loose in
tiar now alert us and there for a few points
and to rehydrate after our after ascent.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Hey, how's everything looking at closeper in station. Haven't spoken
to you for a couple of weeks And finally we've
had a run of decent weather for a couple of
days at least, oh, we have it.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
It's a little bit cool in the mornings, but it's
a bit like summer used to be, you know, the
later the day, the hot of the sun. And that's
been the case for the last few days. And things
are looking really good still that the feed sort of
it's dried up a little bit, but you know, still
tendy there and utilizations good. You know, we've still got
water running and yeah, things are things are looking good.
(02:32):
We've just been up in our farm discussion group went
to Kral on Tuesday and stayed Tuesday night and back
back yesterday. But we went up to look at a
couple of places. We went up to look at Mount
Parker and also to Cabafey, which is a loan star
block there in Cherral. So the subjects were when we
(02:56):
were looking at collars on cattle and on beef cows.
And I don't know, I think it's probably I didn't
know much about it. Well, I didn't know anything about
it a little bit more now, but you know, it
could be one of the biggest changes I think I've
always said in my time farming. You know, the electric
sensing coming in was a big change, and scanning, you know,
(03:18):
great things that we really utilize. And while these collars
aren't for everybody, it's pretty fascinating. And I was, yeah,
it was just so so interesting that the first place
we went to, you know, very big paddocks and they
have the in the hell country and so he had
he had about three hundred cows breeding cows. They were
(03:38):
herepids with collars on and cleaning these big blocks up
and you know, it's just virtual fencing. And obviously you've
got waters involved in on hell blocks. It makes it
a bit more difficult. But I think one of the
one of the biggest things for that was the fact
that that you know, the cars, you can't put a
you can't put a cor on a on a on
a cattle beast until it's two hundred k's or or
(04:01):
a year old. I think I'm like something like that.
The cows are you know, they're attL to clean up
the hell and tag and what have you, and they
were doing that not to the detriment of the calf.
So that to me was a big you know, that
was a really that was a big plus. And but
the other interesting things that Cavafet, which is Loans Day,
you know, fourteen thousand news and don't know how means
(04:24):
eight hundred and fifty cows and other varieties of cattle,
but or ages. You know. One of their big things is,
you know, break feeding crops. So it takes about three
days to get a cow or a cattle. Bee's used
to it. And it's just when they when they do
the when they shift them, it's a bit of a
(04:44):
little vibration on the on their collar and there they go.
But another interesting point, well to me was the fact
that like when when they're feeding winter crop, there's very
little wastes because as we all know, you know, you
put your you put your your fence up for the
put the one wire up and if it's ten meters
or five meters or whatever it is, but they all
(05:04):
as soon as you take the back fence down, they
rush in and go straight to the other fence and
trample and crap on things. This way with this virtual fencing,
you know, just you give them a meter and they
just all go through and just they're all eating in
a line. And you might change you might, you know,
you might have to change that twice a day. But yeah,
you don't have to leave the office to do that.
(05:26):
It's incredible In fact, we're in the in the in
the wa Tachi Hotel. We had the fortune to stay there.
And the young guy Josh Meegel, who's sort of the
pr man, and he his parents have got quite a
big ball unit out of Bomaro, and I'm sitting with him.
(05:46):
We're having a bear at six o'clock at ninety five show.
They said, I'll shift these balls. So he falls up
on his falls up on us on his phone and
you can see the dots of sixty balls. He shifts
the virtual fence and you go back caught of our
later look at it and they've all gone through, so
you know, it certainly got its place. I don't think,
you know, we wouldn't. We wouldn't use it on close burden.
(06:07):
But you know, another example was cattle that are on
you know, the station over won Akaway that there's a lot
of a lot of river flats and the virtual fence
that and cattle around of the waterways and everything's tickety booth.
So yeah, really really fascinating.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
But you're quite the tech no person these days. I mean,
you've got a drone putting nights on today by the
sounds of it too.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Oh yeah, Well, there in the manual, but is shoveling
the stuff into the drone. But yeah, we've got that
seven hectiers of kale we have over it over at
the Homengully road. It's it's looking really good a little
bit later, so we thought we might just put a
bit of bit of ferret on it. And it's it's
it's hilly. I mean, the bulky put the stuff on there,
(06:54):
so it's not it's not like the north face of
the Eiger or anything. But to save any marks and
what have you, and I thought it'd be a good
thing to try. So yeah, he's going to be there
about a bit later on this afternoon and we're going
to put a tunnel and various and see how to
see how that goes.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
See, your phone must be loaded up with all these apps.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Now I don't know. The only apps I've got is
the apple in the truck that I have to smoke over. No,
I think, you know, it's probably a bit late for me.
But at Cavafe they got a staff of thirteen or
fourteen and there's like fourteen thousand using the rest of
cattle and big numbers, but you know, and it's all
(07:34):
young people there and they're all into this. You know,
everything's on their phone. So the junior shepherds, no to
go you know what the week's going to be. How
many shifts? Some goes around now and again and check obviously,
But you know, I think today's general. You know that
this generation now that are taking over, they've got all
that all that technology at the fingertips, and I think, Christ,
(07:55):
it wasn't my time because I'd be you know, they
can even you know, these some of these collars now
are going to be able to actually measure, you know,
how much that much covers and paddics. And as I
said to my group, well we used to go on
the you know, it wasn't about two thousand kgs to
do I matter for the for the stars on the
Spates camp. Yeah and yeah, and you weren't me, but
(08:18):
I didn't realize you weren't meant the drinks of Spates
Camp before you did that. But so once ak of
that sorted out, was a bit more reliable.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Hey, get on your ground, we'll catch you next week.
Dog trial results to be back on the table. Normality
war resume. We always appreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
No, it's great. It was the same a bit of
new technology. I came there absolutely buzzing. I just thought
it was so good. And you know what a great
place the young farmers and the and the people that
invent all the stuff are doing, and the guys that
just came out of Rocket Lab. So yeah, it gives
you a bit of faith.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Grammic Master thanks to Abby Rural. Next on the muster,
we'll go to south a Tiger NDE. You would head
farms between bout Cloth and Milton. We catch up fift
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