August 3, 2026 • 9 mins
Gran McMaster says why wilding pines are a problem that need sorted sooner than later.
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Grabbing grass to farms on the edges of Lake Walker,
Tippo at klosper And Station, and we catch up weekly
thanks to a team at Arby Rural Batman and Koba's
tearing Gore. Good afternoon, Disaster, Good.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Afternoon, Andy, Good afternoon everybody. Well I'm just fifteen k's
up the lake today from close burn up at Mount Kricheton,
giving Phil McMurray a hand of scanners. You, So scanning's
just started up around this area. Probably were getting close
to Lamb and further down south shortly, but yeah, morning
scanning started off. Will look dark this morning and a
(00:47):
few stifts of snow as I headed away, but the
days turned out all right. It's a cold breeze, but
the sun is out and yeah the snow hasn't come
to anything, so I know, just looking at the at
the forecast. So later on in the week we're not
getting the temper is going to be very very very cold.
But yeah, good day to day and made well. Mind
you he's got covered yards so you wouldn't want any
(01:09):
mode of them, but views went through in good conditions
scan well, so yeah, let's hope for nature keeps for biting.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
So no snow on the hills or anything up in
the basin that you can see.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
There was a it went around last night over and
Nicholas wall to peek through there up behind us, just
the skiff went through. But yeah, it's pretty much well,
it's sort of going now, but still quite a bit
of snow further back which has been hanging around. But
in saying that the day morning, so that's always always
(01:42):
a bit of a bonus. But yeah, pretty cold, pretty
cold all the time.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
So it's just August being August for hopefully touch Why
do we have a September to remember?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, exactly, And I just think, you know, last year
and memories are great thing, isn't it. Of course it's not,
but pretty good all this last year and then we
got that rain at the end of it, four hundred
miles over a couple of weeks, and it just kept going.
So hopefully it won't be quite like that. I mean,
we had another thirty two meals of rain on Friday
(02:11):
night here, so at least we've been we've been getting
a bit of rain, whereas this time last year we've
gone through from the autumn basically right through the winter
without any rain, including August until we got to the
end of August and then it didn't stop. So maybe
we've had enough just to keep the averages being averages.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So I'm close fur and as such, you're pretty much
in a holding position waiting for scanning. And let'st just
remember your season. You're about four weeks differential compared to
everybody else with your landing dates and the lakes.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, probably over. We know we won't start lambing until
about the eighth of October, so yeah, yeah, we'll scan. Well.
The US are still going around the hell blocks. I
just shifted a MiB yesterday of mixed age years and
you know, they're certainly utilizing all the feed and they're
looking all right. The beam I have been around another area,
(03:02):
so we're sort of everything's heading closer to the to
the wall shed now and we'll share on about the
twentieth and then scan about the twenty third hopefully. But
you know, things, you know, things are looking pretty good
with the blocks have been eaten out quite well, and
they'll come away good in the spring if we get
a good spring. But yeah, I think the best thing
(03:22):
is that the sheeper and god Neck and which is
good and the hog it's over over the hills are
they are utilizing all their crops. So that's good. There
we have we're actually carving at the moment. So the
heifers that we bought in as we do every year,
they were aied, but just a bit of a lack
(03:45):
of communications between the agent and the manager and didn't
realize they were actually starting through carved series. They've been
going a week but they're a eyed. So twenty five
from there we've had thirteen born and that should be
all tied it up on next week. So it comes
about around and a block with a bit of shell
(04:06):
of Thank.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Goodness, that's just what you want in August. Anyway, I've
told your time and again you not let us say
the beam of these days. It's a development squad.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
All right, for the bomb squad should be born.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Fair call on that, Hey Gren, you want to touch
on deer numbers as well.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, well we're gonna you know, there's deer a rampant
and but here I am that quite and you know
they've they've got a bigger problem with fellow deer than
we have. It's probably a bit warmer, but you know,
the helicopter's coming to these places and you know, shooting
sort of two hundred deer and and around the places
to try and a bit of containment. But I was
reading it in the in the Farmers Weekly about the
(04:46):
game animal Control and I don't actually know what it existed,
but it is a government department. And I think you said,
who's Minister.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
James Mega, Yeah, right, and minister are hunting and fishing.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, yeah, hunting and fishing, and so Wappity and Seeker
have been given the given the title. I've heard of
significant interest and so the Whappity obviously in children and
the SECA and the comments and the National Parks and
they're they're the first herds to have this, so it's
basically that they're going to be I guess it's with
(05:22):
the Wappitity, you know that's always been that's always been
in the National Park and I mean these these there
are introduced, but I guess it's just controlled culling, which
I guess they've always tried to do with the Waverty
and but the saying, you know, that's there's you know,
the scientific assessments of what needs to be cold and
(05:43):
what doesn't, and it just brings me to think, you know,
of all the areas within the country now and whether
the Tigo south and where everything you read on the
west coast, you know, the DN numbers are just out
of control, so to be, you know, sort of having
a colling of deer that have been introduced, I mean
(06:05):
more been introduced, but as in the Wappaty and the Seeker,
as opposed to the ones that are just you know,
coming off conservation land and for spilling out from that
and to productive farmland. It's sort of it doesn't seem
quite right. I think we need to be more proactive
where be the pigs there, possums, everything like that we got,
(06:28):
you know, somehow we need to get more money to
put into that, and we're sort of spoken about it before,
you know, with the wild and pine now. Karon I
went up to the Hermitage on Thursday and Friday. We
had a voucher to go there. At Mountain Crockett was
absolutely poured going in there on the Thursday, couldn't see
the front of the car let alone the mountain. But
on Saturday morning it was a beautiful day. The snow
(06:50):
was right there and you can see everything, but you know,
iconic landscapes and there and those wild and pines while
they're trying to get in with dozers and what have
you. You know, just from twice all through on all that
land that you know, that's he wouldn't call it prime
real estate as far as farming goes, but it's it's
worth nothing now with all those trees on it. So
you know, we look at we look at the weed
(07:12):
problems we've got, we've got and I guess them Olsworth,
So you know, it's a different situation now. Maybe hopefully
Nika who will be able to get in and spend
some money on weeds because there's a lot of them
and a lot of other other places. So I don't know,
you have these areas of national significance with these bear numbers,
but what about you know, the air productive farmland that's
(07:34):
also getting decimated by equally their dear coming out of
state forests and other conservation areas. And who's putting the
bill for that?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
And that's the argument the ecological disaster regarding the pins
we've talked about a time and before, but driving to
through Raised Junction on the way to Miller's Plat at
the weekend and all that farmland producing farmland it's gone
into carbon farming. It's a case of don't hate the player,
but hate the game. It's just fortunate.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I've never seen I don't think I've seen trees crow
as quick as through that Lawrence Beaumont area, and I
know firsthand. You know, that's bringing a lot of problems
with pigs are one of the big areas now that
are coming out and decimating some of those places. And
one of the sponsors of the show there property, so
(08:23):
you know, the more that go in, the more it happens.
And they're saying in this article about you know, you
can't leave it up to the individual, you know, Weekend
Warrior Hunter, but a lot of those people can't get
access to places anyway, and it's just not feasible to
that many deer. I mean, it is worse now. The
deer population is worse now than it was in the seventies,
(08:44):
late sixties, seventies when we had the Great Venison recovery going.
So you know, we thought that was bad enough, but
people are saying it's worse than that now.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Absolutely, Hey, good on your GRAMD will catch up next week.
Southern Charity indoor Charity dog trials just around the corner
as well.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yep, we'll report on that and keep warming down there.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I'm so grabbing Master. Thanks to Ivy Rural ben Bells up.
Next to comea
Grabbing grass to farms on the edges of Lake Walker,
Tippo at klosper And Station, and we catch up weekly
thanks to a team at Arby Rural Batman and Koba's
tearing Gore. Good afternoon, Disaster, Good.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Afternoon, Andy, Good afternoon everybody. Well I'm just fifteen k's
up the lake today from close burn up at Mount Kricheton,
giving Phil McMurray a hand of scanners. You, So scanning's
just started up around this area. Probably were getting close
to Lamb and further down south shortly, but yeah, morning
scanning started off. Will look dark this morning and a
(00:47):
few stifts of snow as I headed away, but the
days turned out all right. It's a cold breeze, but
the sun is out and yeah the snow hasn't come
to anything, so I know, just looking at the at
the forecast. So later on in the week we're not
getting the temper is going to be very very very cold.
But yeah, good day to day and made well. Mind
you he's got covered yards so you wouldn't want any
(01:09):
mode of them, but views went through in good conditions
scan well, so yeah, let's hope for nature keeps for biting.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
So no snow on the hills or anything up in
the basin that you can see.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
There was a it went around last night over and
Nicholas wall to peek through there up behind us, just
the skiff went through. But yeah, it's pretty much well,
it's sort of going now, but still quite a bit
of snow further back which has been hanging around. But
in saying that the day morning, so that's always always
(01:42):
a bit of a bonus. But yeah, pretty cold, pretty
cold all the time.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
So it's just August being August for hopefully touch Why
do we have a September to remember?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, exactly, And I just think, you know, last year
and memories are great thing, isn't it. Of course it's not,
but pretty good all this last year and then we
got that rain at the end of it, four hundred
miles over a couple of weeks, and it just kept going.
So hopefully it won't be quite like that. I mean,
we had another thirty two meals of rain on Friday
(02:11):
night here, so at least we've been we've been getting
a bit of rain, whereas this time last year we've
gone through from the autumn basically right through the winter
without any rain, including August until we got to the
end of August and then it didn't stop. So maybe
we've had enough just to keep the averages being averages.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So I'm close fur and as such, you're pretty much
in a holding position waiting for scanning. And let'st just
remember your season. You're about four weeks differential compared to
everybody else with your landing dates and the lakes.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, probably over. We know we won't start lambing until
about the eighth of October, so yeah, yeah, we'll scan. Well.
The US are still going around the hell blocks. I
just shifted a MiB yesterday of mixed age years and
you know, they're certainly utilizing all the feed and they're
looking all right. The beam I have been around another area,
(03:02):
so we're sort of everything's heading closer to the to
the wall shed now and we'll share on about the
twentieth and then scan about the twenty third hopefully. But
you know, things, you know, things are looking pretty good
with the blocks have been eaten out quite well, and
they'll come away good in the spring if we get
a good spring. But yeah, I think the best thing
(03:22):
is that the sheeper and god Neck and which is
good and the hog it's over over the hills are
they are utilizing all their crops. So that's good. There
we have we're actually carving at the moment. So the
heifers that we bought in as we do every year,
they were aied, but just a bit of a lack
(03:45):
of communications between the agent and the manager and didn't
realize they were actually starting through carved series. They've been
going a week but they're a eyed. So twenty five
from there we've had thirteen born and that should be
all tied it up on next week. So it comes
about around and a block with a bit of shell
(04:06):
of Thank.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Goodness, that's just what you want in August. Anyway, I've
told your time and again you not let us say
the beam of these days. It's a development squad.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
All right, for the bomb squad should be born.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Fair call on that, Hey Gren, you want to touch
on deer numbers as well.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, well we're gonna you know, there's deer a rampant
and but here I am that quite and you know
they've they've got a bigger problem with fellow deer than
we have. It's probably a bit warmer, but you know,
the helicopter's coming to these places and you know, shooting
sort of two hundred deer and and around the places
to try and a bit of containment. But I was
reading it in the in the Farmers Weekly about the
(04:46):
game animal Control and I don't actually know what it existed,
but it is a government department. And I think you said,
who's Minister.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
James Mega, Yeah, right, and minister are hunting and fishing.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, yeah, hunting and fishing, and so Wappity and Seeker
have been given the given the title. I've heard of
significant interest and so the Whappity obviously in children and
the SECA and the comments and the National Parks and
they're they're the first herds to have this, so it's
basically that they're going to be I guess it's with
(05:22):
the Wappitity, you know that's always been that's always been
in the National Park and I mean these these there
are introduced, but I guess it's just controlled culling, which
I guess they've always tried to do with the Waverty
and but the saying, you know, that's there's you know,
the scientific assessments of what needs to be cold and
(05:43):
what doesn't, and it just brings me to think, you know,
of all the areas within the country now and whether
the Tigo south and where everything you read on the
west coast, you know, the DN numbers are just out
of control, so to be, you know, sort of having
a colling of deer that have been introduced, I mean
(06:05):
more been introduced, but as in the Wappaty and the Seeker,
as opposed to the ones that are just you know,
coming off conservation land and for spilling out from that
and to productive farmland. It's sort of it doesn't seem
quite right. I think we need to be more proactive
where be the pigs there, possums, everything like that we got,
(06:28):
you know, somehow we need to get more money to
put into that, and we're sort of spoken about it before,
you know, with the wild and pine now. Karon I
went up to the Hermitage on Thursday and Friday. We
had a voucher to go there. At Mountain Crockett was
absolutely poured going in there on the Thursday, couldn't see
the front of the car let alone the mountain. But
on Saturday morning it was a beautiful day. The snow
(06:50):
was right there and you can see everything, but you know,
iconic landscapes and there and those wild and pines while
they're trying to get in with dozers and what have
you. You know, just from twice all through on all that
land that you know, that's he wouldn't call it prime
real estate as far as farming goes, but it's it's
worth nothing now with all those trees on it. So
you know, we look at we look at the weed
(07:12):
problems we've got, we've got and I guess them Olsworth,
So you know, it's a different situation now. Maybe hopefully
Nika who will be able to get in and spend
some money on weeds because there's a lot of them
and a lot of other other places. So I don't know,
you have these areas of national significance with these bear numbers,
but what about you know, the air productive farmland that's
(07:34):
also getting decimated by equally their dear coming out of
state forests and other conservation areas. And who's putting the
bill for that?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
And that's the argument the ecological disaster regarding the pins
we've talked about a time and before, but driving to
through Raised Junction on the way to Miller's Plat at
the weekend and all that farmland producing farmland it's gone
into carbon farming. It's a case of don't hate the player,
but hate the game. It's just fortunate.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I've never seen I don't think I've seen trees crow
as quick as through that Lawrence Beaumont area, and I
know firsthand. You know, that's bringing a lot of problems
with pigs are one of the big areas now that
are coming out and decimating some of those places. And
one of the sponsors of the show there property, so
(08:23):
you know, the more that go in, the more it happens.
And they're saying in this article about you know, you
can't leave it up to the individual, you know, Weekend
Warrior Hunter, but a lot of those people can't get
access to places anyway, and it's just not feasible to
that many deer. I mean, it is worse now. The
deer population is worse now than it was in the seventies,
(08:44):
late sixties, seventies when we had the Great Venison recovery going.
So you know, we thought that was bad enough, but
people are saying it's worse than that now.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Absolutely, Hey, good on your GRAMD will catch up next week.
Southern Charity indoor Charity dog trials just around the corner
as well.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yep, we'll report on that and keep warming down there.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I'm so grabbing Master. Thanks to Ivy Rural ben Bells up.
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