November 27, 2025 • 8 mins
Jamie Mackay looks back at a successful farmers' shout which was held at the Woodhead's property in South Otago.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Jamie McKay, host of the Country and joins US and
the Country Crossover. A little bit of Everril Levine for
you there, Jamie. Although she's not young everl Lavine, that
song is actually what twenty and two, twenty three years old?
She's now forty one, for goodness sake.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah, what was her biggest song?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Complicated?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yes, that's right, I do remember that.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Anyway, the day after, the night before, the day yes,
after the night before.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, well we snuck away. This is, of course the
Southern storm shout at Nigel and Leanne Woodhead's place. And
I think Nigel's got a bit of a woodhead this
morning or this afternoon, because he or you're telling me
they drew stumps at about one.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Thirty, it sounds like it.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, she's well, we got out of there about eight o'clock,
and I know you had to go home a wee
bit earlier, but do you know there was they came
and waves, and they went and waves, and when we
left there was still a good crowd there and none
of them really looked like they wanted to go home.
So I thought they might have a bit of a
job shutting it down. Because Hayden Finch from Spates, who
(01:11):
was running the Spates bar the Emerson's tiny pub had
to go at about seven or half bar seven, but
he was gonna. He was there to all the bitter end,
so it was really good. I think it was a
great day out. I talked to lots of farmers Andy
and they really appreciated the fact that Spates and Emerson's
and Silver Fern Farms and give Murray Coburn a bit
(01:32):
of a shout out from mainland minerals as well. He
put all the chops on the barbecue, which was fantastic.
So just all these people contributed and it was really good.
There was lots of silence being made, which meant people
couldn't be there. There was a fire fighting exercise down
the road in Bellcluther where there was a bit of
a burnoff gone a rye or something like that, and
(01:54):
so there were a lot of people who would have
been there but couldn't. But I think we would have
to declare it a success.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I think so. Murray cobra and as well driving to
Wanica after the events, so he's certainly put in the
effort to get there.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Well he did. He took the long way to get
to Wanakah but yeah, no good on him, and you
know Mainland Minerals. As I say, all those companies A
and Z did the coffee cart and the ice creams
andy were an absolute hit not only with the kids
but with also also with the grown ups. So you know,
to all those companies, thank you very very much, but
especially to Emerson's because Greg Mensis from Emerson's it was
(02:29):
his idea and they do a great job, those guys. Yeah,
I love getting that tiny pub out and about taking
it to the country and it's it's a magnificent venue,
isn't it.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Absolutely And they're really approachable guys as well. And Alan
McCleary your share welling up with Andy Fraser and Alan McCleary. Now,
I thought he'd know every backroad in South Otago like
the back of his hand due to him going and
catching up with cockies. But we got lost getting there.
For God's sake.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Well, I'd never been on that road before, of course,
coming from the dned and end you turn off on
that turn off on the back road to Katangata. But
the tiny pub went down that road. But what they
didn't figure out there's a low railway crossing or something there,
and they couldn't get the tiny pub underneath it, so
they had to back it back seven or eight hundred
(03:16):
meters reverse it, you can imagine that, Yeah, and then
take it around another way. So they had lots of
fun and games even getting the tiny pub there, but
they got there in the end and hopefully they got
it home in one piece.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
But look, it was yeah, look a great day. It
was warm day, jeezus. And tell you what, but a
few fires around the show at the moment.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, well that's what we said. There was one down
the road close, There's there's one down in Weymouth. Yeah, yeah,
so there's a couple up the road. There's one at Palmerston,
there's one further up up the road from there. And
you know, like the last or Wednesday and Thursday. Wednesday
was actually almost brutally hot here in Duned and I
think twenty nine touching thirty degrees. It was very warm
(03:55):
again yesterday and windy and just talking to a lot
of the fun especially in the South Otago region, they're saying,
you know, we don't want to say this, but we're
crying out for rain because you know, days like that
do duck a hell of a lot of water out
of the system. So yeah, you can't believe it. After
the wet spring we've had that you're crying out for
(04:16):
rain at the end of November.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
That's just the way it goes in South and While
and I won't forget this either. A shout out to
Wilson DeVry as well, part of the James Egger crew
that came up. Was great to meet your mate and look,
people made the effort to get this, so that was
really cool.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, it was good to see a lot of your
correspondents there. James Edgar, he's got a bit more life
than his old man Budgy. Budgy's meant to be retired.
He's doing all the work and James is at the
tiny pub, So come on budget. You need to get
your life in order pretty much. Now.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
This is happening at the New Zealand Rural Games. But
I actually thought it was going to be like a
Dog's Show reincarnated, but I think it's just a terminology
around it. You're going to be broadcasting on TV and
Z the Sheep Dog Trials. I'm the New Zealand Rural
Games next year. That hasn't happened for a while.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well, yes or no. I've been involved in the Rural Games,
not only longer, but and I commentated the dog trials Andy,
which was quite a thrill because my father was a
dog trialist and I ended up in my younger years
having a couple of pretty good dogs that were given
to me by a neighbor who got them from a
very good dog troll man. So I actually got a
(05:25):
dog that was good enough effectively to train me. So
I had had reasonable dogs, so I kind of know
the basics of dog trilling, the hunter away and heading events.
But at the Rural Games, and I don't know what
they're talking about. Is televising more of it on TV
one what they have done in the past, andyes, they've
always had a delayed one hour program which comes out
(05:45):
about a week or ten days after the Rural Games.
It was on TV three. TV one of obviously picked
up the bat and there and are running with it.
But it'll be interesting to see what format it takes,
because they have a really interesting format of what they
When I was commentating at the Rural Games, it's a
real crowd pleaser. You know, they have heading events and
(06:06):
hunting hunter away events and it's not quite like your
traditional dog trialing, you know. But anyhow, it's a very
easy sport for people to watch and understand, and I
think it's a dog versus sheep versus man. It makes
for good viewing. And I don't know who they'll get
to commentate it. The late John Gordon's no longer with us,
(06:28):
but he used to do a brilliant job of commentating
the dog trials, and I think it's just a reflection
of that urban people love to see what farmers are
up to, and honestly, some of the dogs, especially the
hunter ways, some of the controls they have on the
hunter Ways is amazing because they do have a yarding
event or the dog trill finishes with a yarding event,
(06:49):
which would normally, of course be the domain of the
heading dog, the eye dog, but they are able to
yard these sheep with Hunter ways. The control they have
over them is just amazing. And they are magnificent, big
big dogs with lots of noise. So that's a great
spectator sport.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Good only Jamie will leave it there, You enjoy the
weekend Golf's on the agenda, I suppose yes.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
The Saint Andrew's Cross is up for grabs at the
Bell mckilln or Otago Golf Club. It's the oldest oldest
prize available at a club that's over one hundred and
fifty years old. I want to get my name on
it tomorrow and you're not holding my.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Breath and remember it's just a game.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, I hate. The funny thing is there's no rugby,
no rugby this weekend. It's just going to be so
so different. We can and we haven't even got an
Ashes test to look forward to. Andy. We've got to
wait till next week for that one.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Until I get done in the Pink Bull test. Can
only Jamie leave it there? Always out? Bye Bye Jamie
McKay and the Country Crossover. Next, we're a way to
catch up with Don Morrison, Willowbank farmer and Alliance Ball director.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
He
Jamie McKay, host of the Country and joins US and
the Country Crossover. A little bit of Everril Levine for
you there, Jamie. Although she's not young everl Lavine, that
song is actually what twenty and two, twenty three years old?
She's now forty one, for goodness sake.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah, what was her biggest song?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Complicated?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yes, that's right, I do remember that.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Anyway, the day after, the night before, the day yes,
after the night before.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, well we snuck away. This is, of course the
Southern storm shout at Nigel and Leanne Woodhead's place. And
I think Nigel's got a bit of a woodhead this
morning or this afternoon, because he or you're telling me
they drew stumps at about one.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Thirty, it sounds like it.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, she's well, we got out of there about eight o'clock,
and I know you had to go home a wee
bit earlier, but do you know there was they came
and waves, and they went and waves, and when we
left there was still a good crowd there and none
of them really looked like they wanted to go home.
So I thought they might have a bit of a
job shutting it down. Because Hayden Finch from Spates, who
(01:11):
was running the Spates bar the Emerson's tiny pub had
to go at about seven or half bar seven, but
he was gonna. He was there to all the bitter end,
so it was really good. I think it was a
great day out. I talked to lots of farmers Andy
and they really appreciated the fact that Spates and Emerson's
and Silver Fern Farms and give Murray Coburn a bit
(01:32):
of a shout out from mainland minerals as well. He
put all the chops on the barbecue, which was fantastic.
So just all these people contributed and it was really good.
There was lots of silence being made, which meant people
couldn't be there. There was a fire fighting exercise down
the road in Bellcluther where there was a bit of
a burnoff gone a rye or something like that, and
(01:54):
so there were a lot of people who would have
been there but couldn't. But I think we would have
to declare it a success.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I think so. Murray cobra and as well driving to
Wanica after the events, so he's certainly put in the
effort to get there.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Well he did. He took the long way to get
to Wanakah but yeah, no good on him, and you
know Mainland Minerals. As I say, all those companies A
and Z did the coffee cart and the ice creams
andy were an absolute hit not only with the kids
but with also also with the grown ups. So you know,
to all those companies, thank you very very much, but
especially to Emerson's because Greg Mensis from Emerson's it was
(02:29):
his idea and they do a great job, those guys. Yeah,
I love getting that tiny pub out and about taking
it to the country and it's it's a magnificent venue,
isn't it.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Absolutely And they're really approachable guys as well. And Alan
McCleary your share welling up with Andy Fraser and Alan McCleary. Now,
I thought he'd know every backroad in South Otago like
the back of his hand due to him going and
catching up with cockies. But we got lost getting there.
For God's sake.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Well, I'd never been on that road before, of course,
coming from the dned and end you turn off on
that turn off on the back road to Katangata. But
the tiny pub went down that road. But what they
didn't figure out there's a low railway crossing or something there,
and they couldn't get the tiny pub underneath it, so
they had to back it back seven or eight hundred
(03:16):
meters reverse it, you can imagine that, Yeah, and then
take it around another way. So they had lots of
fun and games even getting the tiny pub there, but
they got there in the end and hopefully they got
it home in one piece.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
But look, it was yeah, look a great day. It
was warm day, jeezus. And tell you what, but a
few fires around the show at the moment.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, well that's what we said. There was one down
the road close, There's there's one down in Weymouth. Yeah, yeah,
so there's a couple up the road. There's one at Palmerston,
there's one further up up the road from there. And
you know, like the last or Wednesday and Thursday. Wednesday
was actually almost brutally hot here in Duned and I
think twenty nine touching thirty degrees. It was very warm
(03:55):
again yesterday and windy and just talking to a lot
of the fun especially in the South Otago region, they're saying,
you know, we don't want to say this, but we're
crying out for rain because you know, days like that
do duck a hell of a lot of water out
of the system. So yeah, you can't believe it. After
the wet spring we've had that you're crying out for
(04:16):
rain at the end of November.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
That's just the way it goes in South and While
and I won't forget this either. A shout out to
Wilson DeVry as well, part of the James Egger crew
that came up. Was great to meet your mate and look,
people made the effort to get this, so that was
really cool.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, it was good to see a lot of your
correspondents there. James Edgar, he's got a bit more life
than his old man Budgy. Budgy's meant to be retired.
He's doing all the work and James is at the
tiny pub, So come on budget. You need to get
your life in order pretty much. Now.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
This is happening at the New Zealand Rural Games. But
I actually thought it was going to be like a
Dog's Show reincarnated, but I think it's just a terminology
around it. You're going to be broadcasting on TV and
Z the Sheep Dog Trials. I'm the New Zealand Rural
Games next year. That hasn't happened for a while.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well, yes or no. I've been involved in the Rural Games,
not only longer, but and I commentated the dog trials Andy,
which was quite a thrill because my father was a
dog trialist and I ended up in my younger years
having a couple of pretty good dogs that were given
to me by a neighbor who got them from a
very good dog troll man. So I actually got a
(05:25):
dog that was good enough effectively to train me. So
I had had reasonable dogs, so I kind of know
the basics of dog trilling, the hunter away and heading events.
But at the Rural Games, and I don't know what
they're talking about. Is televising more of it on TV
one what they have done in the past, andyes, they've
always had a delayed one hour program which comes out
(05:45):
about a week or ten days after the Rural Games.
It was on TV three. TV one of obviously picked
up the bat and there and are running with it.
But it'll be interesting to see what format it takes,
because they have a really interesting format of what they
When I was commentating at the Rural Games, it's a
real crowd pleaser. You know, they have heading events and
(06:06):
hunting hunter away events and it's not quite like your
traditional dog trialing, you know. But anyhow, it's a very
easy sport for people to watch and understand, and I
think it's a dog versus sheep versus man. It makes
for good viewing. And I don't know who they'll get
to commentate it. The late John Gordon's no longer with us,
(06:28):
but he used to do a brilliant job of commentating
the dog trials, and I think it's just a reflection
of that urban people love to see what farmers are
up to, and honestly, some of the dogs, especially the
hunter ways, some of the controls they have on the
hunter Ways is amazing because they do have a yarding
event or the dog trill finishes with a yarding event,
(06:49):
which would normally, of course be the domain of the
heading dog, the eye dog, but they are able to
yard these sheep with Hunter ways. The control they have
over them is just amazing. And they are magnificent, big
big dogs with lots of noise. So that's a great
spectator sport.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Good only Jamie will leave it there, You enjoy the
weekend Golf's on the agenda, I suppose yes.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
The Saint Andrew's Cross is up for grabs at the
Bell mckilln or Otago Golf Club. It's the oldest oldest
prize available at a club that's over one hundred and
fifty years old. I want to get my name on
it tomorrow and you're not holding my.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Breath and remember it's just a game.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, I hate. The funny thing is there's no rugby,
no rugby this weekend. It's just going to be so
so different. We can and we haven't even got an
Ashes test to look forward to. Andy. We've got to
wait till next week for that one.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Until I get done in the Pink Bull test. Can
only Jamie leave it there? Always out? Bye Bye Jamie
McKay and the Country Crossover. Next, we're a way to
catch up with Don Morrison, Willowbank farmer and Alliance Ball director.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
He
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