The Muster- Keely Buckingham: Dairy NZ

Keely Buckingham looks ahead to upcoming Dairy NZ events.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
In if you know what I mean, put some mans
on its back and jem run. Just you and me
and a drug while like a Californie cake. We did
break it in if you know what I meant them
Welcome back to the Master on Hakanuis. I'm joined in

(00:21):
studio by Keeley Buckingham, bopping away there to a bit
of marshmallow. Good afternoon, your head looks like a marshmallow.
You're pretty much wrapped.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Up, I am. I've been out and about this morning
looking at the wetlands, so I needed to be rugged
up after a few weeks of being inside.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah, just a towel of a tape. Look. Durian said,
everything's been pretty what's it been lately for you guys.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Well, I've actually been away for the last three weeks.
But I think generally, apart from but a slow growth,
people are pretty happy with how things are going. Carving
seems to have gone along pretty quickly for a lot
of people talking to a few years today, no one
had any big qualms over the last you know, for

(01:03):
how the last two months have gone. Yeah, pretty happy
out there.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Two months. It's crazy to think that's how long since
we're we're talking about this whole carving set up and
all of a sudden it's all about mating.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, yeah, definitely. We're you know, most people used to
stay cracking into their second round all a part you know,
well through it, getting through it. So yeah, which is
just crazy to think, right.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Events, what's happening?

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Events? We're so excited. So we are back on after
I guess we didn't have any events since the end
of June started July, so we were pumped to be back
out on the road with events. So firstly next week
as our first round of smaller events. So we've got
some discussion groups happening. We've got the East Terden Discussion

(01:48):
Group up at JERD and Jess McKenzie's just out of
way Kuiki there happening on the eighth. And then the
day before that, actually a full season once a day
group happening at Fred Palett's, so Nathan's leading that one.
So that group hasn't been run for a week while,
but they are pretty excited to get back together. So

(02:09):
if anyone is full season once a Day and Nathan
hasn't been in touch with you, check out the website
for more details on that one. And then the following week,
we have partnered with Fontierra in light of the insights
reports being released, and we have got two events happening
with a focus on growing farm efficiencies and profit and

(02:32):
looking at Fontier's insights reports in their emission space. So
we've got two really great hosts there. So we are
at Stephen and Hailey Clark's on the fourteenth, so Tuesday
the fourteenth and Wednesday the fifteenth over at Riverton with
Luke and Gen Templeton, and so the focus on those events.

(02:53):
We've picked those hosts as people that are not only
really really efficient from a profit perspective and doing great things,
but also I guess are churning out really good pasture
harvested numbers.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
So the Smaller Herds group tell us about that.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yep, so smaller herds there is four farms or running
herd sizes. I think it's of less than three hundred
and fifty.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
So it's not hobby farm or anything like that.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
No, no, no, certainly not ten cows. But I guess
with the approach with that group, that's one that's come
back online after a wee hiatus, but things on smaller
scale they can that discussion. I guess they probably don't
have the the scale two.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
It's a different synergy, different farming.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Synergy, Yeah, differently, and you know they're running smaller teams
or maybe they're just mum and dad businesses, so the
conversation is quite different compared to that of a thousand cows.
So really excited to have that one back online. And
so that one that's at the end of the month,
So Nathan is heading who Ivan and Denise hoppers for
that one are the twenty first of October, So that'd

(04:05):
be really cool to get that one back on. I
think you said quite a few people interested, but if
you are, you know in that I guess that between
three hundred four hundred cow size or this certainly head
along to that one. Looking forward to getting back engaged
with that group of farmers.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
So if people want to find out a bit more
of Keeley, what's the HAPs, where do you go?

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yep? So either contact any of the local team myself, Nathan, Veronica,
Kate or James or check out the Daryan Zaid website
Ford Slash so it's dering z dot codd in zid
Ford Slash events.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Always good to catch out. Now you put your marshmallow
hat back on and we'll see you out of a
little bit of marshmallow cool.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Thanks Andy, I mean put some.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Kelley Buckingham of Dairy and Z. You're listening to the
mustard before you wrap up. Lynn Berry gony came.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
We could break it in if you know how I mean,
put somebody on it. We could