September 3, 2025 • 8 mins
Mark joins us for a chat just days out from the World Ploughing Championships near Prague.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
The Musters on the farm, brought to you by Southland
District Council working together for a better Southland.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
By the Rule, with the happy away over to the
Czech Republic this afternoon on the muster Mark Dylan plowman
Extraordinaire once again at the World Plowing Championships.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
He was over there last year at the event in Estonia.
He's there again this year and surprise, surprise, he's away
back over for next year's edition as well, and he
joins us once again this afternoon as they start to
get organized for the World Plowing Champs on the fifth
and sixth of September.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Bob Good, afternoon, house, things.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
You're not to read any how's everything going over on
the other side of the world in the plowing sense
of suppose?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Well, they've been a bit of rain this week, which
is really working because Bill too, which ago we had
thirty six three days, which is a bit hot for
our self. Inflience has come from the way the climate
that so we've addapted to that. But yeah, we hit
a few issues with the gear, just bending parts, but
we managed to source some new parts, so we've got
the bolded that that's going to.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Help the process thirty six degrees. Your venick ten looks spectacular.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Yeah, yeah apparently up what nastly the soccolone is going
to be great when.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I get in general over there.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Though.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
The season, how's it been?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Ye have been?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
What of the normal end has been? Up been sort
of more sporadic, whether there's both some of the evening
you know, really went at harvest and then they've had
a good run where we've been here and all the
habits hold it up and some of the goals that
started seating.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Now, last time we spoke to you, you were getting
prepared for the event. What's happened since then is are
pretty much just practicing and refining your play out in
the lead up.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Yeah, it has been yet practicing different so old work,
different soul talks, and the soil has been changing a
bit with the montu too, So just trying to work
on the what angle we're going to take it in
and you're trying to get the best result.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Again, what's the soil type like?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Uh, the stuff we're in today? Well, there has been
the grass for practicing. The other day we had ye
a real very very sensitive only just to play a
couple of mills here there, and that makes a big
difference stuftware and a petrol grass land. To that said,
a bit of moisture on it, but it's quite angulating
and they probably had it for three weeks ago, so
it's quite a bit of growth on it as well.
So whether we can we beginning today, it shall pro
(02:19):
body work at the play on what it's going to
be like to get the grass period. It might be a challenged,
but there the ghosts look seem to behaling brou when.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
It comes down to the drawing of the plus to
say if they have much of a bearing on the event,
has such.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Oh, definitely last year in Estonia, the ground we had
in the practice, we were lucky enough. We probably had
some of the beast stuff in the patticant. You know
we're singing and that things are going really well, and
then on the day it's some real stuff, gluggy stuff,
which probably did the date to cook as I could have.
And he didn't need that was he didn't place as
well as all the lucks. But the plot drawer is
a huge part of it.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
So when do you find out which plot you've.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Got we draw plots of we've got church service to
know to reddication and in the park or church, and
then I think it must be tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
We have plot drove a location of whereabouts you guys
are doing these world chairs.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
You're not far from Prague, is that right?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
It's only about well, if you get a blurber or
a bolt, best six k's into ten and we're actually
right in the front path of the aport, So plans
plains y coming past here about every three to seven minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I suppose as far as logistics it's a good thing.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Yeah. We just well we've got to rental car at
the airport and drove up to the university we were staying,
so there's a a bit fifteen k's down thro to
the eport and such a seven caves into town. So
that seen enough, right.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
So when it comes down to doing your plowing as such,
and you're trying to get the perfect furrow, just how
fine are the margins and what you're looking for?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I mean, we talk about all.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
These guys at the top of the game end ladies
for that matter, what is the difference between first and
say sixth place for example?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
How fine are we looking?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Points bars can only be down to some days if
it was really taught half a point between first and second. Yeah,
so there's there's does I suppose you eat your twenty
different espects and then there's spec et ports from one
to teen, So then you get the different three panels
of judges. So if he can get teams and everything,
that's perfect. But if you're getting six and sevens and
then they go beside just getting saving the night, so
it heads up to the end of the day to
(04:05):
give you that final school.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
So when you're practice saying how many hours a day
does ed entail?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
We usually get in the car before right we're tring
to be out here at the panic. Well this morning,
we're in the pedict play on the day and then
we usually work until four to four of each day.
We're getting a furias and and I think I'll put
about two hundred leaders a dayser through the water already.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Well as far as fuel on the likes, do you
have sponsorship for that over there or is it all
just off your own back?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
That's off our own back, but I worked, I suppose
I have a lot of sponsors come on board. That
goes in the fount and whether it gets allocated to
fund to maintenance or fuel or travel or keeping the
sales hydrated and feeding stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Like that, keeping your sales hydrated at that term. So
how many people? How many competitors are you up against?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
There's twenty six in the conventional and I think there's
twenty two in the reverse of them.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
And who are the ones to look out for? Who
are your main opposition?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
I was suppose the Irish guy here, he's so Martin Coy,
he's an older chip. I think he's eighty one, he's
still playing. He's won the World's four times or four times.
And there's multiple weather guys here. They've got world titles
as well. Scotsman Andrew Mitchell, he's won three or four
world titles. Yeah, but looking around the field, there's a
lot of tough comps of competition, especially looking here in
(05:20):
the grass brickness has been real party playing getting done.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
An eighty one year old is a four time world champion.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Yeah, he hasn't played for a few years, but he
has he won at four times in the past.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
That's unreal.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Now, we talked about this last time the camera ridery.
Is it the same feeling at the event this year?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Is what you're saying?
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Last time, he's probably even better. Like it's splits, you
get to know people but more. And then there's a
few of the young fellows that have played on this
year too, so you're catching up with you seeing the
looking at the playing, throwing all he's around, give him
a bit of beau.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Now, as far as the feeling towards New Zealand, over
there in New Zealand, agriculture is such, I mean we're
hearing about door meets of alliance of the likes? Has
that brought up in conversation at all when you're talking
to these people from over the EU Europe.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Play Ye, that hasn't really come up. And coup a
lot of a lot of people coming up and asking
about what the Soul Talk's going to be like in
twenty nine, and he has a bit of a buzz
around for counter in there and they had a lot
of people are really ten to commit to the Zelan
and so we can showcase what's going on.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
So just put it into context.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Twenty twenty nine is going to be held at Riversdale,
the world plowing chams. Logistically, what what are you planning
on as far as the event, I mean, you've been
there often enough now to know what it needs. What's
it going to take to pull it off.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Well, we've got a great committee and I'm pretty confident
we'll pull it off and run a really good event,
says Yeah. Putting the logistics to chieve together, shifting people around,
but the commendation. So we've got the disordered already enders
having good tours and stuff in the good ground. And yeah,
well with the probably the thing over here. The workshop
was lacking a little firstep. We're lucky at the family.
(06:51):
It was really well quick for the marshaling ad was
a bit slow to mark, but they've caught up again now.
So they've got worlders and grinders and stuff here first.
So if we need to do a mortifications or change
any shoes and just just go back to the yard
and get don't do it and get done what you
need to do.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
This might sound a little cliche, Bob, but but do
you get a plowman's lunch for a feed?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
You do? You do? Just get a lunch of us
We breakfast in the mornings and then we hit out.
They get a bit picked lunch and we've got a
camp cheese on the back of the car. So we
pulled them out and heavy, a lunch and a dB
and be out about what we're doing and what we
think here we can make things work better than what
we couldn't.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Hey, awesome, Bob, always appreciate your time. All the best
for the event. We're all backing you. And once again
I am stand at how easily I can talk to
you on the other side of the world, and I
struggle to talk to somebody twenty five meters away from
me here on the main street to go on cell phones.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
But nonetheless, all the best for the next couple of
days a and we've got your back. Enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Awesome things so any much prettier so.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Mark Dylan play I'm an extraordinary over near Prague at
the World Plowing Champs on the fifth and sex of
some timber. So we'll look out for results of this
with eager interest as well. All the best of Ob
over there on his travels and his wife Sonya as well.
Peter Gardin's up next, a bit closer to home. He's
at Nepdale. You're listening to the muster
The Musters on the farm, brought to you by Southland
District Council working together for a better Southland.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
By the Rule, with the happy away over to the
Czech Republic this afternoon on the muster Mark Dylan plowman
Extraordinaire once again at the World Plowing Championships.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
He was over there last year at the event in Estonia.
He's there again this year and surprise, surprise, he's away
back over for next year's edition as well, and he
joins us once again this afternoon as they start to
get organized for the World Plowing Champs on the fifth
and sixth of September.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Bob Good, afternoon, house, things.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
You're not to read any how's everything going over on
the other side of the world in the plowing sense
of suppose?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Well, they've been a bit of rain this week, which
is really working because Bill too, which ago we had
thirty six three days, which is a bit hot for
our self. Inflience has come from the way the climate
that so we've addapted to that. But yeah, we hit
a few issues with the gear, just bending parts, but
we managed to source some new parts, so we've got
the bolded that that's going to.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Help the process thirty six degrees. Your venick ten looks spectacular.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Yeah, yeah apparently up what nastly the soccolone is going
to be great when.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I get in general over there.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Though.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
The season, how's it been?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Ye have been?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
What of the normal end has been? Up been sort
of more sporadic, whether there's both some of the evening
you know, really went at harvest and then they've had
a good run where we've been here and all the
habits hold it up and some of the goals that
started seating.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Now, last time we spoke to you, you were getting
prepared for the event. What's happened since then is are
pretty much just practicing and refining your play out in
the lead up.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Yeah, it has been yet practicing different so old work,
different soul talks, and the soil has been changing a
bit with the montu too, So just trying to work
on the what angle we're going to take it in
and you're trying to get the best result.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Again, what's the soil type like?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Uh, the stuff we're in today? Well, there has been
the grass for practicing. The other day we had ye
a real very very sensitive only just to play a
couple of mills here there, and that makes a big
difference stuftware and a petrol grass land. To that said,
a bit of moisture on it, but it's quite angulating
and they probably had it for three weeks ago, so
it's quite a bit of growth on it as well.
So whether we can we beginning today, it shall pro
(02:19):
body work at the play on what it's going to
be like to get the grass period. It might be a challenged,
but there the ghosts look seem to behaling brou when.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
It comes down to the drawing of the plus to
say if they have much of a bearing on the event,
has such.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Oh, definitely last year in Estonia, the ground we had
in the practice, we were lucky enough. We probably had
some of the beast stuff in the patticant. You know
we're singing and that things are going really well, and
then on the day it's some real stuff, gluggy stuff,
which probably did the date to cook as I could have.
And he didn't need that was he didn't place as
well as all the lucks. But the plot drawer is
a huge part of it.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
So when do you find out which plot you've.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Got we draw plots of we've got church service to
know to reddication and in the park or church, and
then I think it must be tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
We have plot drove a location of whereabouts you guys
are doing these world chairs.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
You're not far from Prague, is that right?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
It's only about well, if you get a blurber or
a bolt, best six k's into ten and we're actually
right in the front path of the aport, So plans
plains y coming past here about every three to seven minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I suppose as far as logistics it's a good thing.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Yeah. We just well we've got to rental car at
the airport and drove up to the university we were staying,
so there's a a bit fifteen k's down thro to
the eport and such a seven caves into town. So
that seen enough, right.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
So when it comes down to doing your plowing as such,
and you're trying to get the perfect furrow, just how
fine are the margins and what you're looking for?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I mean, we talk about all.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
These guys at the top of the game end ladies
for that matter, what is the difference between first and
say sixth place for example?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
How fine are we looking?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Points bars can only be down to some days if
it was really taught half a point between first and second. Yeah,
so there's there's does I suppose you eat your twenty
different espects and then there's spec et ports from one
to teen, So then you get the different three panels
of judges. So if he can get teams and everything,
that's perfect. But if you're getting six and sevens and
then they go beside just getting saving the night, so
it heads up to the end of the day to
(04:05):
give you that final school.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
So when you're practice saying how many hours a day
does ed entail?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
We usually get in the car before right we're tring
to be out here at the panic. Well this morning,
we're in the pedict play on the day and then
we usually work until four to four of each day.
We're getting a furias and and I think I'll put
about two hundred leaders a dayser through the water already.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Well as far as fuel on the likes, do you
have sponsorship for that over there or is it all
just off your own back?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
That's off our own back, but I worked, I suppose
I have a lot of sponsors come on board. That
goes in the fount and whether it gets allocated to
fund to maintenance or fuel or travel or keeping the
sales hydrated and feeding stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Like that, keeping your sales hydrated at that term. So
how many people? How many competitors are you up against?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
There's twenty six in the conventional and I think there's
twenty two in the reverse of them.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
And who are the ones to look out for? Who
are your main opposition?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
I was suppose the Irish guy here, he's so Martin Coy,
he's an older chip. I think he's eighty one, he's
still playing. He's won the World's four times or four times.
And there's multiple weather guys here. They've got world titles
as well. Scotsman Andrew Mitchell, he's won three or four
world titles. Yeah, but looking around the field, there's a
lot of tough comps of competition, especially looking here in
(05:20):
the grass brickness has been real party playing getting done.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
An eighty one year old is a four time world champion.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Yeah, he hasn't played for a few years, but he
has he won at four times in the past.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
That's unreal.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Now, we talked about this last time the camera ridery.
Is it the same feeling at the event this year?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Is what you're saying?
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Last time, he's probably even better. Like it's splits, you
get to know people but more. And then there's a
few of the young fellows that have played on this
year too, so you're catching up with you seeing the
looking at the playing, throwing all he's around, give him
a bit of beau.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Now, as far as the feeling towards New Zealand, over
there in New Zealand, agriculture is such, I mean we're
hearing about door meets of alliance of the likes? Has
that brought up in conversation at all when you're talking
to these people from over the EU Europe.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Play Ye, that hasn't really come up. And coup a
lot of a lot of people coming up and asking
about what the Soul Talk's going to be like in
twenty nine, and he has a bit of a buzz
around for counter in there and they had a lot
of people are really ten to commit to the Zelan
and so we can showcase what's going on.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
So just put it into context.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Twenty twenty nine is going to be held at Riversdale,
the world plowing chams. Logistically, what what are you planning
on as far as the event, I mean, you've been
there often enough now to know what it needs. What's
it going to take to pull it off.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Well, we've got a great committee and I'm pretty confident
we'll pull it off and run a really good event,
says Yeah. Putting the logistics to chieve together, shifting people around,
but the commendation. So we've got the disordered already enders
having good tours and stuff in the good ground. And yeah,
well with the probably the thing over here. The workshop
was lacking a little firstep. We're lucky at the family.
(06:51):
It was really well quick for the marshaling ad was
a bit slow to mark, but they've caught up again now.
So they've got worlders and grinders and stuff here first.
So if we need to do a mortifications or change
any shoes and just just go back to the yard
and get don't do it and get done what you
need to do.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
This might sound a little cliche, Bob, but but do
you get a plowman's lunch for a feed?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
You do? You do? Just get a lunch of us
We breakfast in the mornings and then we hit out.
They get a bit picked lunch and we've got a
camp cheese on the back of the car. So we
pulled them out and heavy, a lunch and a dB
and be out about what we're doing and what we
think here we can make things work better than what
we couldn't.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Hey, awesome, Bob, always appreciate your time. All the best
for the event. We're all backing you. And once again
I am stand at how easily I can talk to
you on the other side of the world, and I
struggle to talk to somebody twenty five meters away from
me here on the main street to go on cell phones.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
But nonetheless, all the best for the next couple of
days a and we've got your back. Enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Awesome things so any much prettier so.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Mark Dylan play I'm an extraordinary over near Prague at
the World Plowing Champs on the fifth and sex of
some timber. So we'll look out for results of this
with eager interest as well. All the best of Ob
over there on his travels and his wife Sonya as well.
Peter Gardin's up next, a bit closer to home. He's
at Nepdale. You're listening to the muster
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