The Muster- Matt McRae

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're heading down to Margarita to catch up with Matt McCrae.
Sheep and beef summer and got the bay Watch theme
song as we go through a theme of epic TV
themes of use to year and talking off. Yeah, Matt,
not much correlation with Baywatch and shifting stock today down

(00:20):
to Macarita.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah, and love, there's not much of a correlation at all.
Today we gentle fifteen minus are and overnight we're bit
sticky on the foot. But it's been pretty comm to
us so far. So that winter turns up in winter
and you know that we'll get a bit more of it.
But yeah, certainly dreaming of being that on a boat
would be quite good on day spots today turning around

(00:44):
in the mud.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Oh, well, as you say them, want to get past
the shortest day. Summer is a little bit closer, so
you're nearly there.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, can I tuck around pretty quickly so if we
haven't skied anything yet, but we'll get onto that next week,
get through the studs and a few early uths, so
it'll be interesting to see where they sit. But yeah,
another year alter and pretty quick, doesn't it.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
It does?

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Indeed, and over winter feeling starting scanning and that done.
Isn't it just odd jobs? And have you got some
stuff to clean up from those storms l last year?

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, yeah, we're slowly getting on top of that. There's
always a bit of fencing and that kitch up on
a few other jobs. But yeah, just in one to mode.
We've got kews on grazing at the moment, and if
you are the mobs of young stock ons, we'll get
through scanning in the next week at fortnight and and
put their use on for a month as well. I'll

(01:40):
get well, usually all grass wanted, but tiling them up
on a bit of regrowth triff. At the moment, I've
learned what a lit senses and yeah, see how they
go on that. But I was in a bit of
the date at the moments. It's been nice to just
been a couple of weeks at home for a change.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Some good news out there for sheet family is at
the moment all prices are continuing to climb, and are
those crossbreed fleeces like risen by eight to eleven percent
and some of those average fleeces now reaching around seven
dollars forty kilogram, So we're heading in the right direction,
aren't we.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
It's good to see, isn't it. Yeah, any list broke
even has been well received one certainly in their industry,
So good to see while pulling its weight away. But
hopefully there's a bit of room to keep checking on
up and hopefully it's sustainable. But I just caught up
with my mum was down for a couple of days

(02:37):
earlier in the way, and we were just talking like
one was probably back to the level now what it
was thirty years ago. If ye put inflationary pressures on that,
we probably need to still double to be in today's
terms what they were getting and they were at stage
in their career.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Definitely.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, throw the challenge out to the industry leaders. It's
certainly got talking about a positive news story, but yeah,
it'd be great to keep the screws on them and
try and extract as much eailier as we can out
of it.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yeah, this is only the start line, not the finish
and we hope that maybe the announcement that Tom McClay
and Mark Patterson had at Field Days last week, the
boosting those returns and the Primary Accepted Growth Fund contributing
eight million to the twenty million dollar project lead by
wall source, and that is meant to help scale up

(03:26):
some of those productions of wild drive particles, powders, pigments
and the likes and potentially turn some of our wall
into three D printing materials, personal care and textiles, which
is just taking that wall to a whole new level
other outside carpets and garments.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, that's some pretty cool technology, isn't it Good to
see the industry looking for those alternate sources and ways
to make it more profitable. But alike, from a non
farm level, we've just done away bit of sharing on
one of the blocks of last rags, keeping quality, quality
of flats and doing the things. I'm farmed when those

(04:06):
yeah people do pay premiums for that high prostried wall,
and yeah, making sure we keep it on. I've always
been a believer of the lock air shape of ben
a drill income source with the wall and the mets
just one absolute bringing in behind. So it's good to
see that's under pull of it more.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
And overall across the red meat sector, things are pretty
positive at the moment, like everything is kind of up
in the in their highs, and there was a report
put out a couple of weeks ago, commissioned by the
Meat Industry Association and Beef and Land New Zealand, and
sixty four million dollars per day of direct spending heading
in to from agriculture, financial services, that road transport, et cetera.

(04:50):
That relates back to the red meat sector and that's
got a real big flow on effect to ensuring that
we have these great communities that we're living and working in. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Absolutely, it's good to put some numbers around. I guess
it's a bone of the rural communities, isn't it, and
in shaping basins scrung an increasingly big part of that
with a bit of extra return slang and now, but
it's it's all the jobs that come along with it,
as the report highlights. But yeah, it's it's good to say,

(05:24):
and there's still a bit of potential in it and
it yet. But I guess it reinforces some of the
messaging around when you go so highly born governments and
councils and things like that, that we've got a bit
more sway than what they perhaps give us credit for
at times. So it's good to see few of them
acknowledging it in the last week or two.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah, still New Zealand's second largest goods exporters, so real,
huge contributor to the overall economy found there. Met you've
got staff as well, you in regards to employment stuff,
how things look in that front for you guys.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
No, we do have staff oversely and obor and property
as well, so we've got a few members between here
and there. But and yeah, we've been very fortunate with
the stuff that we've got on been probably six years
ago I ported for us stuff and growing up to
through Corser. Have been very lucky, like you say, im

(06:19):
ploying good people and have managed to retain retained them
pretty well. Had a guy that's been with us for
six years retire this year after being on the property
for over thirty years. And yeah, but it's pretty easy
when you've got us live in a good community and

(06:40):
as long as you've recorded a good role in paywell
and they seem to love it here, which is good.
So very lucky. But it's also a huge learning curve
for people in the industry because traditionally she becomes, especially
in this area, haven't been big enough to employ people.
So it's definitely a learned that.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Oh no, well, it sounds like there's plenty to keep
you busy at the Marcarita. Matt, thank you very much
for having a chat with us, and all the best
for the rest of winter. Oh cheers. That's Matt McCrae
down at the at Macarena.