The Muster- Matt McRae: Looking Ahead To A Strong Season

Matt McRae says the red meat sector is looking positive ahead of the peak of the season's prices.

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Speaker 1 (00:11):
A way to make a reader. This afternoon on the
Muster where we catch up with Matt McCrae farming down
that way. Good afternoon, Matte. Blue sky around the south
it's a thing of beauty.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah, good afternoon, India, it sure is. And you what
a treat to get a few days of Iran. So
it's amazing what you can get achieved when they're with
the plays ball.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
You'll be listening to the grassgrow at the moment.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, it's not often that you see covers left when
you got using lemb six stopped and at this time
of the year, so it probably got a bit la
than what we would have liked in the last few months,
but it's certainly making up for a bit of lost
time at the moment.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Long, Matt continue, Well, you kind of expect this for
like the second third or the last third of November
to have a bit of blue sky around because we
haven't seen too much of it all at all. Although
over the season and all of a sudden you get
the blue sky and your mood changes. You're going to
get outside at sparrow farting actually get stuff done.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah, yeah, and it certainly does, and it's yeah, been
good to play a bit of catch up. There's certainly
lots of balls in the air at the time of
the year with trektorwork and crops and tailing and all
sorts going on, so yeah, it's good to be making
some steady progress.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
So you finally got all the tailing tidied up.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, we wrapped up the hogots and lakes last week.
So yeah, their limbs are looking really good and their
numbers are up but again on them this year, so
pretty happy with that. And yeah drinks sure the earlier
lambs through the pin this week too, and yeah that's
amazing when you get the man how they're looking the
air with a week or two of sunshine on their back.

(01:49):
They're changing by the day, which is good to see.
And like I said, a bit of clover coming away
in the grass now too. Things are really starting to
hum along.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
So the lambs are handling pretty good coming through the pin.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah they are, Like obviously the effects of a cold, wet,
slow spring come through the US. Probably didn't milk as
well as they should with the covers getting pretty beer
there for a bit, but yeah they're using milk a fear,
but off their back, and yeah, the limbs are looking
pretty good considering, so yeah, that'll be good. And like

(02:22):
I said, the covers actually lifting away bit the last week,
so yeah, there's a good pack for them there and
hopefully there's a few a good chunk of them ready
to go off them and wining to in a month.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
And so guys, without talking about the wind, you've had
some ridiculous rainfall numbers over the season as well.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, we do probably stop looking at it for the
last couple of weeks. But yeah, we've had a fish
here and he's still got a bit of damage from
the wind obvious. See what's it being so with Underneath
is a few lines and some Philly big trees still
working through cleaning up. So yeah, we'll keep the post
driver the dust off the post driver for a while

(03:00):
toiding up a bit on that. But yeah, it's still
pretty more stir underneath. So the grass is down this
way anyway. The grass is certainly flying.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
As far as the tidy up after the windsor you're
just having to prioritize what you do.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, we have. We went around and pulled out most
of the blue gums and net that had fallen over.
There's a few and planted and shout about some tree
loans that are ripped on fences on both sides. I've
got most of them processed and off the fences and
burn poles now, haw we incident and had before we
got out here a couple of weeks ago with a

(03:37):
pole that would look there's plenty more of plenty more
poles so to burn as well. Yeah, so we've got
them done and there's the macro carpe trees are just
waiting on a logging crew to come back and process
them now. So there's some some good sort of mill
logs out of them, so you get a bit of
timber whereas probably just slashing forward out of the blue gum.

(04:00):
We are making progress, but it's not going to be
a short fixed and be a good six months before
we see the end of it.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
So that's so called and Verticona's incident. It wasn't too bad.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
It wasn't too bad. We did like lost to hay
shed in the corner of a shed in our backyard,
but like in terms of infrastructure, we're pretty good. There's
certainly a lot of others around us. For ourself, yeah,
we're pretty good. And it's just I haven't added up
how many trees or how many clums is are fencing
there is to do, but yeah, it's certainly going to

(04:34):
be achievable when we get through this. Get through this,
whether when get the track to work done in the
next week or so, we'll get back onto the maintenance.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
And that's when we look at the season. Here, we're
looking at prices. The red meat price in general is
looking outstanding across all the sectors. Just intriguing to say
that at the least where the lamb sheet is going
to end up.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, it's it's great, isn't it. Like when you look
back twelve months ago there was a bit of doubt
and where things were heading, and it's amazing what twelve
months can do. So yeah, good to see a bit
of profitability back in the sector and positivity around where
the lamb process going. Obviously a bit of it's going

(05:19):
to be driven by supply and demand. There's not quite
as many out there's what there used to be, so
but yeah, it's good to make a bit of hate
while the sunshines, and yeah, hopefully it continues for the
medium term future and we can inject a bit of
that cash that we're making back into like development and

(05:40):
paying off debt and yeah, things like that which should
be good.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
And we look at the situation with Donald Trump and
these terraffs, which are just an evolving feast. By the day,
we've seen it come off for a beach sector. So
that's a thing of beauty.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah, no, it's great. And it just goes to show
the volatility in the market, isn't it. Like obviously, prices
really good now, but you don't know what they're going
to be in a week's time or a month's time.
We're in lock peak season in February, match and kill
a lot of lambs. Just ye make decisions and or
don't get locked into making decisions too far out and

(06:16):
playing each week as it comes around trading stuff and
I'm trying to mix mores that will turn out of there.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
You could almost replace the volatility of the market with
the volatility of Donald Trump one stroke of your pen
and your gon ski.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah, and they make up such a significant part of
the market now and world trading platform, isn't it. Yeah.
He does unfortunately have a large impact on what we do.
But it's a good thing. That lot the New zeal
On export market's quite diverse forward now too, and I've
probably learned from COVID years around relying on my market. Yeah,

(06:54):
there's certainly a lot of positivity around where things are at,
and yeah, actually drives a bit of confidence and the
sickly going forward because it's been long overdue.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
I'll throw this year to finish, shout. We'll keep it
a bit lighter than your back. So I wouldn't say lighter,
I'd say a bit more of a concern two years
out from the World Cup. Do you trust Razors process? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (07:13):
I do. I do. I'd like to see a bit
more experimentation in some of his selections, but when you
look at it, he has but a lot of young
talent in the last few years. It would just be
nice to see someone in that first five jersey given
the keys, that has a bit of youth and fleece.

(07:34):
He's certainly got the tools there. It's just they're just
messing that clock at the moment, aren't they. Yeah, I'd
like to see probably someone lot Rubin. I've given a
crack this week and a few young fellows out ward.
Just goes to show when you look at the likes
of Fabian Holland and Co. And how much I've grown
this year. There's plenty more players like that that'll come
through and says throw.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, absolutely, Matt. Hey always appreciate your time on the Master.
You can enjoy the sunshine, a shot up cheers an
you two, Matte McCrae of Mockada and joined the Blue
Sky as well as there's red meat prices at the
moment you're listening to the muster on Hakanui. Up next
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Speaker 2 (08:15):
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