May 14, 2026 • 7 mins
Michelle looks at another positive sale for the wool sector recently which sees the fibre slowly coming up in price.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Michelle Wae joins us for the country crossover. Good afternoon,
Michelle van Halen.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I love van Halen. That song just makes me so happy.
And the glam rock days, I wish they would come back,
the best days of.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Rocky van Halen, my old teutor and Wellington, told the
story about he was driving around his old Toelstar one
day he just interviewed Eddie van Halen and he asked
me could go for a tour around Wellington And.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
So he goes, yeah, I got to take Eddie van Halen.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I took Eddie van Halen around Wellington for ninety minutes
on the Telstar.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
That would have been an experience. And those guys, I
love that band to be honest. I said, eighties glam rock.
You can't really go wrong those days. You know where
they used to dress up and the whole thing was
very flambuoyant and they had personality by thinking of Cass
as well with the makeup and stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Motley krap do that, Yeah, Motley krup.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Man stories to tell, haven't they.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
There's a lot of stories that have you watched that
show on I think it was on Netflix about the
sort of like a drama.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Doctor now the deress. No, I haven't.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
No, it's very very good. I'd recommend it, very well done.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Very big positive.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Starting straight off, Graham Butcher emailed me this morning for
a scene to make to say, have you seen this
wall sailed from yesterday?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
And I have seen this sale. This is just great
news as well.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Up thirty eight percent thirty eight cents sorry, one hundred
percent selling rate and basically the wall price now is
getting into the six backs for clean This is great.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Oh, it's amazing news, isn't it very positive news for
war after what's been quite a few tough years. I
think I don't want to try and guess how many
years it's been.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I'd say decades.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
It's been a long time, and it's nice to see
some positives out there. It'll be interesting to find out
what's driving this demand, and you and I will go
across some reasons about maybe it's les sheep in the world.
So therefore, you know, obviously supply demand. I didn't study economics,
but that's basically one of the basic things, isn't it
supply versus demand and who's actually buying it and why?
(02:04):
Because it's really interesting that that price is shot up,
but hey, we'll take it.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
It's a positive.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Well, you think about China coming back into the equation
a bit more of this free trade agreement with India
may have had something to do with it, but a lock.
If it's all about the positives for the industry, then
we just claim it.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Absolutely, you've just got to ride that positive way. Well,
it lasts, right, and there's so many cool inventions coming
out with war as well. I was reading the other
day that a company has launched the world's first wall
based color for three D printing filament, And of course
there's lots of other really cool things, bandages, all sorts
of stuff that's coming out of strong wool and marino
wall out there, so natural products. I think people are
(02:38):
turning back and towards sustainability and being able to have
that old world feeling. In fact, I was reading an
article the other day about how gen z typically now
want to go back to an easier time, some of them,
and you talk to some of those young con generation
and that's what they speak about. And I think part
of that too is having sustainable clothing and going back
to what lasts and what wash is up well and
(03:00):
what is natural.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
The biggest irony I'm finding at the moment what people
were wearing in nineteen ninety one is being hip. Is
exactly what they're wearing in twenty twenty six, new balancers,
barkers and a wooly jersey.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Oh absolutely, I wasn't allowed barkers. They're very expensive. I
don't know how they how much they are now I do,
but I know when I was at school there are
like forty dollars track pants, which doesn't sound that expensive,
but they were for track pants back then, when you
used to buy your track pants from Helen Stein's for
I don't know, ten bucks a pear, forty dollars per
of track pants to ride the horse and as if
going a little bit far, but yeah, it's interesting talking
(03:35):
to the younger generation here about how cool they think
the nineties were and the clothing that we had. And
we did have some cool clothing. I've probably got some
of it still hanging up somewhere.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Well, the track pants you wore from Helenstein's air pistale
if you weren't able to afford Barkers and loge boots
for all the big rage anyway, like you could have
that basketball boots were just the normal ones.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Oh jeez, you think.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Back there, it's a hard case here and of course
we're in the Uglees and you had the jumper over
the top and you had the collar up. Oh.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I used to have the ugly Canterbury shorts as well
as the top sandy.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I was super super cool.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
But talking about going back in time, the close of
the rugby club, of course, celebrating one hundred and fifty years.
I think this weekend it's really exciting, massive for the club.
And of course I've had a fair bit to do
with rugby down in South Tigo over my time, with
my brother playing for many years. My dad was a
manager of the colts team for a couple of years
as well, more than probably a couple of years, and
of course I've played for Katungata so had quite a
(04:31):
bit to do with the rugby clubs.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Back in the day.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
And it's something that it sounds like carbon farming might
be affecting around rural areas because some of those smaller
clubs like Awaka and Clinton are sort of struggling for
members and they think it's down to that carbon farming
type thing and people not living in the rural areas anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
There's been a number of reasons as to why this
is occurring. And I mean it's a different era now,
a different generation with a lot more options on the
table as as to what they want to do on
the weekends.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Absolutely, there's so many choices for sport now. But you know,
the old rugby club going down. You'll be like me
and you go down to the rugby club at two
o'clock to watch the b's game usually, and in the
prems game would be on after that and everyone would
go into the club afterwards. Some of our club games
that we had, we had like our I guess sister
clubs we called them when I was playing for the
women's teams, and we'd put on big meals each time
(05:22):
we played either of those and it was just a
great atmosphere to meet people, have fun and just have
a really good time and socialize.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Speaking of rugby, the Highlanders against the Chiefs, can they
do it?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Oh, that's a big question and it would be a
big upset for the Chiefs, wouldn't it. Not so much
for the Highlanders because I think they're pretty much done,
aren't they.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
But you never know who the.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Highlanders they might beat the Chiefs. The Chiefs might underestimate
them and this might be the game. Be nice to
see them have a win on the board, wouldn't it.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Well, they've got to win last week, Yeah, there was
a diet.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Second half was a hard watch.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
It was, especially when you saw the score in the
first half and you thought, oh yeah, and then it just.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
It seems to have been the tale of this season.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
I think so far these games it's pretty much followed
the same pattern. But you never know what the Chiefs,
You just never know what the Holanders. They could pull
one out of the hat.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
But you speak of Jamie McKay, a finalist in the
Pins Awards.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
He is.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
He's a finalist in the agg Communicator of the Year
alongside Dom George, who you may remember previously was a
producer for Jamie so the Apprentice as Jamie Fonley calls him,
and Hamish Marsh of course yeah, was in the Trade Envoy,
Special Trade Envoy and agg Arable Farmer from up in Canterbury.
So it could be really tight competition. It's going to
(06:36):
be a fun night up There's some amazing speakers going
along to this conference as well, so I'm really looking
forward to it.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
When is it.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Twenty third, twenty fourth of Jones after field days?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Well you enjoy that, Hey, we'll carry on, Michelle, Enjoy
the weekend.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Go the Landers, Go the Landers.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
For chow and the country crossover. This is the muster
on Hockinew. You were away to Brisbane. Next news talks
have sports Jason Pines over there for Measure Crown, so
we'll talk about a cope head of the weekend.
Michelle Wae joins us for the country crossover. Good afternoon,
Michelle van Halen.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I love van Halen. That song just makes me so happy.
And the glam rock days, I wish they would come back,
the best days of.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Rocky van Halen, my old teutor and Wellington, told the
story about he was driving around his old Toelstar one
day he just interviewed Eddie van Halen and he asked
me could go for a tour around Wellington And.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
So he goes, yeah, I got to take Eddie van Halen.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I took Eddie van Halen around Wellington for ninety minutes
on the Telstar.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
That would have been an experience. And those guys, I
love that band to be honest. I said, eighties glam rock.
You can't really go wrong those days. You know where
they used to dress up and the whole thing was
very flambuoyant and they had personality by thinking of Cass
as well with the makeup and stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Motley krap do that, Yeah, Motley krup.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Man stories to tell, haven't they.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
There's a lot of stories that have you watched that
show on I think it was on Netflix about the
sort of like a drama.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Doctor now the deress. No, I haven't.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
No, it's very very good. I'd recommend it, very well done.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Very big positive.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Starting straight off, Graham Butcher emailed me this morning for
a scene to make to say, have you seen this
wall sailed from yesterday?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
And I have seen this sale. This is just great
news as well.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Up thirty eight percent thirty eight cents sorry, one hundred
percent selling rate and basically the wall price now is
getting into the six backs for clean This is great.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Oh, it's amazing news, isn't it very positive news for
war after what's been quite a few tough years. I
think I don't want to try and guess how many
years it's been.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I'd say decades.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
It's been a long time, and it's nice to see
some positives out there. It'll be interesting to find out
what's driving this demand, and you and I will go
across some reasons about maybe it's les sheep in the world.
So therefore, you know, obviously supply demand. I didn't study economics,
but that's basically one of the basic things, isn't it
supply versus demand and who's actually buying it and why?
(02:04):
Because it's really interesting that that price is shot up,
but hey, we'll take it.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
It's a positive.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Well, you think about China coming back into the equation
a bit more of this free trade agreement with India
may have had something to do with it, but a lock.
If it's all about the positives for the industry, then
we just claim it.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Absolutely, you've just got to ride that positive way. Well,
it lasts, right, and there's so many cool inventions coming
out with war as well. I was reading the other
day that a company has launched the world's first wall
based color for three D printing filament, And of course
there's lots of other really cool things, bandages, all sorts
of stuff that's coming out of strong wool and marino
wall out there, so natural products. I think people are
(02:38):
turning back and towards sustainability and being able to have
that old world feeling. In fact, I was reading an
article the other day about how gen z typically now
want to go back to an easier time, some of them,
and you talk to some of those young con generation
and that's what they speak about. And I think part
of that too is having sustainable clothing and going back
to what lasts and what wash is up well and
(03:00):
what is natural.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
The biggest irony I'm finding at the moment what people
were wearing in nineteen ninety one is being hip. Is
exactly what they're wearing in twenty twenty six, new balancers,
barkers and a wooly jersey.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Oh absolutely, I wasn't allowed barkers. They're very expensive. I
don't know how they how much they are now I do,
but I know when I was at school there are
like forty dollars track pants, which doesn't sound that expensive,
but they were for track pants back then, when you
used to buy your track pants from Helen Stein's for
I don't know, ten bucks a pear, forty dollars per
of track pants to ride the horse and as if
going a little bit far, but yeah, it's interesting talking
(03:35):
to the younger generation here about how cool they think
the nineties were and the clothing that we had. And
we did have some cool clothing. I've probably got some
of it still hanging up somewhere.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Well, the track pants you wore from Helenstein's air pistale
if you weren't able to afford Barkers and loge boots
for all the big rage anyway, like you could have
that basketball boots were just the normal ones.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Oh jeez, you think.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Back there, it's a hard case here and of course
we're in the Uglees and you had the jumper over
the top and you had the collar up. Oh.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I used to have the ugly Canterbury shorts as well
as the top sandy.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I was super super cool.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
But talking about going back in time, the close of
the rugby club, of course, celebrating one hundred and fifty years.
I think this weekend it's really exciting, massive for the club.
And of course I've had a fair bit to do
with rugby down in South Tigo over my time, with
my brother playing for many years. My dad was a
manager of the colts team for a couple of years
as well, more than probably a couple of years, and
of course I've played for Katungata so had quite a
(04:31):
bit to do with the rugby clubs.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Back in the day.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
And it's something that it sounds like carbon farming might
be affecting around rural areas because some of those smaller
clubs like Awaka and Clinton are sort of struggling for
members and they think it's down to that carbon farming
type thing and people not living in the rural areas anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
There's been a number of reasons as to why this
is occurring. And I mean it's a different era now,
a different generation with a lot more options on the
table as as to what they want to do on
the weekends.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Absolutely, there's so many choices for sport now. But you know,
the old rugby club going down. You'll be like me
and you go down to the rugby club at two
o'clock to watch the b's game usually, and in the
prems game would be on after that and everyone would
go into the club afterwards. Some of our club games
that we had, we had like our I guess sister
clubs we called them when I was playing for the
women's teams, and we'd put on big meals each time
(05:22):
we played either of those and it was just a
great atmosphere to meet people, have fun and just have
a really good time and socialize.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Speaking of rugby, the Highlanders against the Chiefs, can they
do it?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Oh, that's a big question and it would be a
big upset for the Chiefs, wouldn't it. Not so much
for the Highlanders because I think they're pretty much done,
aren't they.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
But you never know who the.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Highlanders they might beat the Chiefs. The Chiefs might underestimate
them and this might be the game. Be nice to
see them have a win on the board, wouldn't it.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Well, they've got to win last week, Yeah, there was
a diet.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Second half was a hard watch.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
It was, especially when you saw the score in the
first half and you thought, oh yeah, and then it just.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
It seems to have been the tale of this season.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
I think so far these games it's pretty much followed
the same pattern. But you never know what the Chiefs,
You just never know what the Holanders. They could pull
one out of the hat.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
But you speak of Jamie McKay, a finalist in the
Pins Awards.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
He is.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
He's a finalist in the agg Communicator of the Year
alongside Dom George, who you may remember previously was a
producer for Jamie so the Apprentice as Jamie Fonley calls him,
and Hamish Marsh of course yeah, was in the Trade Envoy,
Special Trade Envoy and agg Arable Farmer from up in Canterbury.
So it could be really tight competition. It's going to
(06:36):
be a fun night up There's some amazing speakers going
along to this conference as well, so I'm really looking
forward to it.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
When is it.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Twenty third, twenty fourth of Jones after field days?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Well you enjoy that, Hey, we'll carry on, Michelle, Enjoy
the weekend.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Go the Landers, Go the Landers.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
For chow and the country crossover. This is the muster
on Hockinew. You were away to Brisbane. Next news talks
have sports Jason Pines over there for Measure Crown, so
we'll talk about a cope head of the weekend.
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