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Peter Gardyne says why he thinks he was one of the reasons that the Young Farmers contest was taken off tv!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This interview is brought to you by agri Center South
branches in Lawnville, Gore, Cromwell, Milton and Ranfilly. Drop by
your local agri Center South brunch today. Laffing in the.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Pea Guardine Farms at Napdale and joins us this afternoon
on the Musta on a rather damp afternoon here in
the deep South, Pete.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Good afternoon. Ground conditions out your ways are pretty sticky.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Oh, ground conditions. It's sticky on top, but it's got underneath.
And I'm actually in my heavy place right now. The
kettle and sea for all shifted this morning and we're
now going to eat digger and the loader, and we're
cleaning out the sheepyards and we're about to rip in
and build new sheepyards. So I'm pretty excited about that.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
It's probably one of the first times I've heard of
somebody talking about building a new wallshet cheap yards for
a very very long time.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Well, this will be the third to the sheepyards I've
built from scratch. And I've also got to see the
kettle yards and if you rip the internals out of
old ones and redo them. We extended the roof and
maybe the yards they go, oh three or four years ago.
But we're now getting onto redoing the internals, which we
did half last winter and we're doing the other half
this winter.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
A lot of the timber from the bones of those
old buildings as well, the designed to last until now
it comes again.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
The design to last. This shed here was that sort
of called a Stuart's I don't know if it was
seventies or eighty style, where they decided to run the
race straight into the tin wall and then wonder what
the sheep wouldn't run. And it's been a secondary shed
for us for a while. But yeah, we're getting in
and we're putting a curved race and we'll get it
running nicely. And I can tell you the timber and
(01:43):
all that like it costs a weaver of money, but
what you save in labor and animal stress and all
that going forward is just huge. And I'm a massive
fan of good yards.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Well, if that's not a tick towards the future of
the sheep industry, I don't know what is pete.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Oh yeah, no, the sheep industry is just amazing. It's cranking.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Look at the prices yesterday they got four hundred dollars
a long bull. Everything's pretty buoyant. So yeah, I mean
it wasn't something you heard about. I mean I've heard
of people who actually got rid of their wool sheds
a week the self sheating sheep.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yeah, no, it's interesting there.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
One.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I don't think the sheating sheet's gonna I hope that
wooly sheet come back, but I actually think the shedting
sheet's probably gonna keep going. And why that is is
unless the wall thing really fundamentally shows us some long
term stuff, you know, in the positive direction. The shedding
seat thing, I think in my block is more about
lower cost of production and lower labor units press stock
(02:41):
unit rather than being anti woolf.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
So you're thinking for wall to EGT to have people.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Thinking differently, it's got to go up twice as much,
three times as much as its value at the moment.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Yeah, so we we just sent some wool into town.
So I don't have the results on that yet, but
I have done my anial accounts roughly from last season,
and we've made a small profit on our will account,
which is obviously cool, but when you compare it to
the scale of their business, it doesn't warrant any excitement yet. Yeah, no,
(03:15):
And I think the shedding sheep thing, I think that
I eve it careful because we're having a wee small
play on this front at the moment. The genetics are
not as good as the normal sheep that have been
bred in New Zealand for one hundred and fifty years.
But I think in five years time to ten years time,
it'll be really interesting to see what's out there. I
(03:35):
love wall but I also like cool cars, and I
don't farm cool cars.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I don't think many people.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Do, though, well we all wish we did. But yeah,
I think that will thing's an interesting space and I
don't think it's a done deal either way.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
How's everything on the rage anyway? Just pretty much July
being July?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Yeah, July has been July. Feel a wee bit riffed
off when you go to bed at night a frost
on the deck, and then your wake up and it's
raining in the morning. I like a frosty morning and
less mud. But the window crops have all done pretty well.
The stock team's got the stock looking awesome. That scanned
really well, which is cool. There's probably another thing to
talk about that's interesting with the stud long story short,
(04:21):
we wanted to make the hogits with the ewes to
keep linkages between age groups and time frames at Lemming time,
which I won't bore you on the details. For so,
a couple of years ago we mated hoggits on their
own use on their own and hoggits and use mixed together,
and we had no conception differences between those mating groups.
So this year on the we block up at Pyramid there,
(04:42):
we actually made it their two dooths with their mixed
age us, which is usually considered to be a big
no no, but we had under one percent rise in
that line. So yeah, I think that sort of old
old man's tail or, old farmer's tailor, what do you
want to call it. I think that's actually not as
correct as it may have been in the past.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Interesting as well, the Green Party's policy were touched on
this peat, wanting to get rid of synthetic fertilizers. Yet
the comparison has been made to Sheri Lanka in twenty
twenty one and April twenty one, They're then president abruptly
banned all agrichemical imports to shift to exclusive organic agriculture
and reduce pressure on dwindling foreign exchange reserves. But what
(05:24):
happened was their corrup failure went down by twenty percent
in the first six months. They had to actually import
four hundred and fifty million dollars worth of rice, which
is a staple food. And it got to the point
that with all the protests and everything else, economic decline.
November twenty twenty one, it declined and went back to
the way it was.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Sorry, Well, what I'd say is, I'd say that ninety
nine point nine percent of your listeners are very intelligent
and none of that would surprise them. But unfortunately there
is a small percentage of their population and the high
descent of them are in the Green Party that have
no idea about the realities of life. And I'm not
you know, we're definitely not organic here, and I don't
(06:06):
want to be organic. I respect organic people, but it's
as one organic farmer who I know well told me,
he said, it's like farming's one hand tied behind your back.
It's an intensification and it's a harder way of doing farming,
and on scale Notchgreen News sensibly is just an amazing
(06:27):
tool that I tell you, I don't want to lose
it on this property.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Hey just finally as well, Tom Slieve winning the FMG
Young Farmer of the Year a few days back. Now,
fantastic effort. Now you went to the big dance of
this and you reckon you're responsible for it getting taken
off the telly.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Well a couple of It's awesome that Tom one. He's
a good guy and he's from a great family. Personally,
it's a wee bit scary because I realized that I
competed closer to when his uncle and his father did
than when Tom had, So that makes me feel like
a middle aged farmer. But yeah, I was at the
Grand Final in Gore, and not many people probably know this,
(07:08):
but Gore was the biggest Grand Final they've ever had
by quite a margin, and it was the last time
it was televised on TV. So maybe I had a
face for radio and I scared them all off. Yeah,
but no, that Gore Grand Final, I mean, obviously a
big fan of Gore living ten minutes out of the town,
was well regarded as the biggest and probably one of
(07:31):
the best because a small town like Gore really got
behind it and it was quite an event for the town.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
You're saying twelve hundred people there that night.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
There's thirteen hundred people at the night show and it
was televised live on TV one and I was just
a young twenty two year old, and I tell you
that was probably one of the scariest nights of the life.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Andy Oh, he survived.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
I survived, And I can tell you that the three
months with the Gore Toast Masters lead up to that
made a heck of a lot easier than it would
have been beforehand. But it was quite a difference to
the single man's quarter that I was living on on
farm being in front of that many people, So that's
for me one thing to know. That's I heard Simon
(08:17):
Hotcroft on an interview I think it might have been
on Jamie's show, where he said that it was great
to be there, but he was glad that he didn't
have to do it again. And every Grand finalist will
tell you that it is such a massive undertaking and
it's a it's such a lot of work those guys
put into it, and there's a lot of pressure and
(08:37):
it's something that's hard to describe unless you've done it.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Did you find it terrifying that it takes you a
couple of days to actually realize that why the reasons
for you entering the event.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
I don't think it's terrifying. It's just it's just studying
for a school exam or a university exam, or your
driver's license or something like that. You know what's going
to be in the test. You know, they can only
test you on things that are in the road code
or things that are in your year that you've learned
at school. When at the Young Farmer's Competition, you're rocking
(09:11):
up to something where you have absolutely zero an idea
what they're going to talk about. They could be asking
you about easy fruit or dairy farming, or aquaculture or
sheep or you know. Yeah, for example, one of the
ones I entered and O, I'm a sheep farmer and
I can do most sheep farmer things really well. But
(09:32):
I walked into a sheep scanning module for pregnancy scanning.
And that's one thing that I cannot comprehend. It just
looks like a bunch of bubbles on the screen. And
you know, you walk into a module like that is
a sheep cockey, and you know there's no way up
to do any good at it.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Hey, good on your peat we better leave it there,
enjoy the afternoon. We'll catch up again.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Sounds good and have a good one.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Peg Guarda and farming.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
A neptile and self proclaimed ret the South, became proclaimed
reason that the Young Farm of the Air competition is.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Longer on the no longer on the TV. Nonetheless safe.
We're near twice it really well, Pete up.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Next, we're away to Western Australia to catch up with
Dave busy Biss, formerly a many A Toto, these days
a stock agent over the ditch.
This interview is brought to you by agri Center South
branches in Lawnville, Gore, Cromwell, Milton and Ranfilly. Drop by
your local agri Center South brunch today. Laffing in the.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Pea Guardine Farms at Napdale and joins us this afternoon
on the Musta on a rather damp afternoon here in
the deep South, Pete.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Good afternoon. Ground conditions out your ways are pretty sticky.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Oh, ground conditions. It's sticky on top, but it's got underneath.
And I'm actually in my heavy place right now. The
kettle and sea for all shifted this morning and we're
now going to eat digger and the loader, and we're
cleaning out the sheepyards and we're about to rip in
and build new sheepyards. So I'm pretty excited about that.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
It's probably one of the first times I've heard of
somebody talking about building a new wallshet cheap yards for
a very very long time.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Well, this will be the third to the sheepyards I've
built from scratch. And I've also got to see the
kettle yards and if you rip the internals out of
old ones and redo them. We extended the roof and
maybe the yards they go, oh three or four years ago.
But we're now getting onto redoing the internals, which we
did half last winter and we're doing the other half
this winter.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
A lot of the timber from the bones of those
old buildings as well, the designed to last until now
it comes again.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
The design to last. This shed here was that sort
of called a Stuart's I don't know if it was
seventies or eighty style, where they decided to run the
race straight into the tin wall and then wonder what
the sheep wouldn't run. And it's been a secondary shed
for us for a while. But yeah, we're getting in
and we're putting a curved race and we'll get it
running nicely. And I can tell you the timber and
(01:43):
all that like it costs a weaver of money, but
what you save in labor and animal stress and all
that going forward is just huge. And I'm a massive
fan of good yards.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Well, if that's not a tick towards the future of
the sheep industry, I don't know what is pete.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Oh yeah, no, the sheep industry is just amazing. It's cranking.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Look at the prices yesterday they got four hundred dollars
a long bull. Everything's pretty buoyant. So yeah, I mean
it wasn't something you heard about. I mean I've heard
of people who actually got rid of their wool sheds
a week the self sheating sheep.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yeah, no, it's interesting there.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
One.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I don't think the sheating sheet's gonna I hope that
wooly sheet come back, but I actually think the shedting
sheet's probably gonna keep going. And why that is is
unless the wall thing really fundamentally shows us some long
term stuff, you know, in the positive direction. The shedding
seat thing, I think in my block is more about
lower cost of production and lower labor units press stock
(02:41):
unit rather than being anti woolf.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
So you're thinking for wall to EGT to have people.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Thinking differently, it's got to go up twice as much,
three times as much as its value at the moment.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Yeah, so we we just sent some wool into town.
So I don't have the results on that yet, but
I have done my anial accounts roughly from last season,
and we've made a small profit on our will account,
which is obviously cool, but when you compare it to
the scale of their business, it doesn't warrant any excitement yet. Yeah, no,
(03:15):
And I think the shedding sheep thing, I think that
I eve it careful because we're having a wee small
play on this front at the moment. The genetics are
not as good as the normal sheep that have been
bred in New Zealand for one hundred and fifty years.
But I think in five years time to ten years time,
it'll be really interesting to see what's out there. I
(03:35):
love wall but I also like cool cars, and I
don't farm cool cars.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I don't think many people.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Do, though, well we all wish we did. But yeah,
I think that will thing's an interesting space and I
don't think it's a done deal either way.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
How's everything on the rage anyway? Just pretty much July
being July?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Yeah, July has been July. Feel a wee bit riffed
off when you go to bed at night a frost
on the deck, and then your wake up and it's
raining in the morning. I like a frosty morning and
less mud. But the window crops have all done pretty well.
The stock team's got the stock looking awesome. That scanned
really well, which is cool. There's probably another thing to
talk about that's interesting with the stud long story short,
(04:21):
we wanted to make the hogits with the ewes to
keep linkages between age groups and time frames at Lemming time,
which I won't bore you on the details. For so,
a couple of years ago we mated hoggits on their
own use on their own and hoggits and use mixed together,
and we had no conception differences between those mating groups.
So this year on the we block up at Pyramid there,
(04:42):
we actually made it their two dooths with their mixed
age us, which is usually considered to be a big
no no, but we had under one percent rise in
that line. So yeah, I think that sort of old
old man's tail or, old farmer's tailor, what do you
want to call it. I think that's actually not as
correct as it may have been in the past.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Interesting as well, the Green Party's policy were touched on
this peat, wanting to get rid of synthetic fertilizers. Yet
the comparison has been made to Sheri Lanka in twenty
twenty one and April twenty one, They're then president abruptly
banned all agrichemical imports to shift to exclusive organic agriculture
and reduce pressure on dwindling foreign exchange reserves. But what
(05:24):
happened was their corrup failure went down by twenty percent
in the first six months. They had to actually import
four hundred and fifty million dollars worth of rice, which
is a staple food. And it got to the point
that with all the protests and everything else, economic decline.
November twenty twenty one, it declined and went back to
the way it was.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Sorry, Well, what I'd say is, I'd say that ninety
nine point nine percent of your listeners are very intelligent
and none of that would surprise them. But unfortunately there
is a small percentage of their population and the high
descent of them are in the Green Party that have
no idea about the realities of life. And I'm not
you know, we're definitely not organic here, and I don't
(06:06):
want to be organic. I respect organic people, but it's
as one organic farmer who I know well told me,
he said, it's like farming's one hand tied behind your back.
It's an intensification and it's a harder way of doing farming,
and on scale Notchgreen News sensibly is just an amazing
(06:27):
tool that I tell you, I don't want to lose
it on this property.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Hey just finally as well, Tom Slieve winning the FMG
Young Farmer of the Year a few days back. Now,
fantastic effort. Now you went to the big dance of
this and you reckon you're responsible for it getting taken
off the telly.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Well a couple of It's awesome that Tom one. He's
a good guy and he's from a great family. Personally,
it's a wee bit scary because I realized that I
competed closer to when his uncle and his father did
than when Tom had, So that makes me feel like
a middle aged farmer. But yeah, I was at the
Grand Final in Gore, and not many people probably know this,
(07:08):
but Gore was the biggest Grand Final they've ever had
by quite a margin, and it was the last time
it was televised on TV. So maybe I had a
face for radio and I scared them all off. Yeah,
but no, that Gore Grand Final, I mean, obviously a
big fan of Gore living ten minutes out of the town,
was well regarded as the biggest and probably one of
(07:31):
the best because a small town like Gore really got
behind it and it was quite an event for the town.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
You're saying twelve hundred people there that night.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
There's thirteen hundred people at the night show and it
was televised live on TV one and I was just
a young twenty two year old, and I tell you
that was probably one of the scariest nights of the life.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Andy Oh, he survived.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
I survived, And I can tell you that the three
months with the Gore Toast Masters lead up to that
made a heck of a lot easier than it would
have been beforehand. But it was quite a difference to
the single man's quarter that I was living on on
farm being in front of that many people, So that's
for me one thing to know. That's I heard Simon
(08:17):
Hotcroft on an interview I think it might have been
on Jamie's show, where he said that it was great
to be there, but he was glad that he didn't
have to do it again. And every Grand finalist will
tell you that it is such a massive undertaking and
it's a it's such a lot of work those guys
put into it, and there's a lot of pressure and
(08:37):
it's something that's hard to describe unless you've done it.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Did you find it terrifying that it takes you a
couple of days to actually realize that why the reasons
for you entering the event.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
I don't think it's terrifying. It's just it's just studying
for a school exam or a university exam, or your
driver's license or something like that. You know what's going
to be in the test. You know, they can only
test you on things that are in the road code
or things that are in your year that you've learned
at school. When at the Young Farmer's Competition, you're rocking
(09:11):
up to something where you have absolutely zero an idea
what they're going to talk about. They could be asking
you about easy fruit or dairy farming, or aquaculture or
sheep or you know. Yeah, for example, one of the
ones I entered and O, I'm a sheep farmer and
I can do most sheep farmer things really well. But
(09:32):
I walked into a sheep scanning module for pregnancy scanning.
And that's one thing that I cannot comprehend. It just
looks like a bunch of bubbles on the screen. And
you know, you walk into a module like that is
a sheep cockey, and you know there's no way up
to do any good at it.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Hey, good on your peat we better leave it there,
enjoy the afternoon. We'll catch up again.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Sounds good and have a good one.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Peg Guarda and farming.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
A neptile and self proclaimed ret the South, became proclaimed
reason that the Young Farm of the Air competition is.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Longer on the no longer on the TV. Nonetheless safe.
We're near twice it really well, Pete up.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Next, we're away to Western Australia to catch up with
Dave busy Biss, formerly a many A Toto, these days
a stock agent over the ditch.
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