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Speaker 1 (00:10):
This is the Master on Hokanui as we head down
to Alador and catch up with Steve Henderson Dairy farming
down that way.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Good afternoon, Steve a Daft Punkers the Yardist.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
That song there a lot of people won't be familiar with,
to be perfectly honest, but it was their breakout called
Defunk in nineteen ninety seven and twenty nine years young.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, he was eleven toe tapping at them and what's
that form one in.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
The school discuss college? Yeah, wow, passing behind the pe shed.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
It's a bit of history. Heren't it pretty much?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Mate? Look, how are you faring down there?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
It's been crazy weatherwise around the South.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
How are you going?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I think it has sort of been a winter that
has been winter, but not really type thing. So we've
had one or two frosts, not long long frost they
gone by nine o'clock. But we've sort of had reasonably
mild temperatures with quite a bit of rain and near
this feast to these stuff coming through which these to
these usually a spring or even a late spring, and
(01:11):
you can often get a week of it. But yeah,
we're just we're just we're just wet. No real grind
during the days, but it's winter, but we haven't had
those you know, those real hard both which I'm not
sure for this the selphone's getting but yeah, we're sure
that you can't get.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
In them minus one this morning talking to Phil Duncan
just before.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
We've got a run of them going up, so yes
we hear.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Oh yeah, no, I don't mind them as long as
it doesn't go overcast and makes for a dreary day.
But it sounds trying to pay the city up today
and yeah, well what are we almost? Mid July? Days
are getting you know, progressively longer, and you do notice it.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
So on that was to carving and the birds are
chirping in the background. There's a nice little bit of
ambience you've got for us today.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah, pretty heavy birds must be that sun they've got
them all up so no, no, we do things right
down here and keep the birds in the trees.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
So your swedes this year you have been grass winteringly,
grass wintering previously. Sorry, how are they going?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I suppose, well this time of year and it's been
a but we've probably been pretty good.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Yeah they had been yeah, yeah, were you'd have presumably well,
who were as expected? I should say for their crops,
so they're holding up pretty good. And yeah, although it's
been the utilization of swedes is always quite good. You
could get there the next day and the ol kaos
they've hoovered up all the remaining bulbs and they do
(02:32):
a pretty good job. So no, the swede certainly have
his purpose high in me feed and you will transition
back on the village. But those early calves try and
get that teen to fourteen days. I think there's what
we're trying down for, and they have a calving down.
The best transition is at weekend and here.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
So are you mentally preparing yourself for calving?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah, I think every year you go heat calv is
a busy time of the year. You've got to be
really enjoy these things. But as long as your calfheds
a ready in your cow sheeds really just been run
around or hearing going open the gates at the front,
it's a bit as real as you can be. And
then it sort of just slowly winds into it and
August is actually not the busy month of September we
find the busiest with almost all your replacements on hand,
(03:16):
and you're starting to think about put a third on
peeddicks and all those other jobs around. So I don'n't
mind it unless you know what you're doing. And if
you're not, really you've still got a bit of time
up you leave early August to get those other week
jobs done that you've forgotten about.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
So what's your major focus at the moment there?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I mean, we're still going through the winter cycle, for sure,
but you look at what needs done. You've got your
cheek clist like Center goes through his list two or
three times. I presume Steve O's are same. Just make
sure everything's underway for carving. Here we do.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yet we had to catch up with the team a
couple of weeks ago to see what we want to
have the beck of winter, and there will be no
different to any other Jarry Farmers. Tapegates pair on fences
and calf sheeeds, so we're getting around on truly through
the casheeds. We're putting up. Actually a bit more wind
break at means of seeds this year, just well with
the Easterlys. We're just head and you get those eastilies
(04:08):
in the spring, so a bit of windbreak going up
the chips Inn and probably just going around winding up
reels that have been holding finss up where they don't
need to be. So you know, day with a post
driver and again behind you with some flies and a
bit of wire. You know, makes those jobs a lot easier.
In spring, when you knock down past those gates, you need
to teams to really fixed again. So yep, if we
(04:30):
get to let down by d July, I think we've
done a pretty good Imagine it here, how.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Often do you find a team me?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
But comes and hesy Yanti is saying, I just I've
been doing this day in day out for mans, but
I don't understand. Why do you ever find real or
understand that they're not on the same page as what
you're thinking?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Does that occur often with you?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Nah, We're probably pretty lucky. So I'll get a straight
away while we're doing it, or I don't understand. Yeah,
there's not too many. We'll keep doing it for a
while and then go keep why are we doing this?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
So?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
And I'll often question it too. So I'll start right
at the start, is to you know, what we're trying
to get out of the outcome, and then and then
how it all works and why we're doing it and
then even back to you know the math behind it,
so when that person leaves, they've got a full understanding
of why you're doing it, what conditions scored, the kew
wants to be it, so to speak, and why it's important,
(05:24):
and followed the story through for a couple of minutes
to carving down getting back in card milk production and
the longevity of the care. So as long as they
know the full story, it doesn't have to take ten
years to tell it. But you know, a couple of
minutes to give the whole picture. Yeah, it literally means
a thousand words, but you can probably do it in twenties.
So that's what we're trying to do. And yeah, is
(05:46):
what he knows when they leave.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
So one of the biggest things you find on the
pharm with your team communication how far does it go?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah, so say we're catching up now and we use
a chat. So you will use a resolution chat, which
is really good for just those quick queries or the
old while you're out there. This has popped up, so
you could do that while you're out there type of
thing rather than getting back and going I'm all done
and I go keeping up. Actually have a job that
(06:15):
could have been done so that that check's pretty good.
But also the phone call. You know, I don't spoon
feed anyone, so if they ring and it's a question
that they could answer themselves, you sort of hint that
they can work it out themselves, and they and they will,
then they go, oh that's right, carry on. And then
in spring time where we run our tes because they're
(06:36):
so instant in springtime you need to be whereas the
instant with kels going past the gate or you know,
grabbing that way there.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
So the communications key our ties are a great tool
on the farm.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
We used to have them.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
What's a botted time at a kettle flat, and they're
a fantastic tool just for getting instant.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Messages there as well, especially.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
When the ages of cell phones were in their early
infant were in their early stages.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah, you're right, yeah, yeah, I mean also, you know,
you stuff into your top pocket under two parkers and
your hands are weak and they don't work so good.
But the old I you can grab it and sort
of mumble something and most people understand what you're trying
to say. So yeah, we use them and they work. Yeah,
God's seen especially over those two months and when people
are starting to leave them behind, or you only use
(07:21):
them once or twice a day. We pullp in and
kick them up and go back the cell phones. So yeah,
we've done that for quite a few years and I
don't think we'll change it this year. It seems to work.
And yeah, there's not too much other technology up there
that can be there instant perhaps yelling, but half the
time it's two out of yelling. I wouldn't listen to
some bag of it yell at me, so I wouldn't
listen to it either.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I've always seen that. I'll never forget.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Once upon a time mustering with dead and we're on
two separate ridges and just yelling across at each other.
And we got home that Dan and thought my lungs
were going to a film. A voice box is going
to drop out on my head.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yeah, you can do it to give a great pretension,
but you should be long day. If kids are bloody
good yelling all.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
The time, and the aults are goods are yelling at kids.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I don't have a story for another day.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
It is Steve, Hey, good on your mate, we'll catch
up once again. Enjoy the afternoon and always appreciate your chat.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
To Steve Henderson based at Alo.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
You're listening to the must talking about teen dynamics and
have we got the workshop for you. Up next to
the Beef and Lamb slot, Beef Donderman with a really
cool workshop that is happening in Gore in a couple
of weeks time.
This is the Master on Hokanui as we head down
to Alador and catch up with Steve Henderson Dairy farming
down that way.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Good afternoon, Steve a Daft Punkers the Yardist.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
That song there a lot of people won't be familiar with,
to be perfectly honest, but it was their breakout called
Defunk in nineteen ninety seven and twenty nine years young.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, he was eleven toe tapping at them and what's
that form one in.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
The school discuss college? Yeah, wow, passing behind the pe shed.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
It's a bit of history. Heren't it pretty much?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Mate? Look, how are you faring down there?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
It's been crazy weatherwise around the South.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
How are you going?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I think it has sort of been a winter that
has been winter, but not really type thing. So we've
had one or two frosts, not long long frost they
gone by nine o'clock. But we've sort of had reasonably
mild temperatures with quite a bit of rain and near
this feast to these stuff coming through which these to
these usually a spring or even a late spring, and
(01:11):
you can often get a week of it. But yeah,
we're just we're just we're just wet. No real grind
during the days, but it's winter, but we haven't had
those you know, those real hard both which I'm not
sure for this the selphone's getting but yeah, we're sure
that you can't get.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
In them minus one this morning talking to Phil Duncan
just before.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
We've got a run of them going up, so yes
we hear.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Oh yeah, no, I don't mind them as long as
it doesn't go overcast and makes for a dreary day.
But it sounds trying to pay the city up today
and yeah, well what are we almost? Mid July? Days
are getting you know, progressively longer, and you do notice it.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
So on that was to carving and the birds are
chirping in the background. There's a nice little bit of
ambience you've got for us today.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah, pretty heavy birds must be that sun they've got
them all up so no, no, we do things right
down here and keep the birds in the trees.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
So your swedes this year you have been grass winteringly,
grass wintering previously. Sorry, how are they going?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I suppose, well this time of year and it's been
a but we've probably been pretty good.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Yeah they had been yeah, yeah, were you'd have presumably well,
who were as expected? I should say for their crops,
so they're holding up pretty good. And yeah, although it's
been the utilization of swedes is always quite good. You
could get there the next day and the ol kaos
they've hoovered up all the remaining bulbs and they do
(02:32):
a pretty good job. So no, the swede certainly have
his purpose high in me feed and you will transition
back on the village. But those early calves try and
get that teen to fourteen days. I think there's what
we're trying down for, and they have a calving down.
The best transition is at weekend and here.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
So are you mentally preparing yourself for calving?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah, I think every year you go heat calv is
a busy time of the year. You've got to be
really enjoy these things. But as long as your calfheds
a ready in your cow sheeds really just been run
around or hearing going open the gates at the front,
it's a bit as real as you can be. And
then it sort of just slowly winds into it and
August is actually not the busy month of September we
find the busiest with almost all your replacements on hand,
(03:16):
and you're starting to think about put a third on
peeddicks and all those other jobs around. So I don'n't
mind it unless you know what you're doing. And if
you're not, really you've still got a bit of time
up you leave early August to get those other week
jobs done that you've forgotten about.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
So what's your major focus at the moment there?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I mean, we're still going through the winter cycle, for sure,
but you look at what needs done. You've got your
cheek clist like Center goes through his list two or
three times. I presume Steve O's are same. Just make
sure everything's underway for carving. Here we do.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yet we had to catch up with the team a
couple of weeks ago to see what we want to
have the beck of winter, and there will be no
different to any other Jarry Farmers. Tapegates pair on fences
and calf sheeeds, so we're getting around on truly through
the casheeds. We're putting up. Actually a bit more wind
break at means of seeds this year, just well with
the Easterlys. We're just head and you get those eastilies
(04:08):
in the spring, so a bit of windbreak going up
the chips Inn and probably just going around winding up
reels that have been holding finss up where they don't
need to be. So you know, day with a post
driver and again behind you with some flies and a
bit of wire. You know, makes those jobs a lot easier.
In spring, when you knock down past those gates, you need
to teams to really fixed again. So yep, if we
(04:30):
get to let down by d July, I think we've
done a pretty good Imagine it here, how.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Often do you find a team me?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
But comes and hesy Yanti is saying, I just I've
been doing this day in day out for mans, but
I don't understand. Why do you ever find real or
understand that they're not on the same page as what
you're thinking?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Does that occur often with you?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Nah, We're probably pretty lucky. So I'll get a straight
away while we're doing it, or I don't understand. Yeah,
there's not too many. We'll keep doing it for a
while and then go keep why are we doing this?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
So?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
And I'll often question it too. So I'll start right
at the start, is to you know, what we're trying
to get out of the outcome, and then and then
how it all works and why we're doing it and
then even back to you know the math behind it,
so when that person leaves, they've got a full understanding
of why you're doing it, what conditions scored, the kew
wants to be it, so to speak, and why it's important,
(05:24):
and followed the story through for a couple of minutes
to carving down getting back in card milk production and
the longevity of the care. So as long as they
know the full story, it doesn't have to take ten
years to tell it. But you know, a couple of
minutes to give the whole picture. Yeah, it literally means
a thousand words, but you can probably do it in twenties.
So that's what we're trying to do. And yeah, is
(05:46):
what he knows when they leave.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
So one of the biggest things you find on the
pharm with your team communication how far does it go?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah, so say we're catching up now and we use
a chat. So you will use a resolution chat, which
is really good for just those quick queries or the
old while you're out there. This has popped up, so
you could do that while you're out there type of
thing rather than getting back and going I'm all done
and I go keeping up. Actually have a job that
(06:15):
could have been done so that that check's pretty good.
But also the phone call. You know, I don't spoon
feed anyone, so if they ring and it's a question
that they could answer themselves, you sort of hint that
they can work it out themselves, and they and they will,
then they go, oh that's right, carry on. And then
in spring time where we run our tes because they're
(06:36):
so instant in springtime you need to be whereas the
instant with kels going past the gate or you know,
grabbing that way there.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
So the communications key our ties are a great tool
on the farm.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
We used to have them.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
What's a botted time at a kettle flat, and they're
a fantastic tool just for getting instant.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Messages there as well, especially.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
When the ages of cell phones were in their early
infant were in their early stages.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah, you're right, yeah, yeah, I mean also, you know,
you stuff into your top pocket under two parkers and
your hands are weak and they don't work so good.
But the old I you can grab it and sort
of mumble something and most people understand what you're trying
to say. So yeah, we use them and they work. Yeah,
God's seen especially over those two months and when people
are starting to leave them behind, or you only use
(07:21):
them once or twice a day. We pullp in and
kick them up and go back the cell phones. So yeah,
we've done that for quite a few years and I
don't think we'll change it this year. It seems to work.
And yeah, there's not too much other technology up there
that can be there instant perhaps yelling, but half the
time it's two out of yelling. I wouldn't listen to
some bag of it yell at me, so I wouldn't
listen to it either.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I've always seen that. I'll never forget.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Once upon a time mustering with dead and we're on
two separate ridges and just yelling across at each other.
And we got home that Dan and thought my lungs
were going to a film. A voice box is going
to drop out on my head.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yeah, you can do it to give a great pretension,
but you should be long day. If kids are bloody
good yelling all.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
The time, and the aults are goods are yelling at kids.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I don't have a story for another day.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
It is Steve, Hey, good on your mate, we'll catch
up once again. Enjoy the afternoon and always appreciate your chat.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
To Steve Henderson based at Alo.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
You're listening to the must talking about teen dynamics and
have we got the workshop for you. Up next to
the Beef and Lamb slot, Beef Donderman with a really
cool workshop that is happening in Gore in a couple
of weeks time.
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