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The Muster Full Show: 02/10/26 · The Muster on Hokonui

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Speaker 1: Friday afternoon, so once again we catch up with Nathan
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Speaker 1: Abernethy of Regional Ford. How are you going, Nathan?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, good, Andy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, a wee bit dreary out there today, isn't it?
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Speaker 3: A wee bit of rain falling, but hopefully this is
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Speaker 3: the last of it for a while. I believe the
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Speaker 3: forecast is looking OK for the weekend and perhaps next week,
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Speaker 3: which will be very, very welcome. But look, it's new.
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Speaker 4: Month, isn't it?
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Speaker 3: And we're into it again. Last month went really, really well,
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Speaker 3: so let's do it all again. We've got a wee
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Speaker 3: bit of a project happening here at the moment across
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Speaker 3: the road. We've taken over the buildings. directly across from
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Speaker 3: us and we've of course got the yard beside it
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Speaker 3: and we're just opening it up at the moment to
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Speaker 3: put a new yard over there as well so that's
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Speaker 3: exciting so watch this space over the next while but
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Speaker 3: look Friday afternoon teams on deck and it's always a
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Speaker 3: busy day on a Friday where we sort of have
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Speaker 3: a lot of vehicles ready for delivery and today is
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Speaker 3: no exception lots of new vehicles going out lots of
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Speaker 3: used vehicles coming in and we've had a couple of
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Speaker 3: beauties come in so just on Wednesday we've had a
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Speaker 3: real ripper come in this is a one owner 2023
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Speaker 3: Ford Ranger Platinum So platinum is the top of the line.
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Speaker 3: We haven't always had a platinum, whereas the Wildtrak was
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Speaker 3: once upon a time the top of the line. We
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Speaker 3: do have a platinum now. Now the platinum Ranger comes
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Speaker 3: on 20-inch alloy wheels standard, really, really nice leather seats.
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Speaker 3: Of course, Wildtrak has leather as well, but these are
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Speaker 3: just a bit upgraded. They are heated. They're also cooled.
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Speaker 3: They have heated steering wheel. They've got the electric lid
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Speaker 3: on the back with different roof racks and different things. Really,
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Speaker 3: really nice truck. A new one of these retail at
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Speaker 3: $ 94, 000 on the road.
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Speaker 4: That's retail.
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Speaker 3: With your discounts in bits and pieces, you're usually about.
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Speaker 4: $ 85, 000.
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Speaker 3: This truck here is $ 59, 990, including GST. It is brand new.
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Speaker 3: It's travelled 46,000 k's. It still has a couple of
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Speaker 3: years of its new vehicle warranty on it, and it's
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Speaker 3: in a colour called Equinox Bronze, which is a metallic
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Speaker 3: sort of chestnut brown, which is really quite different, and
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Speaker 3: it looks really, really good. So $ 59, 990 including GST, 3-litre
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Speaker 3: V6 diesel, beautiful truck. As well as that, we've got
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Speaker 3: a 2021 Ford Ranger XLT that's just come in on
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Speaker 3: the guard today. It's blue, it's got canopy, it's got
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Speaker 3: 20-inch wheels. Sorry, no, it's got 18-inch wheels, all-terrain tyres,
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Speaker 3: really nice. Again, just one owner, travelled just over 100,000
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Speaker 3: km for $ 35, 990. That is a great truck as well.
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Speaker 3: No shortage of SUVs out the front. Everest, plenty of those.
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Speaker 3: So come in and see us. As always, teams on
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Speaker 3: deck here until after 5 o'clock. Doors will be open
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Speaker 3: past 9 tomorrow. Guys in the workshop are really busy.
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Speaker 3: If there's anything we can help out there, don't be
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Speaker 3: afraid to give.
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Speaker 5: Us a call.
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Speaker 3: Parts department, we can get parts for all makes and
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Speaker 3: models as well. And not to forget the guys up
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Speaker 3: there in Belclutha with the Bridgestone tyres as well. So, yeah,
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Speaker 3: everybody have a great weekend and a happy Friday.
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Speaker 1: Go on, you know, see you next week.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Andy.
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Speaker 1: Good afternoon and welcome to the muster on Hakanui. Andy
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Speaker 1: Muir here and the show is brought to you by
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Speaker 1: Peter's Genetics. On a Friday, which sees a bit of
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Speaker 1: rain falling in the south, but good news. The next
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Speaker 1: seven days, all things considered, is looking pretty good. Phil
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Speaker 1: Duncan of Weather Watch will fill us in around the
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Speaker 1: weather for the south for the next seven days. Shortly
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Speaker 1: on the muster, but we'll get straight on to it
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Speaker 1: this afternoon. Pearl Jam is the music. Eddie Vedder, a
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Speaker 1: legend of his time.
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Speaker 6: And this afternoon there's a bit of rain around with
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Speaker 6: breezy westerlies and a high of 17.
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Speaker 1: Saturday, cloudy with light sail westerlies, 0 and 12. Sunday,
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Speaker 1: sunshine with light sail westerlies, 3 and 16. Monday, partly
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Speaker 1: cloudy with calm variable winds, 4 and 18. And Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: the jewel in the crown, sunshine with breezy northerlies, 10
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Speaker 1: and 20. So temperatures to hand, Heriot skews me at 9.2,
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Speaker 1: Northern South on 9.8, Riverton 11.2, Te Anau 10.1, Titiroa 11.1.
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Speaker 1: Winton 10.3 and Woodlands 9.8. Jamie Mackay, host of The Country,
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Speaker 1: joins us in the Country Crossover. Phil Dungan of Weather
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Speaker 1: Watch looking at the forecast and Phil saying in an
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Speaker 1: earlier text that there are happier signs on the horizon,
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Speaker 1: especially over the next seven days down here. Morgan Green
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Speaker 1: of NSVETS looking at the current situation. Steve Henderson farms
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Speaker 1: down at Awarua and joins us as well to give
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Speaker 1: us an update on conditions down there towards Bluff. And finally,
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Speaker 1: Jason Pine at a Newstalk ZB Talks board ahead of
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Speaker 1: the weekend. The Wellington Lions. They won the competition two
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Speaker 1: years ago. This year, they've got to finish bottom of
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Speaker 1: the MPC. What has gone on there? So we'll start
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Speaker 1: the hour next with Pearl Jam. This is the muster
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Speaker 1: and it's brought to you by Peters Genetics.
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Speaker 1: Jamie Mackay, host of The Country, joins us for The
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Speaker 1: Country Crossover. Thanks to Bioactive Soils. Good afternoon, Jamie. It's
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Speaker 1: been a busy old week.
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Speaker 7: It has been a busy old week, as they say
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Speaker 7: on another high-rating rural show that no one watches. Yes,
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Speaker 7: it has been a busy old week, and thank goodness...
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Speaker 7: Thank goodness, Andy, and I hope I'm not giving Southland
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Speaker 7: and southwest Otago farmers the kiss of death.
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Speaker 8: The weather looks like it's changed for the better.
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Speaker 1: Now, the government's declared a medium adverse scale event for
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Speaker 1: the South. So what this means is money is released
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Speaker 1: for the Rural Support Trust and the likes to do
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Speaker 1: a few more of these events they've been doing. They've
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Speaker 1: called it the brunch on us. Beef and Lamb's running
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Speaker 1: events as well, Jamie. It's about trying to get people
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Speaker 1: off farm, even if it's just for an hour or so,
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Speaker 1: to get out of the grind, go and have a coffee,
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Speaker 1: have a burger and have a yum with a few
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Speaker 1: people because you need to go and you need to
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Speaker 1: get a bit of a break every now and then.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, and not only support for the Rural Support Trust, Andy,
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Speaker 7: I haven't got it sitting in front of me, but
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Speaker 7: off the top of my head, there's also a bit
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Speaker 7: of tax relief if you're having issues with your tax payments.
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Speaker 7: And the other thing is if you are financially battling away,
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Speaker 7: there is some community services help or whatever. So it's
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Speaker 7: just opening up some channels of help. And I agree
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Speaker 7: with you. Now, we're into October now, Andy. For most
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Speaker 7: sheep farmers, that signals the end of lambing and the
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Speaker 7: dairy farmers are through calving. And while September was, or
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Speaker 7: shit-tember as I call it, has been a side of
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Speaker 7: a month, I think farmers can take an hour or
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Speaker 7: two off the farm in October, easier than September, and
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Speaker 7: I really hope they do. And today's Friday, and, you know,
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Speaker 7: if you like a beer, as we said, I think,
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Speaker 7: last week or the week before, go and pop to
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Speaker 7: your local pub or your rugby club or whatever's going
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Speaker 7: on in your community. It might be your local church
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Speaker 7: on Sunday, but just a mix of and mingle, and
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Speaker 7: obviously everyone's been in the same boat, so problem shared
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Speaker 7: is a problem half. I know that's banging on with
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Speaker 7: old advice, but it really works.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Southland Rural Support Trust's number as well, 0800 787 254.
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Speaker 1: Talk to Katrina and the co there. There's always somebody
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Speaker 1: at the end of the line. That's the important thing
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Speaker 1: there as well.
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Speaker 9: Yep.
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Speaker 7: Rural Support Trust have done a fantastic job. And a
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Speaker 7: shout out, and I haven't been down on the ground
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Speaker 7: in Southland, Andy, but I'm hearing, you know, local transports
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Speaker 7: and all that are doing their things. They're putting on a,
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Speaker 7: you know, and I had a text from a farmer.
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Speaker 7: I think it was Awarua Lime or someone like that
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Speaker 7: putting on a, I may have got the company wrong.
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Speaker 8: Sorry, Andy, but a kai.
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Speaker 1: AB Lime. Probably AB Lime.
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Speaker 8: AB Lime, yeah, thank you very much.
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Speaker 7: AB Lime putting on a coffee and a pie for
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Speaker 7: farmers and it's all good stuff. And the service community,
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Speaker 7: the rural service community has really come into their own.
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Speaker 7: They're obviously very dependent on farmers, but it's good to
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Speaker 7: see them. dipping into their own pockets effectively and doing
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Speaker 7: this to help out their clients.
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Speaker 8: I think it's really good. It's good for community spirit.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Beef and Lamb Spring Shouts next week, Three
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Speaker 1: Rivers Hotel at Wyndham and Brunnel Peaks Cafe at Blackmount
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Speaker 1: on the Thursday. Look, we're well and truly into the
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Speaker 1: election cycle now, and they had the rural debate the
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Speaker 1: other night with Heather Dupesie-Allen as host. I understand you
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Speaker 1: didn't watch a lot of it, but myself and Michelle
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Speaker 1: tried to get a bit of a gauge for you.
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Speaker 8: Well, good on you.
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Speaker 7: Yes, I had a couple of pints at golf, and
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Speaker 7: then I got home and got distracted by the spin-off
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Speaker 7: series from Reacher called Nearly.
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Speaker 1: Priorities.
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Speaker 8: Priorities, I know. Rural broadcaster.
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Speaker 7: And then I thought, oh, shit, I'd better go back
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Speaker 7: and watch the rural debate. And I watched a wee
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Speaker 7: bit of the end of it, and then Heather said
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Speaker 7: to them, right, you've got 60 seconds each to sum
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Speaker 7: up your argument. And I thought, I don't know if
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Speaker 7: I can face this. because that's the pre-scripted stuff that
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Speaker 7: I don't actually enjoy. And I think it was Steve
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Speaker 7: Abel's turn to speak. And I don't mind Steve. I
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Speaker 7: like him as a bloke, but he's got no idea
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Speaker 7: or no reality when it comes to actual farming. Steve would, well,
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Speaker 7: they kind of backflipped a wee bit on the nitrogen.
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Speaker 7: They were talking about banning synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. Now they're
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Speaker 7: down to a limit of 125 kilograms per hectare per annum,
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Speaker 7: which is a bit of a And to be honest,
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Speaker 7: farmers could probably.
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Speaker 8: Live with that.
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Speaker 7: But, you know, they bang on about organic and regenerative
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Speaker 7: farming and thinking that is the utopia and it's a
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Speaker 7: solve all.
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Speaker 4: It's not.
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Speaker 7: They're niche farming methods. They work for some people and
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Speaker 7: they work well. Look at the payout from Fonterra for
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Speaker 7: organic milk. If that floats your boat, get into it.
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Speaker 7: But it's not possible for everybody to do it. In
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Speaker 7: actual fact, I talked to a chief executive of a
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Speaker 7: major dairy co-op, and I said, what would happen if
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Speaker 7: everyone went organic?
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Speaker 8: Not that they would, but it would crash the price overnight.
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Speaker 9: So.
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Speaker 7: It's supply and demand, niche product, but organics and regenerative
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Speaker 7: farming is not the fix-all that Steve Abel would believe
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Speaker 7: it is.
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Speaker 1: Joe Luxton coming out and saying that Labour would be
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Speaker 1: a lot more friendlier to farmers this time around. Well,
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Speaker 1: they weren't last time, that's for sure.
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Speaker 7: They were awful last time, but you remember they had
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Speaker 7: David Parker, and I think he really had a snitch
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Speaker 7: against farming. He was on a one-man crusade almost to
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Speaker 7: destroy farming in some ways. Damien wasn't always the most user-friendly,
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Speaker 7: and I will give Jo her Jews. They have with her,
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Speaker 7: and she's a very conciliatory sort of person, they've really
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Speaker 7: mended fences with the farming community, especially federated farmers. They've
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Speaker 7: gone out of their way to woo federated farmers. And
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Speaker 7: Chippy is definitely, to his credit again, I'm not saying
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Speaker 7: I would trust them if they got in there, but Chippy,
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Speaker 7: to his credit, has come out and said publicly that
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Speaker 7: We got it wrong with farming in 2020 to 2023.
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Speaker 7: We've gone out, we've listened, we've changed, and we've seen
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Speaker 7: that with them not pricing ag emissions. So I'll give
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Speaker 7: Labour the benefit of the doubt on this one. Their
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Speaker 7: potential coalition partners, not in a month to Sundays. The Greens,
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Speaker 7: straight out anti-farming. Top, not much better. And the activist party,
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Speaker 7: I don't know what the hell they're up to.
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Speaker 1: Chippy's come out angry this week, though, attacking Hosking the
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Speaker 1: other morning. And what did Mike say? This today was interesting.
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Speaker 1: He said it's almost like Trevor Mallard's behind him. He's
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Speaker 1: got to wind him up each time before he goes
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Speaker 1: out on stage so he can actually get into attack mode.
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Speaker 7: Well, someone's got in Chippy's ear because I've found with
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Speaker 7: him over the years that I've spoken to him. He's
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Speaker 7: a personable sort of bloke, but he's kind of a
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Speaker 7: bit like a half deflated balloon. And I don't mean
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Speaker 7: that in a nasty way. but he's not really super energised,
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Speaker 7: whereas if you talk to someone like Luxon, he's a
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Speaker 7: bit like an energiser bunny. He's all over the place,
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Speaker 7: you know, and you could never accuse him of a
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Speaker 7: lack of enthusiasm. But someone's got onto Chippy's ear, and
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Speaker 7: the piece of radio with Mike Hosking on ZB was
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Speaker 7: a really fascinating listening, because Chippy got straight onto the
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Speaker 7: front foot and actually scored a couple of blows, to
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Speaker 7: be fair, and Hosking was taken aback for a minute,
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Speaker 7: but as soon as they got onto Chippy's capital gains tax,
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Speaker 7: which is going to be their Achilles heel. It's their
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Speaker 7: only tax policy. They're not going to generate much income
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Speaker 7: in the next few years through the capital gains tax.
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Speaker 7: And worse still, they've promised to spend it all on
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Speaker 7: three visits for everyone in New Zealand to the doctor.
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Speaker 7: It is so poorly targeted in a health system that
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Speaker 7: is crying out for more resources.
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Speaker 8: Yes, I agree.
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Speaker 7: A capital gains tax, if you're going to have one,
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Speaker 7: Let's poke it all towards health, but.
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Speaker 8: Let's make it targeted. This is such a stupid, stupid policy.
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Speaker 1: Right, let's talk something a bit happier, although as a
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Speaker 1: Stags fan, long-suffering Stags fans, two wins this year. It
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Speaker 1: turns out Bay of Plenty and Waikato, they're Southland's bunnies
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Speaker 1: over the past couple of seasons. We've got to play
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Speaker 1: Northland tonight. Normally you'd say we're a good chance in
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Speaker 1: this game, but Northland's near the top of the table.
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Speaker 1: They should have beaten counties and retained the shield for
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Speaker 1: the summer. They've lost it, and they're coming down to
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Speaker 1: Invercargill tonight, and this promises to be not too bad
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Speaker 1: a game. Hopefully the Stags go out there and leave
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Speaker 1: it all in the paddock.
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Speaker 7: Well, I don't want to wish ill on the farmers
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Speaker 7: and the weather, but could we get a wee cold snap.
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Speaker 1: Coming in tonight?
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Speaker 10: No, no, no, no.
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Speaker 1: We've had enough of that.
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Speaker 8: We're going to beat the dry-running rugby, Jamie.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, well, Northland are a good side, and I was
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Speaker 7: really disappointed that they lost the Shield because they hadn't
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Speaker 7: had it for 48 years or something like that. So
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Speaker 7: I would have loved it to have spent the summer
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Speaker 7: in Whangarei. It's not going to.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know.
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Speaker 7: I mean, the Southland Stags at home are a much
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Speaker 7: better team than they are on the road.
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Speaker 8: I think they've got a starter's chance. They might be.
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Speaker 7: TAB, Andy, for, I don't know, 12 and under. But, yeah,
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Speaker 7: another disappointing season, really. But the good news is these
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Speaker 7: young guys we've got coming through, you know, Jimmy Taylor,
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Speaker 7: young Muli Aina, some of these young players we've got.
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Speaker 7: Sean Withey's been outstanding. all season. So, you know, Jack
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Speaker 7: Taylor's been injured. I just really hope that we... And
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Speaker 7: get a shout-in for Jaden Henderson, Riversdale boy. I thought
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Speaker 7: he's been outstanding for someone they sort of dragged in
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Speaker 7: at the last minute. Every game I've watched him play,
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Speaker 7: I reckon he's been really good. So there's a kind
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Speaker 7: of a local guy who's come back to the province,
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Speaker 7: give him a go in the jersey, and he plays
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Speaker 7: with real heart because it means a whole lot to
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Speaker 7: him to play for Southland. I think sometimes some of
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Speaker 7: the imports aren't like that.
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Speaker 8: There you go, Andy. It's my final shot on anger.
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Speaker 1: Okay, we'll leave it there. Thanks for your time. I
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Speaker 1: really do appreciate it.
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Speaker 7: Good on you, Andy, and good luck to the farmers,
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Speaker 7: and good luck for a nice, fine week ahead.
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Speaker 1: Jamie Mackay and the Country Crossover, thanks to Bioactive Soils.
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Speaker 1: Phil Duncan's up next from Weather Watch, looking at the
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Speaker 1: forecast for the next seven days.
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Speaker 5: Oh, where, oh, where can my baby go?
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the muster. It is time to catch
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Speaker 1: up with Phil Duncan of Weatherwatch. Phil Duncan, good afternoon.
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Speaker 11: Good afternoon, Mr Muir.
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Speaker 1: We might have some sunshine on the horizon.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, it's a bit of a change, isn't it? Overdue
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Speaker 11: as well.
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Speaker 1: So what have we got for the next seven days?
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Speaker 1: We had sunshine on Wednesday. It was a thing of beauty,
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Speaker 1: I tell you. Yesterday wasn't too bad either. Showers on
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Speaker 1: the radar for this afternoon. For the next seven days,
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Speaker 1: are we going to be able to get the tailing
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Speaker 1: pens going, get the tractors out into the paddock?
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Speaker 11: Yeah, you can finally, you know, spread your wings and fly.
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Speaker 11: The weather is definitely changing, and that usually happens in October. October, usually,
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Speaker 11: we get these little moments where it feels like summer
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Speaker 11: is actually arriving. Not necessarily with the super heat, but
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Speaker 11: just you're finding that you're not using perhaps your own
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Speaker 11: heaters and heat pumps and fires as much, and that
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Speaker 11: you might be flipping the T-shirt on a bit more
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Speaker 11: and things like that. We do have a change coming
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Speaker 11: thanks to a whole lot of high pressure that is
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Speaker 11: moving in. And while we've had a lot of high
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Speaker 11: pressure around New Zealand in recent weeks and months, it
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Speaker 11: hasn't been over us. That's why we've had all the
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Speaker 11: wind and the changeable weather. So high pressure is rolling
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Speaker 11: on in over the top of us. And so we've
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Speaker 11: got a cold change today, southerly coming in today, and
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Speaker 11: it will get cold tonight. There could be frosts tonight
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Speaker 11: around Southland. In fact, I expect them. So tomorrow's not
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Speaker 11: an overly warm day, but things change after that, and
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Speaker 11: that's where we see the temperatures creeping up as we
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Speaker 11: go through into Sunday. Excuse me, I said the frost
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Speaker 11: was tonight. It's tomorrow night. So tomorrow night, Saturday night,
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Speaker 11: down to one degree or zero. Frost when you wake
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Speaker 11: up on Sunday. Sunday's temperatures lift up a few degrees,
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Speaker 11: but it's next week that's warm. So the temperatures next week,
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Speaker 11: Wednesday's the coldest day with a high of 16 degrees.
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Speaker 11: That is not too bad. And you've got a little
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Speaker 11: bit of rain, four millimetres worth. That's not much. And
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Speaker 11: then the rest of the temperatures, I say 16 is
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Speaker 11: the lowest, 21, 22 is the highest. So it is
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Speaker 11: a lot warmer as we go into next week and
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Speaker 11: certainly next weekend. There is a change as that big
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Speaker 11: high that's over us moves out to our east, heads
18:17
Speaker 11: off towards the Chathams, and then that brings down subtropical northerlies.
18:22
Speaker 11: And so the positive note I want to give you
18:24
Speaker 11: is that Southland, in particular Gore, is going to be
18:28
Speaker 11: warmer than where I am in Auckland as we go
18:30
Speaker 11: through next week.
18:31
Speaker 1: How long is this weather going to stay for, would
18:33
Speaker 1: you say? Have you any ideas?
18:36
Speaker 11: So if I look at my long range weather map here,
18:39
Speaker 11: let's sort of load it up a bit. So what
18:41
Speaker 11: happens is I say it warms up right as we
18:43
Speaker 11: go into next weekend. So we've got a whole lot
18:45
Speaker 11: of northerlies and west coast rain and those north to
18:48
Speaker 11: north westerlies come out of Australia. So they're warm. Now
18:51
Speaker 11: there could be a little bit of a cold change
18:53
Speaker 11: a week and a half from now. but still more
18:56
Speaker 11: nor'west is coming back in. There is what looks to
19:00
Speaker 11: be low-pressure crossing New Zealand the middle of the month.
19:03
Speaker 11: I've got to stress that's, you know, 15, 14 days
19:06
Speaker 11: away from now. Highly changeable when you're that far out
19:10
Speaker 11: in spring. And that shows the next winter southerly coming
19:13
Speaker 11: back in, the polar boundary coming back in around the
19:15
Speaker 11: middle of the month with some low-pressure crossing New Zealand,
19:18
Speaker 11: which could be very good timing if it brings in
19:21
Speaker 11: rain around the country, which will be overdue by then.
19:25
Speaker 11: So we've still got the chance of polar snaps. And
19:28
Speaker 11: if you zoom out and you look at the weather
19:30
Speaker 11: map that includes Australia in it as well, what I'm
19:33
Speaker 11: seeing there is a number of cold events. So the
19:37
Speaker 11: southeast corner, Victoria, Tasmania, they're getting the polar boundary surging
19:41
Speaker 11: in a couple of times, two or three times. That's
19:43
Speaker 11: what you were getting before. So what I'm saying by
19:47
Speaker 11: that is we're not finished with these polarities. blasts. They're
19:51
Speaker 11: like solar flares, but they're polar flares. And if you
19:54
Speaker 11: think about Antarctica as this sort of hub of really
19:57
Speaker 11: cold weather, cold air, it sends these bursts of cold
20:03
Speaker 11: out from Antarctica, just like when you see a solar
20:06
Speaker 11: flare coming off the sun. And just like a solar flare,
20:10
Speaker 11: it pops out of one part. So it's popping out
20:13
Speaker 11: over the Australia side at the moment more than the
20:16
Speaker 11: Southland side, although there isn't a lot of difference between
20:19
Speaker 11: the two when you zoom out on a map. But
20:22
Speaker 11: I mention that because we're in a warm spell, but
20:24
Speaker 11: we're still seeing these shots of cold air coming out
20:26
Speaker 11: into Australia, which means that could still happen to us
20:30
Speaker 11: this month and maybe even going into November.
20:33
Speaker 1: How far through this El Nino weather system are we?
20:35
Speaker 1: And I ask you that because it seems as though
20:38
Speaker 1: the deep south and possibly the west coast are the
20:40
Speaker 1: areas in New Zealand that have been affected the most.
20:43
Speaker 11: Yeah, so that's a good question. The El Nino is
20:46
Speaker 11: still intensifying. I just put out my latest Climate Watch update,
20:50
Speaker 11: which looks at the month of October around New Zealand
20:53
Speaker 11: and Australia and the South Pacific, and it looks at
20:55
Speaker 11: the weather pattern and El Nino and all the other stuff.
20:58
Speaker 11: So in that video, one of the things I talked
21:00
Speaker 11: about was where we are on the El Nino graph,
21:04
Speaker 11: and then pointing out that it's still intensifying as we
21:06
Speaker 11: go through October and November. So it's at almost record
21:10
Speaker 11: levels at the moment. For El Nino to be declared,
21:13
Speaker 11: it means that the sea temperatures up at the equator
21:17
Speaker 11: are about nearly one degree above normal, so 0.8 degrees
21:21
Speaker 11: above normal. At the moment, it's over 2.7 degrees above normal.
21:26
Speaker 11: So it is a long way past what we would
21:28
Speaker 11: say is El Nino. It's near record levels. It's going
21:31
Speaker 11: to keep strengthening the next two months, which could make
21:34
Speaker 11: it a record breaker. And then it starts to taper
21:36
Speaker 11: back down again during summer. So to understand how that
21:40
Speaker 11: looks on a graph, where we are now at the
21:43
Speaker 11: start of October is how it will look by the
21:46
Speaker 11: start of February. So it peaks in November and December,
21:50
Speaker 11: and then it comes back down again to the levels
21:52
Speaker 11: we're at now. So we're in a solid El Nino
21:55
Speaker 11: between now and February, which is a fair bit of time.
21:58
Speaker 11: And obviously that could be still around going into autumn.
22:01
Speaker 11: In saying all of that, El Nino affects our weather
22:05
Speaker 11: around about 25%. So it's part of the equation. But
22:09
Speaker 11: we've got other things going on as well, including the
22:12
Speaker 11: high pressure belt around Australia and how stormy the Southern
22:15
Speaker 11: Ocean is. And the Southern Ocean being stormy, while it's
22:18
Speaker 11: not great for you guys, it's a good thing for
22:20
Speaker 11: New Zealand because it does give us more chances of
22:24
Speaker 11: getting wet weather and typically a dry kind of spring.
22:27
Speaker 1: We had a good howling nor'wester last night. As far
22:30
Speaker 1: as winds over the next seven days, what have we got?
22:33
Speaker 11: Yeah, the nor'westers are around a wee bit. That's why
22:36
Speaker 11: your temperatures are going up. Nothing too serious. Today's a
22:39
Speaker 11: little bit windy with the westerly blowing. Wind is not
22:42
Speaker 11: a feature really coming through. But those nor'westers and westerlies,
22:46
Speaker 11: they're the common theme. And so you'll feel those. But
22:50
Speaker 11: because high pressure will be coming in and over us,
22:53
Speaker 11: that's why we've got Frosts and some still cold nights
22:57
Speaker 11: just over the next few nights ahead. The winds are
22:59
Speaker 11: going to be pretty light. So wind isn't too much
23:01
Speaker 11: of a problem. Frost is an issue on Sunday. There's
23:06
Speaker 11: a likely frost coming through on Sunday morning, Saturday night,
23:09
Speaker 11: Sunday morning. And there also might be a little bit
23:12
Speaker 11: of fog around because we are at that time of
23:14
Speaker 11: year where you get warmer days, colder nights. The sea
23:18
Speaker 11: is still at lower temperatures and you get high pressure
23:21
Speaker 11: over you that causes fog. So fog is possible as
23:23
Speaker 11: well on Sunday with that frost, and we could be
23:27
Speaker 11: seeing a little bit of fog around going into next week.
23:29
Speaker 11: Not much, but just a little bit around. And if
23:31
Speaker 11: it's not fog, it just might be a little bit
23:33
Speaker 11: of morning cloud that turns away.
23:35
Speaker 1: Good news for the next seven days, Phil Duncan. Whenever
23:38
Speaker 1: you look into your Weather Watch Datatronic 2000 and give
23:41
Speaker 1: us this data, you're our favourite weather person in the South.
23:45
Speaker 11: It's the best machine in the world, honestly. Everyone should
23:48
Speaker 11: have one.
23:49
Speaker 1: Good on you, Phil. Enjoy your weekend.
23:51
Speaker 11: You too, buddy. Thank you.
23:54
Speaker 1: Phil Duncan of Weather Watch. Every Friday here in the muster,
23:58
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24:00
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24:03
Speaker 1: Northern Southland Vets.
24:09
Speaker 6: The muster's animal health segment with NS Vets.
24:12
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24:17
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24:22
Speaker 1: Morgan Green joins us once again from Enneas Vets based
24:26
Speaker 1: in Riversdale G'day Morgie since we spoke to you last
24:30
Speaker 1: it's been wet but from a vet's perspective what's the
24:32
Speaker 1: situation like?
24:33
Speaker 10: Oh yes it certainly has been wet and I guess
24:38
Speaker 10: one of the challenges that that creates in particular for
24:42
Speaker 10: cows is there's certainly a lot more lameness around this
24:46
Speaker 10: year than what we normally expect though I guess maybe
24:50
Speaker 10: the last two years is the new normal along with
24:53
Speaker 10: this year.
24:54
Speaker 9: And it's something we're going to have to deal with
24:56
Speaker 9: in the future. But when we have cows that are
24:59
Speaker 9: in wet, soft conditions for as long as what it
25:02
Speaker 9: has been, essentially their feet just soften up. So lameness
25:07
Speaker 9: has certainly been a big issue. And I guess people
25:10
Speaker 9: definitely need to look at some strategies around how we
25:13
Speaker 9: deal with that. So it's really taking cows slowly coming
25:17
Speaker 9: into the shed. It's not pushing them too hard when
25:20
Speaker 9: they're on concrete and you really do need to consider
25:23
Speaker 9: things like once a day milking um you know in
25:26
Speaker 9: particular for the younger girls as well often that will
25:29
Speaker 9: be the case just because of feed situation as well
25:32
Speaker 9: but um you know lameness certainly is a big issue
25:34
Speaker 9: and then the other thing that we're seeing a wee
25:36
Speaker 9: bit more of at the moment is mastitis and look
25:38
Speaker 9: and that's just due to the due to the conditions
25:40
Speaker 9: that we have out there and i guess one of
25:42
Speaker 9: the Yeah, one of the major preventatives that we have
25:45
Speaker 9: around mastitis is just making sure that teat spray is
25:48
Speaker 9: being applied correctly in sufficient quantities. And so most people
25:53
Speaker 9: now have automatic sprayers. There's very, very little manual spray
25:58
Speaker 9: happening in sheds these days, especially once they're out of
26:01
Speaker 9: the colostrum mob. But, you know, it's just making sure that, hey,
26:04
Speaker 9: the sprayer is actually working adequately. And you do need
26:08
Speaker 9: to stand there and watch it work and make sure
26:13
Speaker 9: that it is hitting all teats of all cows. And otherwise,
26:19
Speaker 9: they're not really having that protection once they get back
26:21
Speaker 9: out into the paddock. So, yeah, it's really, really critical.
26:24
Speaker 9: And then the other thing that you can do is
26:26
Speaker 9: to do a teat score and just make sure that
26:29
Speaker 9: teat condition is okay. And if not, coming up with
26:34
Speaker 9: a strategy to try and fix that.
26:36
Speaker 1: Going to once a day milking, this is just going
26:39
Speaker 1: to have to be something in the toolbox for people
26:41
Speaker 1: to consider, considering the feed levels. Oh, look, 100%.
26:45
Speaker 9: And a lot of people will have considered that already. And,
26:47
Speaker 9: you know, whether it's once a day or just, you know,
26:49
Speaker 9: reduced frequency, three and two, whatever it's going to be,
26:52
Speaker 9: it doesn't really matter. But just reducing that frequency is
26:57
Speaker 9: certainly going to help in certain situations. We need to
27:03
Speaker 9: make sure that cows are not losing too much weight
27:05
Speaker 9: because that's At this time of year, cows are designed
27:07
Speaker 9: to produce milk. So it's just making sure that we
27:12
Speaker 9: can keep body condition score on them. Most of the
27:15
Speaker 9: cows that I've seen recently, to be fair, are still
27:18
Speaker 9: looking pretty good. We did have that. That might have
27:23
Speaker 9: been two years ago when we had that first really
27:27
Speaker 9: wet spring that we were in a similar situation where
27:29
Speaker 9: guys really held condition for a long period of time
27:33
Speaker 9: but kind of suffered for it a little bit later.
27:36
Speaker 9: after that, just because cows did actually produce quite well.
27:41
Speaker 9: So it's just a case of continuing to monitor things,
27:44
Speaker 9: making sure that you're doing all the basics as much
27:47
Speaker 9: as you can each and every day. And look, and
27:49
Speaker 9: just being mindful that it is tough. It's not easy
27:54
Speaker 9: to get through things. Focus on the positives. Focus on
27:57
Speaker 9: the little wins that happen each day. Focus on the
27:59
Speaker 9: fact that we've got to a reasonably warm, windy day today,
28:04
Speaker 9: which is helping to dry things up a wee bit.
28:06
Speaker 4: So, you know, all of those are little positives.
28:09
Speaker 9: And it's a case of trying to control what you
28:11
Speaker 9: can control and, you know, taking the little wins as
28:14
Speaker 9: you get them.
28:15
Speaker 1: Controlling the controllables. I like that saying. OK, lambing season.
28:19
Speaker 1: It's been a hell of a ride yet again. People
28:22
Speaker 1: are supposed to be tailing at the moment, tractors going
28:24
Speaker 1: and the likes, but it's not happening. So it brings
28:27
Speaker 1: a bigger conversation into play. If you're a tailing contractor,
28:30
Speaker 1: shout out to all you guys and gals out there. Jeez,
28:32
Speaker 1: you must be tearing your hair out.
28:34
Speaker 9: Oh, look, it's certainly not going to be easy. There's
28:40
Speaker 9: not going to have been too many days when it's been.
28:45
Speaker 10: When they've been able to get out.
28:46
Speaker 4: There and do the job.
28:47
Speaker 9: You know, I know typically these school holidays are ones
28:50
Speaker 9: where a hell of a lot of tailing happens when
28:52
Speaker 9: all the kids are at home, but, you know, hopefully
28:55
Speaker 9: next week might get a little bit done. You know,
28:59
Speaker 9: when conditions are the way that they are, you know,
29:01
Speaker 9: the key, it kind of gets back to some of
29:04
Speaker 9: the basics, the key being having, you know, ewes that
29:07
Speaker 9: are in good condition, that are going to be milking well,
29:09
Speaker 9: that are, you know, the lambs then are healthier, they're
29:12
Speaker 9: hitting the ground well, you know, The use trace element
29:14
Speaker 9: status is where it should be. So lambs are getting up,
29:18
Speaker 9: they're feeding, they're getting colostrum in as soon as possible.
29:24
Speaker 9: That's really the key to it because unfortunately in wet,
29:29
Speaker 9: muddy conditions, if lambs are not thriving as soon as
29:34
Speaker 9: they hit the ground and getting that colostrum into them,
29:37
Speaker 9: their immunity is not going to be I guess, on
29:43
Speaker 9: track straight away. So they are definitely more prone to that.
29:46
Speaker 9: So we're definitely going to see a lot more in
29:49
Speaker 9: the case of joint infections following on from navel infections.
29:53
Speaker 10: And all of that.
29:53
Speaker 9: So again, it's one of the extra complications that you have. Obviously,
29:58
Speaker 9: some of the stock loss is are much higher when
30:00
Speaker 9: conditions are really, really poor, but then there's also secondary
30:04
Speaker 9: health effects that happen then as well as a result
30:06
Speaker 9: of that. But I'd say it kind of gets back
30:09
Speaker 9: to not necessarily what's happening now, but what has happened
30:13
Speaker 9: already from the point of view of having those animals
30:16
Speaker 9: in ideal condition at lambing time, which is really, really important.
30:21
Speaker 9: And I guess it gets back to some of your
30:23
Speaker 9: conversations over the last couple of weeks around what is
30:27
Speaker 9: the ideal condition lambing date, what is the ideal calving date,
30:31
Speaker 9: should we be making things a little bit later in
30:33
Speaker 9: the year than what traditionally they have been just because
30:36
Speaker 9: we're potentially going to have a little bit more grass
30:38
Speaker 9: around animals in better condition when they're lambing and or
30:43
Speaker 9: calving when you've got longer grass you do have less
30:48
Speaker 9: mud so all of those things are just so important
30:51
Speaker 9: but it's a whole farm system discussion, it's not a Yeah,
30:58
Speaker 9: it's not a quick fix as such. It's around potentially
31:02
Speaker 9: having to change systems. Personally, I think it's a really,
31:07
Speaker 9: really good idea to be lambing that a little bit later.
31:10
Speaker 9: Often those animals do catch up. But look, as I say,
31:14
Speaker 9: it's an individual farm discussion and it is a whole
31:16
Speaker 9: farm system discussion as well.
31:18
Speaker 1: Innes Fitzmorgie, how do people get in touch?
31:21
Speaker 9: Just pick up the phone, give us a call, 2025
31:23
Speaker 9: 636 at Riversdale. 2497039 at Tiana.
31:30
Speaker 1: Morgan Green, always appreciate your time on The Master.
31:32
Speaker 9: No, good to chat, Andy. And as I say, I
31:36
Speaker 9: think we're looking like we have a few better days
31:38
Speaker 9: ahead of us, which will certainly pick people's spirits up
31:42
Speaker 9: and hopefully just helps to drive things up a wee
31:44
Speaker 9: bit because it's certainly needed out there.
31:48
Speaker 1: Morgan Green of NSVETS based in Riversdale. This is the
31:52
Speaker 1: muster on Hakanui up next. Steve Henderson farming down Awarua.
31:56
Speaker 1: And before the end of the hour, Newstalk ZB's Jason Pine.
32:08
Speaker 9: Haunting familiar, yeah.
32:12
Speaker 1: This is The Muster on Hokanui. Pearl Jam is the
32:15
Speaker 1: artist today. That song is called Elderly Woman Behind the
32:20
Speaker 1: Counter in a Small Town. Great song. Great guest up
32:25
Speaker 1: next as well, Steve Henderson, farming at Awarua. Good afternoon.
32:29
Speaker 4: Afternoon, Andy.
32:31
Speaker 1: How's everything down south today? Are you getting a little
32:34
Speaker 1: bit of rain as predicted after two days of sun?
32:37
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, after two days of sun. And it's come
32:40
Speaker 5: through as the forecast predicted, which is good.
32:43
Speaker 4: And that's all.
32:46
Speaker 5: Yeah, hopefully the forecast is true and it does stop shortly.
32:50
Speaker 5: And next week is going to be higher temperatures and
32:53
Speaker 5: calmer weather. So those last two days, soil temperatures jumped
32:58
Speaker 5: out of the ground and the grass has followed suit.
33:00
Speaker 5: And yeah, I think I'm optimistic that that is the
33:03
Speaker 5: turn that we need.
33:05
Speaker 1: What's the grass growth there? Are you starting to see
33:08
Speaker 1: early signs at the moment, or is it still too
33:10
Speaker 1: early after all that moisture?
33:13
Speaker 5: No, it's still a little bit early. Yeah, we are
33:15
Speaker 5: getting that bounce regrowth behind cows that have just eaten
33:18
Speaker 5: paddocks out, but we aren't getting that 50, 60, 70
33:22
Speaker 5: kilos a day yet. We're still doing 40 kilos a day.
33:25
Speaker 5: So we're still feeding half of their diet as supplement
33:32
Speaker 5: brought in, so... The quicker we can grow grass, the
33:35
Speaker 5: cheaper the milk's going to be, and that's going to
33:36
Speaker 5: be pretty key because, yeah, there's been a lot of
33:38
Speaker 5: supplement within Southland that's been brought in for September.
33:42
Speaker 1: Are you having to buy much feed in?
33:45
Speaker 4: Yeah, we are, yep.
33:46
Speaker 5: So we've got a little bit of milk and quality
33:48
Speaker 5: balish left, but we're trying to sort of tease that
33:51
Speaker 5: out as far as it can go and also have
33:53
Speaker 5: just a little bit left on hand because you can
33:55
Speaker 5: always get those cold days or some sort of pinch
33:58
Speaker 5: in October. So, yeah, we're... We're feeding pretty much our
34:02
Speaker 5: maximum in the cow shed we can and also bulk
34:06
Speaker 5: PK and DDG going out into the paddocks. So, yeah,
34:09
Speaker 5: we're feeding up to 10 kilos.
34:11
Speaker 4: And that won't be dissimilar.
34:12
Speaker 5: Some people will be doing more of the cow's diet
34:16
Speaker 5: that's being brought in. So, yeah, it's time-consuming too, which
34:19
Speaker 5: is probably the biggest constraint at the moment.
34:22
Speaker 1: I suppose that's a positive, though, being a dairy farmer,
34:24
Speaker 1: being able to feed the cows on the platform. It's
34:26
Speaker 1: another way to get tucker into them.
34:29
Speaker 4: Yeah, dead right, dead right.
34:31
Speaker 5: And we did talk about what, you know, what does
34:34
Speaker 5: it look like if this continues for another two weeks
34:37
Speaker 5: and sort of banter around.
34:38
Speaker 4: Maybe you go on once a day, but, yeah, you
34:40
Speaker 4: do it once a day.
34:41
Speaker 5: The cows need fed, so bringing them into the shed
34:44
Speaker 5: to feed them, you know, two and a half, three
34:46
Speaker 5: kilos is worth taking milk off them. So hopefully we
34:50
Speaker 5: don't get to that stage, but, yeah, bringing them to
34:52
Speaker 5: the shed, they obviously get fed.
34:53
Speaker 4: So it is quite a useful tool.
34:57
Speaker 1: So you've contemplated once a day?
34:59
Speaker 11: Yeah, we did.
35:00
Speaker 5: It was just sort of a chat around what if,
35:04
Speaker 5: what if that weather did continue for next week plus
35:07
Speaker 5: the week after. So yeah, I think once a day
35:10
Speaker 5: would have been a step, but it wouldn't be a
35:12
Speaker 5: first step. We'd still be trying to feed them, send
35:14
Speaker 5: them out of the paddock and bring them back into milk.
35:16
Speaker 5: So we want to keep them fully fed because mating's
35:18
Speaker 5: just around the corner and you don't really want to.
35:20
Speaker 4: Finish them yet.
35:22
Speaker 1: How does your critical thinking change then in the lead
35:25
Speaker 1: into mating?
35:27
Speaker 5: So I think it changed when I saw that forecast
35:29
Speaker 5: for next week and the last two days they were
35:34
Speaker 5: what the forecast said. So we've changed. We've actually increased
35:38
Speaker 5: the cow square metres now. We've been optimistic and gone
35:42
Speaker 5: down to a 25-day round. We were on a 30,
35:44
Speaker 5: so we're trying to pull out as much supplement as
35:46
Speaker 5: we can and obviously grow as much grass as we
35:49
Speaker 5: can to try and get that rising plane of nutrition
35:51
Speaker 5: and give the cows as much grass.
35:53
Speaker 4: As they can because that's obviously the cheapest feed.
35:57
Speaker 5: Non-cyclers and body condition scoring, we just condition scored Sam,
36:01
Speaker 5: condition scored them a couple of days ago, so we'll
36:03
Speaker 5: go through them and pair them up with non-cyclers and
36:06
Speaker 5: just have a look to see if we do make
36:08
Speaker 5: a group of possibly, you know, we only milk them
36:11
Speaker 5: once a day, that those cows still stay within the
36:13
Speaker 5: herd and come to the shed twice a day, but
36:15
Speaker 5: we just take milk off them once a day to.
36:16
Speaker 4: Try and reduce their demand and get them cycling.
36:19
Speaker 5: So we've got a bit of information to go through
36:22
Speaker 5: for the next week and we'll make a plan for
36:25
Speaker 5: non-cyclers because Yeah, we're October now and we're only four
36:28
Speaker 5: weeks away of planned start of mating.
36:29
Speaker 1: Yeah.
36:30
Speaker 4: So those decisions need to be made now.
36:32
Speaker 5: And it's always good to be on the front foot.
36:35
Speaker 4: You can get to November and deal with.
36:36
Speaker 5: Those non-cyclists, but you've probably missed an opportunity if you
36:39
Speaker 5: start doing it then.
36:41
Speaker 1: Hey, Steve, we'll touch on this too. We had the
36:43
Speaker 1: Field Days AGM last night. Firstly, congratulations. You've had your
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Speaker 1: four-year stint as chair. Simon Vallali taking over the role now.
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Speaker 1: But really interesting last night, Amelia from Hospice South came
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Speaker 1: and had a yarn with us, telling us all about
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Speaker 1: what they do down here. And that is one organisation
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Speaker 1: that is a really, really good thing to have.
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Speaker 5: Oh, I was sort of, yeah, gobsmacked about how.
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Speaker 4: how much they do.
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Speaker 5: In the community and the intensity of their care and
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Speaker 5: the families that are involved. And there's only been great
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Speaker 5: things spoken about them. And the funding was also an
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Speaker 5: interesting thing. They get half it through the government, but
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Speaker 5: the other half comes from businesses and charities supporting them
37:28
Speaker 5: in Southland.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, she spoke.
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Speaker 5: About the $ 3 million that comes through the hospice shops.
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Speaker 5: So that's That's people going in, buying from the hospice
37:36
Speaker 5: shops that have been donated to go back to the community.
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Speaker 5: And every family will be touched by hospice at some point.
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Speaker 5: If it's not now, it could well be later on,
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Speaker 5: and you'll probably obviously know someone that's been through the
37:48
Speaker 5: need of hospice. So, yeah, it was a real eye-opener and, yeah,
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Speaker 5: real credit to hospice, and they're a very vital organisation
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Speaker 5: for the South, eh?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Mealy was one of two palliative care nurses who,
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Speaker 1: from this region anyway, based in Riversdale. And you're just
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Speaker 1: really interesting, just putting it into context, what it means.
38:08
Speaker 1: And Southern Indoor Charity Dog Trails, they send any money
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Speaker 1: that they raise goes towards Hospice South. So you're dead right,
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Speaker 1: it affects everybody in some way, shape or form at
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Speaker 1: some stage.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it does. And to have someone come in and
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Speaker 5: speak about it, I think the whole committee.
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Speaker 4: gained something.
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Speaker 5: Out of it, and, yeah, we're now a little bit
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Speaker 5: more wiser as to the needs around that.
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Speaker 1: Now, your term's over as chair. When you look back
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Speaker 1: and reflect on those four years, you'll be pretty chuffed.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it was a good four years, and,
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Speaker 5: you know, it's always... Always got to thank.
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Speaker 4: The committee for having a bit of faith in you.
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Speaker 5: And the committee is probably the biggest thing around the
38:52
Speaker 5: Southern Field Days. They're just a get-on-and-get-it-done sort of committee.
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Speaker 5: So it made life reasonably easy. And, yeah, I do
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Speaker 5: look forward to seeing what the Southern Field Days can
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Speaker 5: do for the next four years, eight years, you know,
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Speaker 5: in 20 years' time. It's a pretty big evolving beast. And, yeah,
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Speaker 5: Simon will really enjoy it. And, yeah, four years will
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Speaker 5: fly for him.
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Speaker 1: Too right. Good on you, Steve. Enjoy the weekend. Always
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Speaker 1: appreciate your time.
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Speaker 5: No worries.
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Speaker 4: Thanks, Andy.
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Speaker 5: And yep, listeners, if the sun's out tomorrow, enjoy it
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Speaker 5: and yeah, get a bit of vitamin D.
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Speaker 1: Steve Henderson, based down at Awarua. This is the muster
39:30
Speaker 1: before we wrap up for the week. Jason Pine of
39:32
Speaker 1: Newstalk ZB. Let's talk a bit of sport ahead of
39:35
Speaker 1: the weekend. Jason Pine is the host of Weekend Sport
39:49
Speaker 1: on Newstalk ZB, 12 to 3 every Saturday and Sunday.
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Speaker 1: Jason Pine, good afternoon. What the hell has happened to
39:56
Speaker 1: your beloved Wellington Lions?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you've led out nice and strongly there, Andy. And
40:02
Speaker 2: it's a question I'm not sure I can accurately answer.
40:06
Speaker 2: What we do know is they're 0 and 9 this season.
40:10
Speaker 2: One game to go against Taranaki on the weekend. And
40:13
Speaker 2: that's a Taranaki side boosted by not just one Barrett,
40:16
Speaker 2: but two. in Scott and Bowdoin up in New Plymouth.
40:19
Speaker 2: So the Wellington Lions are staring down the barrel of
40:22
Speaker 2: an 0-10 season, easily the worst season in living memory.
40:28
Speaker 2: What's the reason for it? It's very hard to know.
40:31
Speaker 2: You know, I think the depth of player in the
40:36
Speaker 2: Wellington region is clearly not deep enough to sustain, you know,
40:41
Speaker 2: a side that's going to challenge or even win matches.
40:43
Speaker 11: In the NPCs.
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Speaker 2: There were a few taken out through All Blacks duty,
40:48
Speaker 2: but that's the same with a lot of these unions. So, look,
40:51
Speaker 2: it's mystifying. It's very, very hard to explain. And I
40:54
Speaker 2: think most people in my part of the country will
40:57
Speaker 2: just be happy to see the end of the season
40:58
Speaker 2: as we can start looking forward to Super Rugby. I mean,
41:01
Speaker 2: that's the other thing, Andy. The Hurricanes just enjoyed probably
41:05
Speaker 2: their best ever season. And then Wellington, which, of course,
41:08
Speaker 2: anchors the Hurricanes region, have slumped to their worst. So
41:12
Speaker 2: it's very, very hard to understand.
41:14
Speaker 1: And of course, Wellington won the NPC two years ago
41:16
Speaker 1: over Bay of Plenty in extra time, which Mark Kelly
41:19
Speaker 1: reminds me about every three weeks or so. But is
41:23
Speaker 1: it a case of local players, imports not up to
41:25
Speaker 1: the mark? What's happening?
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Speaker 2: Well, I think earlier on in the season, there were
41:30
Speaker 2: some players from outside of the region, a couple of
41:32
Speaker 2: Australian players, a couple of Japanese players, and there was
41:36
Speaker 2: a little bit of discontent around Wellington about the fact
41:38
Speaker 2: that these players weren't improving the team. So if you're
41:41
Speaker 2: going to lose matches, you might as well lose with
41:43
Speaker 2: local players that has righted itself over the last little while.
41:47
Speaker 2: But I think that's it. I think we've just found
41:50
Speaker 2: that the players who have been brought in are just
41:53
Speaker 2: not at the level that can be competitive. I mean,
41:56
Speaker 2: there are a couple of exceptions on the side. Duplicy
41:59
Speaker 2: Khalifi has been a beacon for this team. Callum Harkin,
42:03
Speaker 2: who played a lot of the hurricane season, is also there.
42:06
Speaker 2: But outside of that, the drop down has been quite startling.
42:13
Speaker 2: And as we've said, Andy, the results on the field
42:16
Speaker 2: have demonstrated exactly what we're talking about here.
42:19
Speaker 1: Now, we can't really speak too loudly down here in
42:21
Speaker 1: the south, mate. We've won two games for the year,
42:23
Speaker 1: last game against Northland tonight. But like to do for
42:27
Speaker 1: the secret, is he a victim of circumstance when it
42:29
Speaker 1: comes to the All Blacks?
42:31
Speaker 2: I think he's a victim of what Dave Rennie's after. Yeah,
42:33
Speaker 2: you look at Dave Rennie's loose forward choices and the
42:36
Speaker 2: one thing they all have in common is the amount
42:39
Speaker 2: of meat on their bones.
42:40
Speaker 9: They're all.
42:41
Speaker 2: Big, big man. And while Duplissie Karifi has got a
42:45
Speaker 2: heart of a lion and more courage than most rugby players,
42:50
Speaker 2: he just doesn't, I guess in the eyes of Dave Rennie,
42:53
Speaker 2: have the size needed to implement Dave Rennie's game plan.
42:57
Speaker 2: You look at the latest Bledisloe Cup selections and the
43:00
Speaker 2: reintroduction of Shannon Frizzell, a big bopper, who they like. But,
43:05
Speaker 2: you know, even going to the likes of Semisi Tupo
43:07
Speaker 2: Te Eloa, You know, a bit of a bolter in
43:10
Speaker 2: the eyes of many after Moana Pacifica's season, but a
43:14
Speaker 2: big guy who can move bodies, and clearly that's what
43:18
Speaker 2: Dave Rennie's after. You know, Simon Parker, Luke Jacobson, and
43:22
Speaker 2: others have been used as battering rams more than anything
43:27
Speaker 2: to get over the advantage line, to set quick ball
43:30
Speaker 2: up for the backs and hope that they can spread
43:32
Speaker 2: it wide and play with optimism, which is Dave Rennie's catchphrase,
43:35
Speaker 2: of course. So, yeah, I think Dukes has certainly... One
43:39
Speaker 2: of those, we've also seen the emergence of guys like
43:41
Speaker 2: Anton Segner, who just this week signed a deal, what,
43:44
Speaker 2: beyond the next World Cup? So they clearly rate him
43:46
Speaker 2: very highly. You know, a lot of competition in the
43:49
Speaker 2: loose forwards, as there is in a lot of these positions.
43:53
Speaker 2: And you can't pick everybody. I mean, Sam Dowery isn't
43:55
Speaker 2: in the Bledisloe Cup squad, and he performed really well
43:59
Speaker 2: on the recent tour of South Africa, but Scott Barrett's
44:01
Speaker 2: return has just squeezed him out. So they always say
44:04
Speaker 2: that coaches want these headaches. They want players... putting their
44:08
Speaker 2: hands up and they can't pick everybody.
44:10
Speaker 1: Adi Sarver going to the Blues next year. Are you surprised,
44:13
Speaker 1: considering he's Wellingtonian?
44:15
Speaker 2: Knock me over with a feather.
44:16
Speaker 11: Knock me over with a feather, Andy.
44:18
Speaker 2: No, no surprise at all. He was never coming back
44:21
Speaker 2: to Wellington. He's relocated, really, his family up to Auckland
44:25
Speaker 2: with Moana Pacifica. He's got very close ties into the
44:28
Speaker 2: Blues with a lot of those players. He seems particularly
44:31
Speaker 2: close with the likes of Rico Ioane and a couple
44:34
Speaker 2: of others. And to be fair, You know, the Blues
44:37
Speaker 2: are losing Dalton Papali'i and Hoskins Satutu. So they actually
44:41
Speaker 2: need a bit of loose forward reinforcement. And what better
44:44
Speaker 2: reinforcement than the All Blacks captain? This wasn't a surprise.
44:47
Speaker 2: And look, while you'd always want Ardysa there in your team,
44:51
Speaker 2: the Hurricanes showed this year that their loose forwards are
44:53
Speaker 2: actually a pretty well-functioning unit. You know, they've got good
44:57
Speaker 2: competition for places the likes of Duplissi Karifi and Peter
45:01
Speaker 2: Larkite and Braden Yossi and plenty of others. And of course,
45:06
Speaker 2: Sumichi Tupo-Tailoa, who we mentioned before, has this morning confirmed
45:10
Speaker 2: that he is coming to Hurricanes country. So, yeah, look,
45:14
Speaker 2: I mean, the other part of this is that it's
45:17
Speaker 2: great to have Adi Savia, this beacon of New Zealand rugby,
45:22
Speaker 2: in our biggest city. You know, we know that there's
45:24
Speaker 2: competition for eyeballs in Auckland in particular with the Warriors there.
45:28
Speaker 2: And where Adi Savia goes, eyeballs will follow. So I
45:32
Speaker 2: think it's a good move all around. And he also reunites,
45:35
Speaker 2: of course, with Jason Holland, the new coach of the Blues.
45:38
Speaker 2: The two of them worked together at the Hurricanes for
45:40
Speaker 2: several years. So, yeah, I think it's the right outcome
45:43
Speaker 2: all round, really.
45:44
Speaker 1: The Knights against the Roosters in the NRL Grand Final.
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Speaker 1: Your producer, Andy McDonald, will be like a pig in
45:50
Speaker 1: the proverbial this week. But look, you just look at
45:53
Speaker 1: the Warriors and what a missed opportunity this has been,
45:56
Speaker 1: given the way the Knights have gone. Or have the
45:59
Speaker 1: Knights gone beyond expectations and last week they grew an
46:01
Speaker 1: extra player?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, they've certainly gone beyond expectation at the start
46:05
Speaker 2: of the season, I think. You know, they were wooden
46:06
Speaker 2: spooners last year, so when you finish rock bottom, I
46:09
Speaker 2: guess the only way is up. It's just a matter
46:11
Speaker 2: of how far up. And, you know, the Knights got
46:14
Speaker 2: up into the top eight, and I think a lot
46:15
Speaker 2: of their fans would have been happy with that. But
46:18
Speaker 2: they haven't stopped there. They've won three knockout games in
46:20
Speaker 2: a row, and all of a sudden they're in the
46:21
Speaker 2: grand final against a Roosters side that kind of stumbled
46:25
Speaker 2: and bumbled their way towards the finish line. Having looked
46:28
Speaker 2: every inch, the minor premiers with about a month to go,
46:31
Speaker 2: they lost... their last three matches of the regular season.
46:33
Speaker 2: Then they lost their first match in the playoffs. But
46:36
Speaker 2: since then, they've kind of got their season back on track.
46:40
Speaker 2: I think everybody loves the story of the Newcastle Knights.
46:43
Speaker 2: You know, the fact that, you know, there is this
46:46
Speaker 2: underdog story, a team that hasn't been in the grand
46:49
Speaker 2: final for a quarter of a century and was really,
46:52
Speaker 2: as I've just mentioned, not expected to do a heck
46:56
Speaker 2: of a lot this season. Of course, Caelan Pong is
46:59
Speaker 2: on the team. We love him as a Kiwi, and
47:01
Speaker 2: he'll shortly, of course, wear our jersey in the Rugby
47:04
Speaker 2: League World Cup. Yeah, look, I think the Roosters are favourite, Andy.
47:08
Speaker 2: I don't think there's any doubt that the Roosters will
47:11
Speaker 2: go into the game as favourites. They've, as I say,
47:13
Speaker 2: come right in the last couple of weeks and have
47:15
Speaker 2: a lot of attacking firepower. But if last weekend taught
47:19
Speaker 2: us anything, that Knights win over the Panthers, it is
47:22
Speaker 2: that anything is possible when it comes to knockout footy
47:25
Speaker 2: in a one-off match. anybody can beat anybody. That's been
47:29
Speaker 2: proven time and again across this season. The Warriors lost
47:32
Speaker 2: to the West Tigers, for goodness sake, and they were
47:34
Speaker 2: terrible for most of the year. So, look, I think
47:37
Speaker 2: the Roosters are favourite, but I think if you don't
47:40
Speaker 2: have any skin in this game, if you're not a
47:41
Speaker 2: Roosters or a Knights fan, I think you like the
47:44
Speaker 2: underdog story and you're probably cheering for the Knights.
47:47
Speaker 1: Just finally to wrap up, Pidey, how concerned will rugby
47:50
Speaker 1: officials be given the Warriors sold out Eden Park as
47:52
Speaker 1: quickly as they did?
47:54
Speaker 2: Oh, look, I don't think there's any surprise to that, Andy.
47:58
Speaker 2: I don't think, you know, New Zealand rugby was sort
48:00
Speaker 2: of caught on the hop by that. That was always
48:02
Speaker 2: going to happen. I mean, the Warriors sell out every
48:04
Speaker 2: week at Goat Media, win, lose or draw. So on
48:07
Speaker 2: an occasion like a finals match, that was always going
48:10
Speaker 2: to happen. Yes, New Zealand rugby's got some challenges around crowds.
48:14
Speaker 2: I think the bigger concern for them is probably how
48:17
Speaker 2: to win the hearts and minds of the young players
48:19
Speaker 2: now coming through year 12, 13, 14, 15-year-old players young
48:23
Speaker 2: men in particular, and young women as well, who are
48:26
Speaker 2: looking for a career in professional sport. And they'll look
48:29
Speaker 2: at what's happening at Warriors HQ, those massive crowds, that
48:33
Speaker 2: huge support, and they'll think, man, give me some of that.
48:36
Speaker 2: So rugby's challenge is to make their game, the 15-a-side game,
48:41
Speaker 2: an attractive pathway for our best young players. I mean,
48:44
Speaker 2: let's be honest, rugby league and rugby, the skills are
48:46
Speaker 2: very interchangeable. So a player who's good at one will
48:50
Speaker 2: likely be good at another, given the right coaching framework
48:52
Speaker 2: and such like. So I think that's one of the
48:55
Speaker 2: big challenges as far as rugby league and rugby is concerned.
48:58
Speaker 2: For both coaches, really. Rugby league seem to have got
49:00
Speaker 2: a bit of wind in their sails, and the Warriors
49:03
Speaker 2: have been a massive part of that. But, you know,
49:05
Speaker 2: we're about to embark on a Bledisloe Cup series and
49:08
Speaker 2: end of year tour, and then next year we've got
49:10
Speaker 2: a rugby World Cup to look forward to. So, yeah,
49:13
Speaker 2: it's that.
49:15
Speaker 2: Emerging player, that elite player who now has a choice.
49:19
Speaker 2: I think those are the conversations that probably have to
49:22
Speaker 2: be had most pertinently at New Zealand Rugby HQ.
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Speaker 1: Jason Pine, host of Weekend Sport and Newstalk ZB, 12
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Speaker 1: to 3, Saturday and Sundays. Always appreciate your time. Go
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Speaker 1: the Stags.
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Speaker 10: Good on you, Andy.
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Speaker 2: Chat to you next time.