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The Muster- Josh Bennett: Waitane YFC · The Muster on Hokonui

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  Speaker 1: This is the muster on Hokanui. Josh Bennett joins us next.
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  Speaker 2: He's farming at Balfour, but he is part of Waitani
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  Speaker 2: Young Farmers.
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  Speaker 1: G'day, Josh. Up there in Balfour, ground conditions today?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, we're pretty good. We're flat out in the
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  Speaker 3: track to work, getting the spring cereal crops in. So, yeah, no,
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  Speaker 3: it's going pretty good at the moment, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because I.
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  Speaker 2: Think you guys haven't been as bad as certain parts
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  Speaker 2: of the region, but nonetheless it has been pretty darn wet.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, we haven't been as bad as like Riverton
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  Speaker 3: down those ways. We've probably had about 100 less mills
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  Speaker 3: for the month of September. So, I mean, it's been
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  Speaker 3: a little bit difficult to get on the paddocks, but
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  Speaker 3: we're getting there now.
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  Speaker 1: Well, having's all done and dusted.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, lambing's all done and dusted and we got the
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  Speaker 3: young farmers out to tail a few mobs on Friday night,
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  Speaker 3: Saturday morning. So we've got just under 1,800 of those
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  Speaker 3: tidied up as well.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, you're the regonade in the Balfour region, aren't you?
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  Speaker 2: You're the rebellious one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, big wooden spoon, like to stir it up.
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  Speaker 1: Fair enough, mate.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great way to earn money, fundraisers and that
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  Speaker 2: kind of thing. The group of you doing it, and
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  Speaker 2: we talked about this last week with Harry, it's enjoyable
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  Speaker 2: to do and there's a heap of you there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it really is. It's good when you can get
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  Speaker 3: a group of people in the tailing pen. It makes
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  Speaker 3: it enjoyable when you've got plenty of young fellas there
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  Speaker 3: and then all those lambs, that means I don't have
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  Speaker 3: to pick them up at the end of the day either.
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  Speaker 1: Would you still call yourself a young fella?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, I think so, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, it was a big weekend, Josh, up there in
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  Speaker 1: the basin.
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  Speaker 2: They had the bark up for Te Anau Young Farmers. Waitangi,
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  Speaker 2: you guys were there tailing in the morning, so it
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  Speaker 2: was a case of work hard, play hard.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the guys, Harry, Isla, Jackie, they did a great
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  Speaker 3: job in the rest of the Te Anau committee putting
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  Speaker 3: on a great bark up. Yeah, no, it was an
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  Speaker 3: awesome night, and then obviously Mark Gascoigne, came a little
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  Speaker 3: bit early and talked to a group of us, which
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  Speaker 3: I got a lot out, like his positive outlooks on
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  Speaker 3: life and whatnot. Talking about mental health was really good
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 2: But you guys and Young Farmers, is there something you
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  Speaker 2: openly talk about regarding mental health, or do people confide
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  Speaker 2: if they're going through a rough patch?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's probably a little bit taboo still, but I
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  Speaker 3: think as all this mental health stuff from Farm Strong
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  Speaker 3: Rural Health and you see people like John Curran and
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  Speaker 3: whatnot open up more about it, I think it's something
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  Speaker 3: that gets talked about at the pub a bit more
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  Speaker 3: often now because it's tough on the rural community when
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  Speaker 3: you see some of your close mates... feeling a bit
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  Speaker 3: down and farming's no good anymore. So, yeah, we don't
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  Speaker 3: want that to happen. It's about having those conversations early
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  Speaker 3: and keeping an eye on your mates, really, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting you say there's still a little bit of a
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  Speaker 2: stigma around it. Trust me, from where it was 30
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  Speaker 2: years ago to where it is now, it's a total
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  Speaker 2: change in attitude. What's it going to take to change
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  Speaker 2: the attitudes totally then?
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  Speaker 3: I think... I think what's good is people, like what
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  Speaker 3: Mark said, is people that everyone's going through their different
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  Speaker 3: stuff and everyone's got stuff that's going on at home
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  Speaker 3: that's not always rosy. And the more that you have
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  Speaker 3: those conversations with those friends, then they'll open up, you'll
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  Speaker 3: open up more, and then people can feel like they
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  Speaker 3: can combine in the mates as well. to keep the
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  Speaker 3: conversation rolling. I think that's a great part. One of
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  Speaker 3: Mark's golden rules for FarmStrong was connections. Go out and
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  Speaker 3: have those two beers. Don't sit at home and sit
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  Speaker 3: on the couch on a Friday night by yourself. Go
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  Speaker 3: out to the bar, go out to the pub and
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  Speaker 3: just have a chinwag and take your mind off things.
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  Speaker 2: But it can be far too easy just to sit
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  Speaker 2: at home and put it in the too hard basket.
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  Speaker 2: When you get older, that happens occasionally. But look, with
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  Speaker 2: your age group too, is that a thing? People just
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  Speaker 2: don't want to go out because of anxiety?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. I mean, I don't really see it first
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  Speaker 3: hand a lot. But yeah, I believe it will be
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  Speaker 3: a thing, people, especially over lambing and calving. Like you're
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  Speaker 3: putting in a lot of hours and then... If the
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  Speaker 3: weather's not as good, you push it to the limit
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  Speaker 3: even more and you think, oh, if I go out,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to affect tomorrow's workload. But you only have
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  Speaker 3: to come out for a few hours and have a
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  Speaker 3: Coke and raspberry at the pub and just let the
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  Speaker 3: hair down every now and again because 30 or 40
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  Speaker 3: days straight, which some of these young guys do, is
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  Speaker 3: pretty tough.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I keep spreading that message, Josh, and I
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  Speaker 2: just urge everybody out there, If they need to get
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  Speaker 2: in touch, you know, go and confide in a mate.
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  Speaker 1: Ask your mates, are you okay? How are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Southland Rural Support Trust doing a fantastic job out there.
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  Speaker 2: So let's get this out in the open. It's no
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  Speaker 2: longer a taboo subject. Now, Waitare Young Farmers, meeting dates,
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  Speaker 2: events coming up.
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  Speaker 1: What's happening?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so we just had our meeting last night. So
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  Speaker 3: we're the second Tuesday, second Monday of every month around the...
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  Speaker 3: the Gore area to look up for more information hit
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  Speaker 3: us up on our Facebook page that's where all the
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  Speaker 3: information is and we're going to get into a few
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  Speaker 3: more tiling fundraisers as the month goes on and probably
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  Speaker 3: hit up a few more bar cups as well so
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  Speaker 3: it should be good.
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  Speaker 2: Because young farmers they're really good at supporting their own
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  Speaker 2: with these events, you're quite happy to travel?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah absolutely it's the connections and the conversations you have
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  Speaker 3: with with all the new faces, is bloody brilliant. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's good to get off the farm and go for
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  Speaker 3: a wee ticky tour and see how the other areas
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  Speaker 3: are going.
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  Speaker 1: You guys will do tail twisters at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the meeting, I suppose.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody you'd like to name in shame?
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  Speaker 3: I think it was actually... We do a wooden spoon
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  Speaker 3: at the end of each month, but it was actually
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  Speaker 3: me last night. I went for a bit of a
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  Speaker 3: slide in the tractor and might have went through a fence, so....
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  Speaker 1: Oh, geez, I don't know if it's really a tail twist.
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  Speaker 1: It's about making sure you're all right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, there was no damage done. It was just, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we do a wooden spoon of the muck up of
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  Speaker 3: the month.
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  Speaker 1: Muck up of the month. I like that terminology. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: good on you, Josh.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for your time and really great messaging today as well.
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  Speaker 3: Good as. Cheers, Andy.
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  Speaker 2: a mate that went to a meeting for premature ejaculation today. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: it turns out it's tomorrow. Great words there from Josh
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  Speaker 2: regarding mental health and the fact that young people are
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  Speaker 2: recognising it as well and just talking to it amongst
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  Speaker 2: their peers. That's us over in Dunmouth for the afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Andy Muir here. Of course, the show is brought to
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  Speaker 2: you by Peter's Genetics. The podcast will be up shortly.
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  Speaker 2: And happy birthday to the king of the rural food chain,
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  Speaker 2: Jamie Mackay.
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  Speaker 1: See you tomorrow.