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The Muster Full Show: 29/10/26 · The Muster on Hokonui

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon and welcome to the muster on Hokonui. I'm
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Speaker 1: Andy Muir.
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Speaker 2: The show is brought to you by Peters Genetics on
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Speaker 2: a Thursday afternoon.
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Speaker 1: It's looking a bit grim outside.
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Speaker 2: It was blue sky to start off with this morning.
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Speaker 2: There was a dirty shower about an hour ago, and
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Speaker 2: I think that's just a tale of a tape for
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Speaker 2: the next 36 hours down here in the deep south.
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Speaker 2: We'll look at the weather shortly. Currently we're on about
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Speaker 2: 9 degrees as well, so... Spring being spring. Music today,
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Speaker 2: Men at Work. Particularly for one guest, who's over in
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Speaker 2: Australia as part of a pretty cool team. And a
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Speaker 2: song that did a lot for Vegemite, I think it's
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Speaker 2: fair to say. This afternoon, rain with breezy westerlies and
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Speaker 2: a high of 8. Friday, rain plus wind, there you go,
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Speaker 2: with brisk west-south-westers, 3 and 7. Saturday, sunshine with breezy north-westerlies,
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Speaker 2: 5 and 15.
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Speaker 1: Sunday, cloudy with breezy north-westerlies, 11 and 19.
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Speaker 2: And Monday, light rain and light south-westers to boot with
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Speaker 2: 6 and 12. So temperatures are as such. Clinton 11.8,
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Speaker 2: Heriot 10.5, northern south and 11.3.
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Speaker 1: Riverton, 11. Te Anau, 12. Titaroa, 10.5. Winton, 10.8.
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Speaker 2: And Woodlands, 11.8. I've got a couple of them around
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Speaker 2: the wrong way, but they're all in the double digits.
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Speaker 2: It's what you need to know. James Edgar of Moa
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Speaker 2: Flat starts us off this afternoon. And then we're all
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Speaker 2: over to Warrnambool, Warrnambool, in Victorian Australia. We catch up
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Speaker 2: with Duncan Leslie. He's part of the New Zealand sharing
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Speaker 2: team involved with the Trans-Tasman Challenge getting underway over there tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: Geordie Yead at the Riviera of the South, which is Riverton.
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Speaker 2: We have a chinwag, as we do with Geordie, on
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Speaker 2: a regular basis. Jackie Chamberlain in the beef and lamb
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Speaker 2: slot this afternoon talking about a virtual fencing technology field day.
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Speaker 2: Mark Kelly, Newstalk ZB, talks a bit of sport. And Teagle, David,
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Speaker 2: the real deal, Teagle Morrison, he gets us underway actually
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Speaker 2: very shortly. Some big prices for lambs yet again at Charlton.
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Speaker 2: And then after that, we'll start the hour with James Edgar.
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Speaker 2: This is The Muster, brought to you by Peter's Genetics.
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Speaker 1: This interview is brought to you by AgriCenter South. Branches
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Speaker 1: in Lawnville, Gore, Cromwell, Milton and Ranfurly.
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Speaker 3: Drop by your local AgriCenter South branch today.
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Speaker 2: James Edgar farms at Mower Flat and joins us once again.
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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, James. We caught up a couple of weeks ago.
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Speaker 2: You were enjoying the run of golden weather. How have
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Speaker 2: things been since?
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Speaker 4: They've been busy, Andy. We seem to have done a
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Speaker 4: lot of airs, which you sort of get this time
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Speaker 4: of the year. And, yeah, the job list is getting
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Speaker 4: ticked off, I suppose. But, yeah, it's just sort of
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Speaker 4: spring in Otago South. And the job's just about to
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Speaker 4: get put on the list faster than what you're ticking
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Speaker 4: them off some days.
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Speaker 1: Has October recalculated what September did?
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Speaker 4: Yes, we're starting to build a grass buffer now, which
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Speaker 4: is good. Still some of the harder grey stuff maybe
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Speaker 4: hasn't done quite as well. There's definitely still some water
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Speaker 4: logging in some of the paddocks. Obviously the water table
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Speaker 4: must be quite high at the moment, so we've still
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Speaker 4: got lakes and some of the low stuff on the
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Speaker 4: river flats, but By the by, we've started to accumulate
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Speaker 4: quite a bit of grass around us. It's fantastic. We've
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Speaker 4: got our lamb finishing props in, and then we're just
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Speaker 4: working away at the fodder beat at the moment, which
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Speaker 4: is the next job. And then we'll be into Swedes
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Speaker 4: after that, I suppose, and halfway through tailing. Yeah, no,
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Speaker 4: it's good. We had everyone but me get away for
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Speaker 4: the long weekend, which was good, just to get everyone
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Speaker 4: a break, so... Everyone was all around the country, and
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Speaker 4: to be honest, it was two of the nicest days
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Speaker 4: in that long weekend, wasn't it? It was about 25
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Speaker 4: degrees and just absolutely beautiful, so that was quite nice,
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Speaker 4: taking around.
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Speaker 5: The home too.
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Speaker 1: How wet is it there, bearing in mind you had about,
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Speaker 1: what was it, eight snowfalls in September?
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Speaker 4: We are not too bad now. There's definitely where our
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Speaker 4: breeding cows are through the lambing ground and some of
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Speaker 4: the sheep paddocks have still got quite... you know, where
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Speaker 4: the cow's gone through a bit during that wet period.
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Speaker 4: And then our other farm, like, to be honest, we're
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Speaker 4: actually probably enjoying the moisture as it's coming, sort of
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Speaker 4: dried up. Probably not too bad underneath, but it seemed
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Speaker 4: to dry quite quickly on top, which sort of put
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Speaker 4: a bit of a cap on. So you still need
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Speaker 4: moisture to grow grass, but we're hoping the taps don't
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Speaker 4: turn off too much.
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Speaker 2: OK, you look back at the winter that we've had
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Speaker 2: and the spring in particular, we're starting to see some
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Speaker 2: better weather correction over the next couple of days. And
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Speaker 2: do you start to breathe again and realise we've got
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Speaker 2: through that storm and we can look forward to the
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Speaker 2: rest of the year because the arguments there are not
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Speaker 2: the argument, but the case is you've got a pretty
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Speaker 2: good understanding of what needs done before Christmas.
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Speaker 4: You're sort of always looking forward, I guess, because you
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Speaker 4: can't make up... You start missing your timings, you know,
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Speaker 4: in the next job. you can't make that up. So
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Speaker 4: I think we naturally are just very good at that,
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Speaker 4: maybe as people as well. I certainly, you know, you
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Speaker 4: take your reflections from what happened, but we won't be
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Speaker 4: changing too much in terms of our whole farming system.
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Speaker 4: We've sort of been changing a little bit, just a
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Speaker 4: little bit, or up our sleeve for the poorer times,
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Speaker 4: so not so drought or too much rain in the
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Speaker 4: spring or this and that. So we're adjusting that anyway,
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Speaker 4: but yeah, so I think we're just, we're moving on
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Speaker 4: and looking forward and those, um, product prices are looking
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Speaker 4: really good, which is, which is great. So there's always
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Speaker 4: something else to, um, be excited about when we.
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Speaker 5: Get these lambs.
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Speaker 1: The price for red, for red meat in particular, very,
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Speaker 1: very good. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: And this is a level it's got to be though,
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Speaker 4: as I've said before, Andy, this puts us, um, basically
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Speaker 4: puts us on par with dairy farming at the moment.
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Speaker 4: So we have been behind probably for the last 10 years, um,
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Speaker 4: you know, and that's good for everyone, as I said
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Speaker 4: last time, it's good for the country, it's good for
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Speaker 4: everyone involved that we're doing well and then it all
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Speaker 4: goes through the rural sectors and, you know, just to
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Speaker 4: partially touch on the election that everyone's absolutely sick of, but,
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Speaker 4: you know, I think what definitely shows is a massive
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Speaker 4: differentiation between the urban sector and those big cities and
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Speaker 4: the rural guys, because by the by, rurally, I mean,
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Speaker 4: I think things are really positive and, you know, there's
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Speaker 4: a lot of spending happening and You don't have to
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Speaker 4: drive very far to see a lot of biggers on
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Speaker 4: farm or new posts or, you know, all the different
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Speaker 4: rural supply companies. Things are going very well rurally. And then, obviously,
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Speaker 4: those big cities, you know, they're still under a bit
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Speaker 4: of pain and suffering with the cost of living, you know, prices. So, yeah,
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Speaker 4: I think that's sticking out now, isn't it?
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Speaker 1: The argument's there, though.
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Speaker 2: We're in a bubble down here regarding GDP and everything
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Speaker 2: compared to a lot more of the country.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we are, but I still think because we,
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Speaker 4: what are we, about 65% of our exports or something. So,
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Speaker 4: I mean, at the end of the day, it all
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Speaker 4: starts and finishes with us in most ways. So, you know,
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Speaker 4: I guess we'll sort of move through and without triggering people,
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Speaker 4: I guess the other in government did try and really
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Speaker 4: negatively impact the rural sector. And I don't think that,
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Speaker 4: did us any favours for three or four or five
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Speaker 4: years and hopefully now it's popping back up again and
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Speaker 4: I see also with exchange rate like down at 56,
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Speaker 4: 57 of course all our imports and fuel and everything
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Speaker 4: is more expensive but it is very helpful when we're
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Speaker 4: selling things to the rest of the world.
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Speaker 1: Well, that was the big news yesterday. The OCR stayed
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Speaker 1: where it is. It was a very close vote, four
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Speaker 1: against three. But they're just thinking, look, we've just got
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Speaker 1: to rein things in at the moment.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I actually thought that was really good management, Matt.
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Speaker 4: And I know, well, it's nothing to do with politics,
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Speaker 4: but from the Reserve Bank Governor, I thought that was brilliant.
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Speaker 4: I just don't see, when a lot of the inflation's
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Speaker 4: coming from council rates, which by putting the interest rates up,
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Speaker 4: you're not going to change how fast the council's lifting
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Speaker 4: their rates. And then a lot of the stuff was fuel,
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Speaker 4: which is all overseas. There was just a lot of
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Speaker 4: foreign factors. It's not like the housing market's going crazy.
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Speaker 4: It's holding, if not slightly falling. To me, there's not
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Speaker 4: a lot there to warrant putting it massively up, but
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Speaker 4: just from the outside looking in, because we do need
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Speaker 4: to be careful to keep our economy at one piece,
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Speaker 4: because otherwise, in real terms, we're all going backwards.
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Speaker 2: OK, James, based on that, you're in Otago, the ORC's
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Speaker 2: who you work with. Do you think you get good
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Speaker 2: value for your rates?
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Speaker 4: Well, no. It's pretty simple. No, no, we get not
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Speaker 4: a lot. So we get the roads done and....
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Speaker 5: No, look, I....
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Speaker 4: Be a bit careful but yeah there seems to be
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Speaker 4: a lot of trucks on the road with people driving
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Speaker 4: around would be my one comment andy without from the
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Speaker 4: outside looking in um you know there's a lot to
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Speaker 4: be said for a private business in my opinion you
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Speaker 4: know just creates more efficiency and to be frank i've
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Speaker 4: never seen central or local government be more efficient than
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Speaker 4: private business in my whole life so I'll put them
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Speaker 4: both in the same box there.
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Speaker 2: Well, you can be cynical about it and say it's
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Speaker 2: not your money. You can kind of think outside the
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Speaker 2: square a bit, rightly or wrongly.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I guess it's a bit like the lolly
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Speaker 4: scramble on the left at the moment in the election, Andy,
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Speaker 4: because at the end of the day, the money always
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Speaker 4: comes from somewhere, and There's no, well, you can print
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Speaker 4: it like the last one and then you get inflation
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Speaker 4: and end up with a massive borrowing for a country,
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Speaker 4: but that's not the way to run an economy. You know,
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Speaker 4: you still, you need to grow it. If you can
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Speaker 4: grow the pie, you'll always achieve more. I still, once again,
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Speaker 4: without talking too much about individual circumstances, but, you know,
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Speaker 4: like when you've got a resource consent, a hay barn,
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Speaker 4: to me, that's not a good use of council time
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Speaker 4: and money. So anyway, it cost, well, it was actually
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Speaker 4: my money, I suppose, to resource consent a hay barn. But,
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Speaker 4: you know, you've got to ask yourself at what stage
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Speaker 4: and why you're resourcing consenting a hay barn. And that
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Speaker 4: was what I legally had to do.
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Speaker 1: The mind boggles of that one, James. We'll leave it there.
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Speaker 2: And next time we catch up, we might have a
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Speaker 2: bit more certainty about what's happening government-wise, eh?
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Speaker 3: Cheers, Andy.
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Speaker 2: James Edgar, based at Mower Flat. This is the muster next.
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Speaker 2: We're away over to Warrnambool in Victoria. We are catching
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Speaker 2: up with Duncan Leslie, part of the New Zealand Shearing
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Speaker 2: Trans-Tasman team.
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Speaker 4: He said, I.
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Speaker 6: Come from a land of love And for.
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Speaker 1: Me there's no one mentioned love Welcome back to The Muster.
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Speaker 2: We're away over to Warrnambool now in southern Victoria where
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Speaker 2: we catch up with Duncan Leslie. He is part of
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Speaker 2: the New Zealand Trans-Tasman Shearing Team for the first time.
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Speaker 1: Duncan, welcome to The Muster. Good to chat.
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Speaker 3: Good to hear you.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so you're in the New Zealand Shearing Team for
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Speaker 2: the first time. Tomorrow's when you put the black singlet
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Speaker 2: on for the first time as well, mate.
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Speaker 1: Must be a pretty cool moment.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty cool moment, all right. Yeah, it's... I know
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Speaker 3: a lot of sharers kind of dream of doing that
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Speaker 3: and yeah very grateful to be here.
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Speaker 2: Now you won the open sharing title on Marinos at
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Speaker 2: the New Zealand Champs in Alexandra recently so what's been
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Speaker 2: different for you since that occasion since winning in Alexandra
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Speaker 2: what's changed?
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Speaker 3: A little bit of just a mindset change of knowing
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Speaker 3: I can do it now and yeah a little bit
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Speaker 3: of A little change of gear too, using cover comb
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Speaker 3: in Alexandria. We'll be using flat combs over here in Australia. So, yeah,
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Speaker 3: just having to think about what kind of gear we'll
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Speaker 3: be using and whatnot, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Why the change in comb over there? Is that just
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Speaker 2: the way it works?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty much all of Australia using flat comb. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: we just use the winter cover comb in New Zealand
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Speaker 3: while it's colder through the prelims.
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Speaker 1: Because you haven't really got a lot of time to practice.
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Speaker 2: You guys are all practicing today by the sounds of it,
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Speaker 2: ahead of tomorrow kicking off. Does that really come into play,
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Speaker 2: or is it all about being caught up in the
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Speaker 2: moment for you guys?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think having the practice right before your sharing
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Speaker 3: is quite a good thing. You don't want too much
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Speaker 3: time to sit around and think about it, get inside
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Speaker 3: your own head a wee bit too much. So it's
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Speaker 3: good just to share a few, keep your hand going,
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Speaker 3: and find a comb that might run well tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: Now, you're in the team with Jack Fagan and Ty Henderson.
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Speaker 2: Scott Mackay's doing the blade sharing, so all parts of
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Speaker 2: the spectrum are covered as well.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we've got Alan Oldfield as well, blade sharing,
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Speaker 3: and we've got two wall handlers. We've got Fagan and
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Speaker 3: Nyo Henson.
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Speaker 2: It's a real camaraderie thing, I suppose, and the old
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Speaker 2: New Zealand-Australia mentality must come into it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, it is always good to get up
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Speaker 3: and cheer against Australians, try and get one round them, yeah.
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Speaker 2: So what happens for the competition proper tomorrow? What do
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Speaker 2: you guys know about it so far, Duncan?
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Speaker 3: As far as I know, we've got six marinos and
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Speaker 3: six crossbreds, and yeah, we just give it hell.
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Speaker 2: And it's all part of the Australian Championship, so I
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Speaker 2: dare say it's a pretty big occasion.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's all the seven state teams here from Australia
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Speaker 3: that are all competing on the Saturday, but tomorrow during
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Speaker 3: the day is the open any great all the grades
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Speaker 3: anyone can enter. So, yeah, we'll all go tomorrow and
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Speaker 3: the Australians all battle it out on the Saturday.
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Speaker 1: You're based at Warrnambool for the next couple of days.
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Speaker 2: I said to you briefly off air that it's like
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Speaker 2: the Southland of Victoria when you go through there. A
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Speaker 2: lot of dairy heartland, but obviously sheep and beef country
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Speaker 2: as well.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it looked like a lot of dairy as we
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Speaker 3: were coming in. Green grass everywhere. Yeah, very much Southland vibe.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: From what you've seen, it's been not too long. The
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Speaker 2: sharing scene in Australia, it's a big deal though, isn't it?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of teams here competing. There'll be a
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Speaker 3: lot of the best sharers here tomorrow. I think there's
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Speaker 3: no entries in any of the grades left. It's sold out,
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Speaker 3: I guess. Yeah, no spots left. Full heats in every grade.
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Speaker 2: Are you expecting much of a Kiwi contingent in the
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Speaker 2: crowd cheering you guys on?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know there's a few Kiwis around this area
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Speaker 3: at the moment, so there'll be some of.
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Speaker 5: Us here, yep.
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Speaker 1: Awesome.
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Speaker 2: So, and of course, you've got the return leg as
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Speaker 2: well happening at the Golden Shares in early March as well.
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Speaker 1: So this is only phase one as such, is that right?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. Yeah, another test in the first weekend
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Speaker 3: of March, I believe it is, this year. Yeah, so
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Speaker 3: we'll battle it out again there.
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Speaker 1: What do you prefer, sharing marinos or going more into
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Speaker 1: a traditional crossbreed?
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Speaker 3: I probably don't have a preference. I know a lot
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Speaker 3: of people would have a preference one way or the other.
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Speaker 3: But no, as long as they're a nice sheep, I
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Speaker 3: don't mind what they are. As long as they comb, really.
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Speaker 3: As long as you can, yeah, you just get into them.
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Speaker 2: And Duncan, just for yourself, for people who aren't aware,
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Speaker 2: you're sharing background.
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Speaker 1: How long have you been involved for the industry for?
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Speaker 3: I've been sharing a little over 10 years now, full time.
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Speaker 3: Competed for most of that time. around about five years
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Speaker 3: in the Open. And actually, Alexander was my first Open win.
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Speaker 3: So to get straight in the team like that, I'm
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Speaker 3: pretty blown away.
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Speaker 1: Conditions in the wool shed, what are you anticipating?
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Speaker 3: It'll be quite warm, I would say, tomorrow if this
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Speaker 3: cloud burns off. It was warm enough up there now
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Speaker 3: and it's not a hot day. So I'd say it
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Speaker 3: could be quite warm tomorrow. It's going to be mid-20s,
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Speaker 3: the forecast is saying. So sheep will be warm and
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Speaker 3: very good shearing, I'd say.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we can only dream of that for Southland for
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Speaker 2: the next couple of days. Hey, good on you, Duncan,
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Speaker 2: and all the very best for the Trans-Tasman test kicking
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Speaker 2: off tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for your time.
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Speaker 3: No, awesome.
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Speaker 7: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Duncan Leslie, part of the New.
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Speaker 2: Zealand sharing team in the Trans-Tasman competition with the Aussies,
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Speaker 2: which is happening there in mighty Warrnambool in Victoria. This
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Speaker 2: is the muster up next. We are catching up with
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Speaker 2: Geordie Yead based at Riverton.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the muster.
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Speaker 2: We're away over to Riverton, the Riviera of the South,
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Speaker 2: and catching up with Geordie Yead, sheep, beef and dairy
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Speaker 2: farm owner over that way.
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Speaker 1: Geordie, good afternoon. How are you?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm good, Andy.
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Speaker 7: How's things with you?
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Speaker 2: Well, if that wind would Bugger off, for want of
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Speaker 2: a better word, it would be a lot better. It's
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Speaker 2: been pretty nippy over the past couple of days. That
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Speaker 2: wind chill is just horrific.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, no, it's really caught off to what we had.
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Speaker 7: We sort of got spoiled there for sort of two
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Speaker 7: and a half, three weeks. And, yeah, no, it's just
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Speaker 7: a bit extreme river here in the south here today.
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Speaker 7: We've got Forrest Gump sideways rain.
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Speaker 1: Forrest Gump sideways rain. Haven't heard that one before. It
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Speaker 1: must be pretty full on.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it is.
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Speaker 1: It is.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's like a lambing weather in a water blaster, really.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: That is one of the great descriptions, lambing weather with
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Speaker 1: a water blaster.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2: God.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, no, it can bloody bugger off. It sort of
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Speaker 7: seems to be the last three lambings, and I mean,
18:15
Speaker 7: this year was probably more extreme with the wind, and
18:17
Speaker 7: it probably didn't, it lacked a bit of windshield or
18:19
Speaker 7: it has in the past, which has made it a
18:21
Speaker 7: wee bit better, but it was certainly the wettest.
18:24
Speaker 1: You have had over 500 mils there over the spring
18:27
Speaker 1: cycle so far. Dare I say it, how have things
18:30
Speaker 1: dried up?
18:31
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, they have dried up reasonably well, but, you know,
18:33
Speaker 7: the last four or five days, you know, we're back
18:37
Speaker 7: over that 100 again for October. We're only, you know,
18:39
Speaker 7: we nearly got two-thirds of October over and only about
18:42
Speaker 7: 40 mils. So, yeah, things have dried up really well.
18:45
Speaker 7: Got into the cow ground and got all that ripped
18:47
Speaker 7: well ahead of time. I got the last of that
18:50
Speaker 7: done in the middle of last week, so they're all done,
18:52
Speaker 7: and I didn't get into them until about the 4th
18:54
Speaker 7: of November last year when I looked it up. So, yeah,
18:57
Speaker 7: so no... It's quite good to be advanced for that.
18:59
Speaker 7: I've got some drains unblocked, just a bit of maintenance.
19:02
Speaker 7: And then, yeah, probably in the next week or so,
19:05
Speaker 7: we'll do some tailing. The contract tailers will come in. And,
19:08
Speaker 7: you know, everything's looking not too bad. But, yeah, it'll
19:10
Speaker 7: be nice if the sun comes back again.
19:13
Speaker 2: Well, sunshine is underrated. When you do get it, it's fantastic.
19:16
Speaker 2: And October's been the month that has provided it.
19:20
Speaker 7: Yeah, it really provided, compared to this October last year,
19:23
Speaker 7: sort of maybe, you know, we had a good August,
19:26
Speaker 7: a little better August last year and we had a
19:28
Speaker 7: crap one this year, so maybe they swapped around a
19:30
Speaker 7: wee bit. But yeah, no, October's been better than I
19:32
Speaker 7: would have said probably average, particularly for us over here anyway.
19:35
Speaker 1: But you're talking about wind damage yet again.
19:39
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I was just doing a round again this
19:40
Speaker 7: morning and the trees are going back the other way,
19:42
Speaker 7: but yeah, that was fair fierce last night. I don't
19:45
Speaker 7: know whether they've come down last night or, yeah, no,
19:47
Speaker 7: it's just losing all power, so I'm going to have
19:49
Speaker 7: to go and see. that this afternoon but yeah it
19:52
Speaker 7: just seems to be endless whether it's these fronts hitting
19:54
Speaker 7: one another the wind just getting very strong I think
20:00
Speaker 7: I was sort of holding my breath for Monday's weather
20:02
Speaker 7: thinking was that going to be round two of last year.
20:05
Speaker 2: I was coming back from Te Arau, I was in
20:07
Speaker 2: the farm you'd had a load on, and going over
20:10
Speaker 2: the centre hill there, I mean, it's a case of sparking.
20:13
Speaker 1: The steam engine. I think I can, I think I can,
20:15
Speaker 1: I know I can.
20:16
Speaker 2: You're going to get up that hill eventually, but, yeah,
20:19
Speaker 2: you're crawling at about 45, 50 clicks to get up there.
20:22
Speaker 1: It was pretty ferocious.
20:24
Speaker 7: Yeah, we had been up at my mother-in-law's 80th in Christchurch,
20:27
Speaker 7: and we were coming back in on the airplane, and
20:29
Speaker 7: the north-west coming out of Christchurch probably led more bumps
20:32
Speaker 7: to the plane than landing, but it was a bit
20:34
Speaker 7: of very... Quite a hairy landing to land in the Macargo.
20:37
Speaker 7: We're all quite glad to hit the ground and not
20:38
Speaker 7: have to do round two of it anyway.
20:40
Speaker 1: So how are the stock faring at the moment anyway?
20:43
Speaker 1: Things have started correcting themselves weather-wise. You're getting a bit
20:46
Speaker 1: of a cover base around you. Are they starting to
20:49
Speaker 1: pick up?
20:50
Speaker 7: Yeah, they are starting to pick up, but there's still,
20:52
Speaker 7: you know, there's that bottom end of the lambs that
20:54
Speaker 7: are probably never going to recover. You know, I think
20:55
Speaker 7: there's still going to be that bottom end all the
20:57
Speaker 7: way through going round there, you know. It's probably, it's
21:01
Speaker 7: not 10%, but there's certainly some dregs there that... They've
21:04
Speaker 7: been challenged all the way along, and I suppose it's
21:06
Speaker 7: just the wet conditions. Well, I'm not picking up any
21:09
Speaker 7: dead ones. They're still there, but they're not thriving like
21:13
Speaker 7: we'd normally love in the south in spring. But I
21:16
Speaker 7: suppose there's still a few numbers there, which is probably positive.
21:19
Speaker 7: There's still a lot of ewes of twins and the
21:21
Speaker 7: odd set of triplets. But, yeah, sunshine they need, vitamin S.
21:26
Speaker 2: Are you going to flick those tail landers off at
21:28
Speaker 2: weaning and the likes based on the season and a
21:31
Speaker 2: bit of the unknown.
21:32
Speaker 1: Although prices could correct by then, but I don't know.
21:36
Speaker 1: What's your thoughts? What do you do there?
21:38
Speaker 7: Yeah, I sort of cross that bridge when I come.
21:39
Speaker 7: If I'm at the dairy farm, there's an opportunity cost
21:42
Speaker 7: of every blade of grass, so you sort of... tie
21:45
Speaker 7: up everything um last year i didn't have a bottom
21:48
Speaker 7: end at all and they just sort of come up
21:49
Speaker 7: so you know certainly evaluate how big that bottom end
21:52
Speaker 7: is that certainly um if someone wants to finish them
21:54
Speaker 7: off there's money for them and it's money for us
21:57
Speaker 7: but uh you know the type of discussion yesterday but
22:01
Speaker 7: we'll say a bit of land that you know store
22:02
Speaker 7: lands looking around about that six dollars well that's you
22:05
Speaker 7: know 30 kilo land it's 180 dollars.
22:07
Speaker 1: You're not going to say no to that No, no, no, no.
22:11
Speaker 7: Definitely, if you're sipping that off not long after weaning,
22:14
Speaker 7: it's a pretty good coin, and then you've got an
22:16
Speaker 7: opportunity cost to the rest of your grass. It's going
22:19
Speaker 7: to be a $ 10 pass to pay out on the
22:20
Speaker 7: dairy side of things as well.
22:21
Speaker 1: So what are you budgeting on for lambs this year, Geordie?
22:25
Speaker 7: Well, I've been probably conservative. I'm thinking we might have
22:28
Speaker 7: come back $ 30, $ 40 on last year's, but the way
22:32
Speaker 7: it is tracking, we're probably looking and may have another
22:35
Speaker 7: two in front of it, but yeah. I don't see
22:38
Speaker 7: $ 2 dropping out of it between now and Christmas, put
22:40
Speaker 7: it that way anyway. And Easter being early, it's probably
22:43
Speaker 7: not going to drop much out of it until the
22:44
Speaker 7: end of January, in my thoughts anyway.
22:47
Speaker 1: The old Easter contracts come into play then as well.
22:50
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, that's true too. Yeah, that'll be interesting to see.
22:53
Speaker 7: But I mean, saying that, you know, I was talking
22:56
Speaker 7: to Francis Cousin last week and they supply silver ferns
23:01
Speaker 7: there in Methven. and they're having to truck their lambs
23:04
Speaker 7: down to Finnegan because Pariora's shut. So, you know, there
23:08
Speaker 7: is a shortage of lambs out there, so where there's
23:09
Speaker 7: going to be a bit of competition, it might hold
23:11
Speaker 7: the price up along the way as well.
23:12
Speaker 1: When does Pariora open?
23:14
Speaker 7: I would have thought it would probably be open any time,
23:16
Speaker 7: but in saying that, you know, who knows? Because, you know,
23:18
Speaker 7: I would have thought, yes, funny enough, these lambs went
23:20
Speaker 7: from the Townhill Basin to Methven and then back to Finnegan.
23:23
Speaker 7: So there nearly is more toad than I've been for
23:26
Speaker 7: the last three or four months.
23:27
Speaker 1: Those lambs need a passport to get through the provinces.
23:31
Speaker 1: Very well-travelled individuals.
23:33
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, it was actually quite a good fact,
23:35
Speaker 7: the beef of the last week, is that there's only 7%
23:38
Speaker 7: of lambs leave Southland. We are, you know, there is
23:41
Speaker 7: some exported, but we, you know, we kill something like 92%, 93%
23:45
Speaker 7: of our lambs we produce in this region. So that
23:48
Speaker 7: was quite a satisfying, well, good fact to hear.
23:52
Speaker 2: That's a really good fact, but it's good to know
23:54
Speaker 2: that the way that Canterbury, with the way their seasons work,
23:58
Speaker 2: it's a backstop effectively as well, if needed.
24:01
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, it's a good backstop for a lot of
24:02
Speaker 7: us around here. You know, we often, if they're doing
24:05
Speaker 7: pretty well, it's an opening for us to unload lambs
24:07
Speaker 7: if we want to. And, you know, they do well
24:09
Speaker 7: out and we do well out too. So, you know,
24:11
Speaker 7: it's certainly, you know, they've had pretty good seasons and
24:14
Speaker 7: they don't seem to be having that El Nino that
24:16
Speaker 7: everybody was saying was going to come. Yeah, if I
24:18
Speaker 7: don't know, I think it's just a load of crap,
24:20
Speaker 7: to me anyway.
24:22
Speaker 1: I'll ask you that in six weeks, eh?
24:25
Speaker 2: Yeah.
24:26
Speaker 5: Yeah, we were just up.
24:27
Speaker 7: There the weekend. It was a hot, stinker weekend, but
24:29
Speaker 7: they got seven mils, they said, on Monday night. So,
24:32
Speaker 7: you know, that just kept things properly going. I thought
24:34
Speaker 7: the irrigator was going to need turned on, but there
24:36
Speaker 7: wasn't too many irrigators going yet.
24:38
Speaker 2: In the beef and lamb side of life, the AGM
24:40
Speaker 2: yesterday at the Riversdale.
24:42
Speaker 1: Pub, how did it go?
24:44
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, it was at the Riversdale Community Centre just.
24:47
Speaker 1: Across the road.
24:47
Speaker 5: Oh, Community Centre.
24:48
Speaker 4: Oh, right.
24:48
Speaker 1: You just think pub when you think Riversdale for some reason.
24:51
Speaker 7: Oh. So, no, we had our farmer... meeting to start
24:55
Speaker 7: off with and we elected our new chairman well she
24:59
Speaker 7: was already the sitting chairman Courtney Nimmo and we've got
25:02
Speaker 7: Robert Young as our vice chair now and then when
25:05
Speaker 7: I moved on the afternoon to our AGM and that
25:09
Speaker 7: was open to the public we had probably about 20-ish
25:13
Speaker 7: farmers Joseph Mooney business people from the Alliance you know
25:18
Speaker 7: other businesses people there and it went along pretty well
25:21
Speaker 7: and then it finished off the day with the Roberts
25:24
Speaker 7: to speak to us, the winners of the Gordon Stevenson
25:26
Speaker 7: trophy and they spoke really well and gave us an
25:29
Speaker 7: indication of how they're very worthy winners.
25:32
Speaker 2: That would have been fascinating to listen to. I should
25:34
Speaker 2: get them on for a chat sooner than later, just
25:36
Speaker 2: based on what's changed in their operation since their success.
25:39
Speaker 7: Oh yes, they haven't to be fair, they haven't had
25:42
Speaker 7: a lot of speaking engagements and you know, they are
25:44
Speaker 7: marvellous speakers and the journey they've come from Taranaki to
25:48
Speaker 7: West Otago from Deering to now Deer and how they've
25:51
Speaker 7: developed their farm and you know, the Dunn Farm succession
25:54
Speaker 7: and the journey it's gone along, it's certainly something that
25:57
Speaker 7: probably the media probably could be tapping into a bit
25:59
Speaker 7: more because they're great ambassadors, you would call.
26:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's something the media will tap into. Geordie, thanks
26:07
Speaker 1: for your time as always.
26:09
Speaker 7: No, good as gold, Andy. Let the sun come back.
26:13
Speaker 1: Out again. Geordie Yead, interesting correlation about farmers coming from
26:17
Speaker 1: the Naki down to South or to West Otago for
26:19
Speaker 1: that matter as well.
26:21
Speaker 2: Hello, Chanel Purser, if you're listening. Jackie Chamberlain is up next, coincidentally,
26:26
Speaker 2: in the Beef and Lamb slot.
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26:42
Speaker 2: Jackie Chamberlain joins us this afternoon from West Range Station,
26:46
Speaker 2: ahead of the Beef and Lamb New Zealand Virtually Beefing Up.
26:49
Speaker 1: Profitability Field Day. What a title.
26:52
Speaker 2: Happening over at West Range Station, all about virtual fencing technology,
26:56
Speaker 2: which seems to be one of the buzzwords of 2026
27:00
Speaker 2: and just getting bigger. Jackie, good afternoon and welcome to
27:03
Speaker 2: the muster.
27:04
Speaker 1: Good to chat.
27:05
Speaker 6: Yeah, good to be on. Thanks, Andy.
27:08
Speaker 1: Firstly, West Range.
27:09
Speaker 2: Station, give us a bit of an idea about your
27:11
Speaker 2: farming operation there where you're based.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, so we're a fourth generation farm. predominantly beef finishing property. Yeah,
27:20
Speaker 8: we aim to finish around 3,000 bulls each year and
27:24
Speaker 8: it's various of age groups right from R2s through to
27:29
Speaker 8: rising three-year-olds as well.
27:31
Speaker 1: Good time to be in cattle.
27:33
Speaker 8: Yes, it is a very good time. Yeah, we've persisted
27:36
Speaker 8: with it for a few years. We think back to
27:39
Speaker 8: those early COVID days and the schedules were pretty low
27:42
Speaker 8: and Yeah, stock prices were pretty high. So it's nice,
27:46
Speaker 8: I suppose, for all farming classes of stock to be
27:49
Speaker 8: in a high at the moment.
27:50
Speaker 2: So how would you describe the spring? It's been tough
27:52
Speaker 2: in a lot of parts of the region. How did
27:54
Speaker 2: you fare?
27:56
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think we definitely probably got off a wee
27:59
Speaker 8: bit lighter than some other areas in Southland. But, I mean,
28:02
Speaker 8: you always say someone's doing it worse than yourself. But, yeah...
28:07
Speaker 8: we were able to probably manage our parshas a lot better,
28:11
Speaker 8: and that's probably all down to these virtual collars to
28:13
Speaker 8: be fair. We were able to kind of keep them
28:15
Speaker 8: moving without doing too much damage. So some days we
28:19
Speaker 8: could have been shipping them two or three times a
28:20
Speaker 8: day just to help protect the grass underfoot.
28:24
Speaker 1: How long have you had virtual collars on the cattle?
28:28
Speaker 8: We put our first collars on, we started with 700
28:31
Speaker 8: back in August last year, and then we purchased another...
28:35
Speaker 8: $ 500 late summer and then we purchased a few more
28:43
Speaker 8: to bring us up to $ 1, 700 going into winter.
28:46
Speaker 1: So have they been a game changer? Would that be
28:48
Speaker 1: a fair description?
28:50
Speaker 8: Yeah, 100%. Typically the previous two collars we were running
28:55
Speaker 8: a bit of a techno system down one end of
28:58
Speaker 8: the property and one person could have been looking after
29:02
Speaker 8: close to 30 mobs So we kind of had a
29:05
Speaker 8: bit of a shifting regime every two days, but that
29:08
Speaker 8: didn't necessarily mean that the grass had been grazed at
29:10
Speaker 8: proper levels. And so, yeah, come summertime, the grass pretty
29:15
Speaker 8: much had lost quality just because we weren't able to
29:17
Speaker 8: manage it as good as what we could. And putting
29:20
Speaker 8: up polywire fences every day over 30 mobs just wasn't
29:24
Speaker 8: the best use of our time. So having these collars
29:27
Speaker 8: has just meant that we've got really consistent residuals, which
29:32
Speaker 8: means the quality that's coming back is just way better
29:36
Speaker 8: than what we've ever imagined. And yeah, stock are looking
29:41
Speaker 8: way better and doing way better.
29:42
Speaker 5: Because of it.
29:43
Speaker 2: And it's not that many years ago, thinking back, Jackie,
29:46
Speaker 2: that techno systems are pretty much en vogue for a
29:49
Speaker 2: lot of beef farmers.
29:50
Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, I know. Yeah, I suppose that was moving
29:54
Speaker 8: from big paddocks down to feeding them little and often was, yeah,
29:59
Speaker 8: very beneficial for bulls especially. But then we've kind of
30:03
Speaker 8: stepped it up another level and had these collars. And yeah,
30:07
Speaker 8: cows are creatures of habit. So when they know they're
30:09
Speaker 8: getting shifted at the same time every day and they're
30:12
Speaker 8: getting pretty much all they can eat in full allocation, yeah,
30:15
Speaker 8: they've got no real excuses not to be going fast.
30:18
Speaker 1: The goal one day to have everything wearing wearables, is
30:21
Speaker 1: that viable?
30:23
Speaker 9: Yep, I think so.
30:24
Speaker 8: Yeah, even just with having collars, on the likes of
30:29
Speaker 8: winter crop and especially kale this year. Essentially collars, you
30:34
Speaker 8: could probably argue they were two extra labour units, which
30:36
Speaker 8: we'd normally have to find. And yeah, being able to
30:40
Speaker 8: just pretty much move them whenever you like. So it
30:43
Speaker 8: would be nice to have a few more collars to
30:46
Speaker 8: enable us to have all of our cattle collared.
30:49
Speaker 4: All at once.
30:50
Speaker 2: What's the biggest difference you've noticed around pasture utilisation, for example?
30:56
Speaker 8: Well, because you kind of, I guess instead of going
30:59
Speaker 8: to a paddock to shift the mob, we're probably going
31:02
Speaker 8: to the paddock once they've been there. We're probably looking
31:06
Speaker 8: at what they're leaving behind and what they've got in
31:08
Speaker 8: front of them. And it's just, I suppose, a different mindset, really,
31:12
Speaker 8: that if we can graze it to that nice, say,
31:16
Speaker 8: 1500 cover for round figures, the grass just responds a
31:20
Speaker 8: lot quicker and after being grazed. It's not under that
31:23
Speaker 8: pressure if you were to graze it a lot lower
31:26
Speaker 8: or leave too much on it. So, yeah, it's just
31:30
Speaker 8: using the technology and the knowledge that's been around for years,
31:34
Speaker 8: I suppose, but on a greater scale.
31:36
Speaker 2: Okay, Jackie, the field day that's coming up at your
31:39
Speaker 2: place on Tuesday, November the 17th, what can people expect?
31:43
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's just a really good chance. We'll just have
31:46
Speaker 8: a bit of a drive around and go and see
31:48
Speaker 8: a few mobs with the collars on. and basically just,
31:52
Speaker 8: I guess, explain to people how we're using them in
31:55
Speaker 8: a finishing sense. There's a lot of people that are
31:57
Speaker 8: putting them on their breeding cows and stuff like that. So, yeah,
32:01
Speaker 8: and we have also got the in-paddock weigh system as well.
32:05
Speaker 8: So you look at a mob that's got the virtual
32:09
Speaker 8: collars and the weighing system and how we're using that
32:12
Speaker 8: to make decisions around weighing and kettle after slaughter and
32:17
Speaker 8: that kind of thing.
32:18
Speaker 1: Tell me a bit more about that, about the weighing
32:20
Speaker 1: system as such.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, so the Empatic weigh system is essentially just a wee,
32:26
Speaker 6: almost half-motorbike trailer size, and the cattle are enticed into
32:31
Speaker 6: this wee crush, I suppose you would say, and they
32:35
Speaker 6: put their two front feet on the scales, and it
32:40
Speaker 6: scans the EID tag, and Yeah.
32:44
Speaker 8: Gallagher have obviously worked out some sort of formula based
32:47
Speaker 8: on their age and weight range, and it estimates their
32:50
Speaker 8: total body weight. So it's pretty cool for us, especially
32:54
Speaker 8: when we're coming to sending cattle off to the works.
32:56
Speaker 8: We can kind of figure out how many, you know, weight,
33:01
Speaker 8: up to weight, before we have to go and get
33:03
Speaker 8: that mob in. And that saves a lot of time too.
33:06
Speaker 8: You might get a mob that has 10 works ready
33:08
Speaker 8: instead of the mob that's only got two ready in it.
33:10
Speaker 8: So that just creates more efficiencies just like that.
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Speaker 2: Now, people, I suppose, get in touch with yourselves to
33:16
Speaker 2: learn a bit more about Beef and Lamb.
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Speaker 1: They've got that on their website as well, all the deets.
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Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, if you're keen to come along, jump on
33:24
Speaker 8: the Beef and Lamb website and register so we know
33:28
Speaker 8: how many people to expect on the day. But, yeah,
33:30
Speaker 8: it'll just be a good chance for the ones that are,
33:32
Speaker 8: I suppose, sitting on the fence about virtual collars to
33:35
Speaker 8: see them in action. And, yeah, I mean, if people
33:38
Speaker 8: have got collars and they see you, see different ways
33:41
Speaker 8: that that could be done too. We're always open to
33:44
Speaker 8: learning new ways and just to do things better as well.
33:48
Speaker 1: Good on you, Jackie. Thanks for your time on the
33:50
Speaker 1: muster this afternoon. It's been pretty interesting.
33:52
Speaker 6: Yeah, awesome.
33:53
Speaker 8: Thanks for that, Andy.
33:54
Speaker 4: Don't be a bad boy, Johnny.
33:56
Speaker 2: Jackie Chamberlain of West Range Station regarding.
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Speaker 2: The Virtual College Open Day, well, it is an open day.
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Speaker 2: It's a field day happening there on November the 17th.
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Speaker 1: Got technology, some cool things going on, eh? Mark Kelly's
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Speaker 1: up next. Bit of sport to wrap up the day.
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34:31
Speaker 2: Man at work, that's the music this afternoon. You're listening
34:34
Speaker 2: to the muster on Hokanui. Mark Kelly is producer for
34:37
Speaker 2: Newstalk ZB. Joins us this afternoon, MK, good afternoon. Super
34:41
Speaker 2: Rugby Squad, it's a bit announced in the last day
34:43
Speaker 2: or so. They've kind of flown under the radar, but
34:46
Speaker 2: I suppose comparing Super Rugby to the MPC, which you're
34:51
Speaker 2: very passionate about, it's a bit of a different comparison,
34:55
Speaker 2: I suppose.
34:56
Speaker 9: Yeah, g'day Andy, thanks for having me. Yeah, it's a
34:58
Speaker 9: bit of a funny one, right? So the MPC only finished, well,
35:01
Speaker 9: a matter of five sleeps ago, four sleeps ago, and
35:03
Speaker 9: the Super Rugby teams are out. I don't really know
35:06
Speaker 9: why they had to be announced this week of all weeks,
35:10
Speaker 9: but it still was a bit of fun sort of
35:12
Speaker 9: going through each team list and seeing where Bay of
35:15
Speaker 9: Guinea Steamers, I'm sure you did the same for your
35:17
Speaker 9: Southland Stags, who's playing where. But yeah, they're trying to
35:22
Speaker 9: get some hype for the competition, which... they definitely struggle with,
35:26
Speaker 9: and with the summer of cricket just getting underway as well,
35:30
Speaker 9: classic NZR just always trying to stay in the headlines.
35:33
Speaker 2: 16-odd rounds of Super Rugby next year, it's going to
35:36
Speaker 2: be a lot. Are they just trying to stay relevant
35:38
Speaker 2: in the news at the moment on the back of
35:41
Speaker 2: the MPC?
35:42
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'd say strike with the iron top sort of thing,
35:45
Speaker 9: but it's a competition that struggles where you kind of
35:48
Speaker 9: can already... almost right down the four teams that are
35:51
Speaker 9: going to be in the semifinals. The Aussie teams struggle.
35:55
Speaker 9: We know that, I hope for your guys' sake, down
35:59
Speaker 9: the south, the Landers get a bit better. But you
36:02
Speaker 9: kind of know it's going to be the Chiefs, Crusaders,
36:05
Speaker 9: Hurricanes and Blues again. Maybe a Brumbies might slide into
36:08
Speaker 9: that fourth spot. But yeah, it's a competition that definitely struggles.
36:11
Speaker 9: And I don't really know how you fix it, to
36:13
Speaker 9: be honest with you.
36:14
Speaker 2: But I tell you what is going crazy at the
36:16
Speaker 2: moment is this Rugby League World Cup, although it is
36:19
Speaker 2: very long.
36:21
Speaker 9: Yes, yeah, and there's been some big blowouts, but I
36:26
Speaker 9: like to go back to that because people aren't enjoying
36:29
Speaker 9: the big scores and whatnot. But it's kind of every
36:32
Speaker 9: World Cup. Rugby Union World Cup, we smashed, what was it,
36:35
Speaker 9: Spain or Portugal early on in the tournament in the
36:38
Speaker 9: last instalment in, what, 2023, and it's It's good. They've
36:42
Speaker 9: got to develop in the game to get it there,
36:45
Speaker 9: and it is awesome to see the Tongas, the Samoas,
36:48
Speaker 9: even Fiji's quite competitive. It's a cracking World Cup, and
36:53
Speaker 9: we've got one more round-robin round, and then into the
36:57
Speaker 9: semis and finals, but it should be an absolute bum-burn
37:00
Speaker 9: of those semifinals with probably us, Australia, Samoa, and Tonga
37:05
Speaker 9: in the semifinals, which should be absolutely fantastic.
37:09
Speaker 2: Rugby leagues had quite a bit of traction after the
37:12
Speaker 2: WAS season. Down here, they're trying to get all they have.
37:14
Speaker 2: They've got a kids' competition up and running at the moment,
37:17
Speaker 2: and it's a competition next year that has just kind
37:20
Speaker 2: of seen, I don't know, the Warriors' movement just seems
37:22
Speaker 2: to be on the rise.
37:24
Speaker 9: Yeah, and it's success, right? Kiwis love a winning sports team,
37:28
Speaker 9: and if the Warriors can keep that up and go
37:31
Speaker 9: a couple further games more into the competition, that would
37:33
Speaker 9: be great, and There's a lot of talk about that, what,
37:36
Speaker 9: 20th team being played out of the Christchurch News Stadium,
37:40
Speaker 9: which would be fantastic. But yeah, and Kiwis and all
37:44
Speaker 9: around the country, they love a rugby, just a World
37:47
Speaker 9: Cup in general. We got behind you all once earlier
37:50
Speaker 9: on this year at the Football World Cup when we
37:52
Speaker 9: had really no hope of doing anything at that one.
37:54
Speaker 9: But when it comes to the rugby league, there's a sniff.
37:57
Speaker 9: We've won it a couple of times. It's been a
37:59
Speaker 9: while since we've won it last, but I think this
38:01
Speaker 9: year we can definitely, we're almost favourites.
38:04
Speaker 5: I think.
38:05
Speaker 2: The T20 series between the Black Caps and India, the
38:08
Speaker 2: juggernaut that is Indian cricket, rolls into Eden Park tomorrow night,
38:12
Speaker 2: or onto Eden Park, that should be. Based on what
38:15
Speaker 2: we've seen at the Cageton, I reckon we need to
38:17
Speaker 2: ban international sport in Wellington. That just continues a lot
38:20
Speaker 2: of frustration in that stadia for New Zealand.
38:24
Speaker 9: Yeah, and I see the CEO of the Cageton came
38:29
Speaker 9: out and spoke to Sports Talk and New South ZB
38:31
Speaker 9: last night, and had all sorts of excuses, and it
38:35
Speaker 9: is tough. What was it, a Tuesday night?
38:38
Speaker 1: Eight o'clock on a Tuesday on a school night, yeah.
38:40
Speaker 9: And I get it, and it's a day after Labour weekend,
38:42
Speaker 9: so it was definitely, the odds were stacked against them,
38:46
Speaker 9: but you saw it in Christchurch when they had the
38:48
Speaker 9: first game, I believe it was on a Wednesday or
38:50
Speaker 9: a Thursday. It was still a sellout. Auckland's obviously going
38:53
Speaker 9: to have 40-odd thousand tomorrow, Eden Park, but it does
38:56
Speaker 9: help it's a Friday. It'll be fascinating to see what
38:58
Speaker 9: Hamilton's like this coming weekend. I think the fifth and
39:01
Speaker 9: final T20s on a Sunday. But yeah, they look poor,
39:04
Speaker 9: and it never helps them with those bright yellow seats,
39:07
Speaker 9: so you can work out how many people are kind
39:09
Speaker 9: of there. But it's sad to see Wellington sports fans,
39:15
Speaker 9: and they struggle now to even sell out the All Blacks,
39:18
Speaker 9: which normally would be, well, you could almost guarantee that
39:22
Speaker 9: that would be a sellout. But I get that a
39:25
Speaker 9: lot of people are losing jobs down there, and they've
39:27
Speaker 9: got a cost-of-living crisis at the moment. But I did
39:33
Speaker 9: look it up and it was only $ 35 a ticket,
39:35
Speaker 9: which is not too bad for international sport. You get
39:38
Speaker 9: a good four and a half hours of entertainment out
39:40
Speaker 9: of it. But you throw in a couple of bottles
39:43
Speaker 9: of hot chips and a couple of Frosties as well.
39:45
Speaker 9: It turns out to an expensive night, doesn't it?
39:47
Speaker 2: Logic would suggest you go and play at the Basin Reserve,
39:50
Speaker 2: but unfortunately, due to the juggernaut that is the BCCI,
39:53
Speaker 2: that time zone is going to be the issue.
39:55
Speaker 1: Basin would have been the perfect location.
39:57
Speaker 9: Yeah, no lights and all that sort of stuff. So, yeah,
40:00
Speaker 9: I get it, but you still think they will be
40:02
Speaker 9: able to get 25,000, 26,000 people there. But, yeah, I
40:08
Speaker 9: half understand where the Caketon and the Wellingtonians are coming
40:11
Speaker 9: from because it is tough Tuesday night. starting off the
40:15
Speaker 9: work week as well after a long weekend. Probably people
40:18
Speaker 9: have gone away that weekend, spent some extra dosh that
40:21
Speaker 9: they didn't need to, and they couldn't sort of go
40:23
Speaker 9: to the cricket. But it did look poor, and it
40:25
Speaker 9: sort of took away from what was a very, very
40:28
Speaker 9: impressive game of cricket by particularly the Indian batsmen, wasn't it?
40:33
Speaker 2: That Indian top order, or even the middle order, is
40:36
Speaker 2: something else to behold, and the way they just took
40:39
Speaker 2: us apart, I mean, 100 off runs off five overs,
40:42
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter who you are, let alone an international attack,
40:45
Speaker 2: that's a stick cricket coming to life.
40:47
Speaker 9: No, no, exactly that, and I said that to somebody,
40:50
Speaker 9: exactly that, stick cricket, because I remember you always tried
40:52
Speaker 9: to get 50 off the first two overs going 25.
40:54
Speaker 1: Because you could, yeah.
40:55
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, and it was, yeah, they broke the power
40:57
Speaker 9: play record for an international T20 cricket game by four runs.
41:03
Speaker 9: I think they got 119 or something like that. The
41:05
Speaker 9: next best was 115, and It was impressive. They do
41:10
Speaker 9: come out very aggressive. They swing at everything. They honestly
41:15
Speaker 9: could score 300, 350 at Eden Park, it feels like,
41:18
Speaker 9: this weekend, particularly when we play in those New Zealand stadiums.
41:24
Speaker 9: They are short boundaries, and I think the Indians are
41:26
Speaker 9: loving it at the moment, particularly, as you said, that
41:29
Speaker 9: top order is very, very impressive and making our bowlers
41:32
Speaker 9: look very ordinary.
41:34
Speaker 1: Good on you, Mark Kelly. You always appreciate your time
41:36
Speaker 1: on the muster. Go the Stags.
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Speaker 9: Go the Bay. Thanks, Andy. Have a great week, mate.
42:01
Speaker 1: The podcast will be up shortly, thanks to iHeartRadio. We'll
42:04
Speaker 1: leave it there for the afternoon.
42:05
Speaker 2: I'm Andy Muir. The muster is proudly brought to you
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Speaker 2: by Peters Genetics. See what this weather does this afternoon.
42:10
Speaker 2: Might get a little bit cool in places.
42:13
Speaker 1: Catch you tomorrow. Hey, well, all right, sir. Here we
42:17
Speaker 1: go there and what are they going to get for?
42:19
Speaker 2: PGG writes and once again presents stock selling action, which
42:22
Speaker 2: occurred at the Charlton sale yards this morning.
42:25
Speaker 1: Dave Morrison's our man on the ground. Teagle, good afternoon.
42:28
Speaker 1: Prices sounded pretty good.
42:31
Speaker 5: Afternoon, Andy. Yep, we've had another good day here at Charlton.
42:34
Speaker 5: Just start with the lambs, Andy. The very best peen
42:38
Speaker 5: today was a line of Texel lambs from Hugh Gardine
42:42
Speaker 5: at Waikaka, the Yesamont stud, and they made $ 500. Absolutely
42:47
Speaker 5: something lambs. The next tier down was sort of $ 450
42:50
Speaker 5: to $ 480, obviously once again of Hugh's. And then we're
42:55
Speaker 5: into the medium lambs, sort of eating from $ 280 to $ 300, $ 310.
43:00
Speaker 5: and then down into the early 200s for the wee
43:03
Speaker 5: tailwind lambs. So, yeah, very good sale there again today.
43:06
Speaker 5: The numbers are dropping. Into the mutton, the best of
43:12
Speaker 5: the ewes were $ 320. Medium ewes, sort of $ 240 to $ 270,
43:16
Speaker 5: with the life of the ewes of $ 180 to $ 190. But, again,
43:19
Speaker 5: just numbers easing there, but very, very strong. One line
43:23
Speaker 5: of ewes and lambs all counted, Andy, and they made $ 162.
43:26
Speaker 3: And.
43:29
Speaker 5: That just wraps it up there, Andy. Just like to
43:31
Speaker 5: mention also tomorrow, Castle Rock, tomorrow morning, 10 o'clock, approximately
43:36
Speaker 5: 800 to 900 straight beef yearlings in two-year-old kettles. So
43:39
Speaker 5: if you're looking for a kettle with the grass growing,
43:41
Speaker 5: get in there and get there tomorrow morning and buy up.
43:44
Speaker 5: That wraps it up.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't young Elliot Warrender who sold those lambs this
43:48
Speaker 2: morning by chance, the up-and-coming young buck.
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Speaker 4: It was.
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Speaker 1: It was. There we go.
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Speaker 5: He did a very good job.
43:56
Speaker 9: He did a very good job of it, too.
43:57
Speaker 1: Well, be careful, David. I will.
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Speaker 8: Righto.
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Speaker 1: Good on you.