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The Muster Full Show: 04/11/26 · The Muster on Hokonui

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon and welcome to the muster on Hokonui. Andy
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Speaker 1: Muir here. The show is brought to you by Peters Genetics.
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Speaker 1: Welcome along to Hunt Day. As we look outside over
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Speaker 1: the main street of G-Town, it is really overcast. Little
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Speaker 1: splashes of blue sky, but just overcast really and pretty warm.
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Speaker 1: Currently on 18 degrees. We'll look at the weather very shortly.
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Speaker 1: But the sporting cycle continues. The Blackcaps in India, I
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Speaker 1: didn't realise this, but they're playing five ODIs getting underway
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Speaker 1: this afternoon with the 3pm first ball is happening as well.
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Speaker 1: So this Indian cricket tour, they're the rock stars of
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Speaker 1: the cricketing world, regardless what you think of the organisation
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Speaker 1: that runs them. But wherever India goes, it's a big deal.
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Speaker 1: So something to look out for on the tally later
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Speaker 1: on this afternoon and into this evening. Billy Giles, the
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Speaker 1: tunes for our first guest. It is a Wednesday.
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Speaker 2: This afternoon they're talking thunderstorms developing with calm variable winds
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Speaker 2: in a.
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Speaker 3: High of 20.
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Speaker 2: Thursday afternoon showers of light winds 11 and 22.
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Speaker 1: Friday, thunderstorms once again with breezy South Westerlies, 11 and 22. Saturday,
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Speaker 1: showers of light South Westerlies, 10 and 19. And on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: very similar showers with light Southerlies. Haven't wrote that word
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Speaker 1: down for a while. 9 and 17. So temperatures, Clinton 12.2,
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Speaker 1: Heriot 10.1, Northern Southland 12.7, Riverton and Te Anau 13.5,
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Speaker 1: Titiroa 13, Winton 12.6 and Woodlands at 12.1. Like I say,
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Speaker 1: Billy Joel's in music today, especially for our first guest.
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Speaker 1: He's been a correspondent on the muster long enough and
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Speaker 1: he's a fan of Billy Joel's. So Peter Allen, our
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Speaker 1: deer farming correspondent from Glenure, gets us underway this afternoon.
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Speaker 1: Tom Shallard of Craig's Investment Partners says, Looks at what's
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Speaker 1: happening in the political landscape, not just here in New Zealand,
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Speaker 1: but in America with midterm elections underway and the GDT
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Speaker 1: result from last night being a real boomer, to be fair.
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Speaker 1: Keely Buckingham of Dairy NZ is on the show. Moe
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Speaker 1: Topham's talking rural riders. And then Jaden Henderson. He's had
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Speaker 1: a hell of a year, Jaden. He started off over
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Speaker 1: in Sydney, and then he got a text saying, come
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Speaker 1: and play for the Stags, and now all of a
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Speaker 1: sudden he's found himself involved with the Crusaders. So looking
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Speaker 1: forward to catching up with Jaden. Mark Calder of PGG
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Speaker 1: writes in, talk some boomer land prices as well, and
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Speaker 1: then we'll get the hour underway. With Peter Allen, this
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Speaker 1: is the must-have brought to you by Peter's Genetics. Just
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Speaker 1: gone seven after one. Sing us a song, you're the
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Speaker 1: piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Well, we're all
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Speaker 1: in the mood for... Peter Allen is a deer farmer
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Speaker 1: based at the Glen Ewer. I heard him chuckling away
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Speaker 1: in the background there, so he must agree with the song.
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Speaker 1: Piano Man by Billy Joel. Good afternoon, Pete.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, love it.
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Speaker 3: Love a bit of Billy Joel. Makes me smile. No, thanks, Andy.
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Speaker 3: Appreciate that.
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Speaker 1: We spoke to you last time up there. You're not
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Speaker 1: far away from the Caroline Valley, the Glen Ewers exactly,
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Speaker 1: just out of Balfour. It was pretty wet. Have things changed?
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Speaker 3: A little bit. Every now and then it just reminds
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Speaker 3: us that we're still in spring. Like I said to
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Speaker 3: you off air, Andy, Friday was just atrocious there. My
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Speaker 3: wife Diane and I spent the whole day sorting up
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Speaker 3: 350 hinds into five respective fawning mobs and it just
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Speaker 3: snowed and sleeted all day and then The next day
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Speaker 3: it'd come out not too bad, and we just don't
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Speaker 3: seem to get two days the same. But that's spring
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Speaker 3: in Southland.
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Speaker 1: How are your feed levels looking then, all things considered?
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Speaker 3: They were not too bad. All the young grasses, and
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Speaker 3: we're trying to save up paddocks. There's just a game
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Speaker 3: of chess still at the moment with maximum stock units on.
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Speaker 3: Nothing's headed off farm at the moment. And winter crops
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Speaker 3: finished a while ago. Some of the covers are not
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Speaker 3: too bad, but some are very, very short. we could
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Speaker 3: do with a bit more growth and a bit more heat,
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Speaker 3: and it's about consistency. But, you know, the condition of
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Speaker 3: the animals, not too.
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Speaker 4: Bad, really.
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Speaker 1: What's it like for pagging with deer?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you do certainly get a lot of it. But
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Speaker 3: there's been a lot of reparatory work done that I've
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Speaker 3: had to do in the last month, but a lot
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Speaker 3: of that has been on runoff from their winter crops.
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Speaker 3: The younger animals are not too bad, and it's more
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Speaker 3: tracking than anything. We don't get fence tracking so much
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Speaker 3: here because we spend so much time and effort putting
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Speaker 3: shelter belts up, so when you've got a sight screen there,
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Speaker 3: they don't walk fence lines, so that's not an issue. But, yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's like everything else. The older the stags, they do
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Speaker 3: have a decent footprint.
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Speaker 1: When do you start wrapping up some supplements, or is
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Speaker 1: that after Christmas?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we never get into it too early here because
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Speaker 3: of the amount of, animals we have on, plus also
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Speaker 3: we don't normally do any baleage until February, March. It
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Speaker 3: sounds a little bit later, but it works pretty well here.
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Speaker 3: We're still putting in crop paddocks quite late this year,
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Speaker 3: maybe even into January. We'll just see what happens. We're
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Speaker 3: about to get a digger in here for the next
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Speaker 3: 10 days, and that's a month behind schedule, but I
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Speaker 3: won't expand on the reasons for that. everybody seems to
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Speaker 3: want them at the moment. So now our son will
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Speaker 3: be here for the next 10 days, but I haven't
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Speaker 3: sort of managed to get off the end of the shovel.
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Speaker 3: So hopefully that'll sort itself out in the next few years.
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Speaker 1: Those calluses on your hands will never get the chance
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Speaker 1: to heal, Pete. That's just the nature of the game.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. The one thing you do with velveting is you
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Speaker 3: get pretty soft hands because you're in water, you know,
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Speaker 3: 50 times a day. So no, that's not an issue.
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Speaker 3: But look, one thing I wanted to touch on today, Andy, um,
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Speaker 3: And it's prudent and pertinent we just sorted up hinds
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Speaker 3: into fawning mobs. And I've had discussions with certain farmers.
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Speaker 4: Over the years.
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Speaker 3: There is still far too high a loss in fawn
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Speaker 3: loss from displacing and misadventure is probably the best word.
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Speaker 3: And farmers need to be a little more vigilant on
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Speaker 3: their paddocks, and particularly the gates at the end of
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Speaker 3: tree lanes and things like that. And after a winter
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Speaker 3: where there's deeper tyre marks through gateways. Because it doesn't
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Speaker 3: take a lot for a fawn to get out of
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Speaker 3: that fawning paddock. And once it gets out of that paddock,
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Speaker 3: it's basically the end of its life. And I know
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Speaker 3: that sounds really harsh, but sometimes you have to speak
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Speaker 3: like that to get the message through. Once those fawns
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Speaker 3: get under a gate into the next paddock, they won't
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Speaker 3: come back because they don't have the ability at a
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Speaker 3: few days old or a few hours old to get back.
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Speaker 3: And it's just a simple matter of either filling up
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Speaker 3: the big holes under gateways with rock or gravel or
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Speaker 3: flat bottom posts and things like that, but tightening up
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Speaker 3: your chains and things. People just need to go around
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Speaker 3: every paddock. Like we had 28 gates around the six
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Speaker 3: forming paddocks. It sounds like a lot, but, you know,
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Speaker 3: there's some corners that have got four gates into four
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Speaker 3: different paddocks. And, you know, I took about 85 ton
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Speaker 3: over a period of week and We've got some good
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Speaker 3: rotten rock here, and it's far better than putting in
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Speaker 3: posts underneath gateways and things like that. But yeah, it
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Speaker 3: still surprises me that some people do lose more than
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Speaker 3: they actually need to.
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Speaker 1: How realistic is it to hand rear fawns?
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Speaker 3: Well, my wife's done it quite a few times, and
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Speaker 3: they make incredible pets, especially the little fellow. There's nothing better.
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Speaker 3: That's probably a little bit biased, but no, they make
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Speaker 3: amazing pets. And you can take them off their mums
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Speaker 3: at a day old just after they've had their first
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Speaker 3: drink of colostrum because the fawns, when they're born, they'll
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Speaker 3: have probably upwards of nine or ten feeds a day
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Speaker 3: for the first week. And a lot of people don't
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Speaker 3: even realise that the hinds have got four milking teats,
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Speaker 3: a lot of glandular milk in a deer. And, no,
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Speaker 3: we've successfully raised fawns. A lot of people will raise
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Speaker 3: red fawns and they turn into wonderful pets, so... Quite easy.
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Speaker 3: You can get them onto things like lamb teats or
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Speaker 3: you can actually just have them sucking out of, say,
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Speaker 3: an ice cream container from starting on your finger and
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Speaker 3: things like that. So no, we've done it a few times.
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Speaker 1: So as far as fawns, I don't know, venturing away
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Speaker 1: from mum and not coming back, how often would that
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Speaker 1: occur every year, would you say, on average?
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Speaker 3: Well, you don't know until they're dead and you go
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Speaker 3: and mow your paddock and things like that because you're
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Speaker 3: leaving those animals to do their own thing. and the
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Speaker 3: human interference, you just stay away. So you only find
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Speaker 3: all these things out retrospectively. So it's like a lot
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Speaker 3: of things in life. You know, prevention's the best cure there.
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Speaker 1: As far as the venison and velvet schedules or seasons
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Speaker 1: or the likes, what are we predicting?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, venison has been very stable and still looking
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Speaker 3: very stable, but, you know, it's also on the back
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Speaker 3: of lesser production, so therefore we're not having to... look
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Speaker 3: for any more markets is probably the best way to
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Speaker 3: describe that at the moment. We're probably undersupplying some of
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Speaker 3: the top-end markets, if anything, with venison. Now, velvet, Andy,
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Speaker 3: last year was probably one of the worst years in
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Speaker 3: the last 25 years. We had an oversupply, an overhang
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Speaker 3: of velvet into China, and the price, well, crashed is
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Speaker 3: probably a little bit harsh, but certainly not a lot
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Speaker 3: of tax paid from a lot of farmers from velvet
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Speaker 3: last year. We thought it would take a couple of
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Speaker 3: years to turn around, but price is out already and
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Speaker 3: indications are that things could turn around quite quickly. And
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Speaker 3: it's on the back of a couple of major Chinese buyers.
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Speaker 3: that didn't actually buy last year, and they probably didn't
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Speaker 3: predict that it was going to come up this quick.
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Speaker 3: So the demand is looking good, but it's also on
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Speaker 3: the back of quite a significant kill of velveting stags
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Speaker 3: last year, and kudos to all the venison companies for
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Speaker 3: accommodating that. And it looks as though it might turn
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Speaker 3: around to be not too bad a season, but we
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Speaker 3: never know until the season's done.
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Speaker 1: It's incredible how it's changed in 12 months, like you say.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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Speaker 3: But like a lot of things, you don't count your
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Speaker 3: chickens until they're in the bank, as far as that goes.
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Speaker 1: That's for sure. Hey, just to wrap up, Pete, you've
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Speaker 1: been a big fan of your tennis over the years.
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Speaker 1: The Northern Southland Tennis Sub-Association, or Sub-Union, I suppose, their
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Speaker 1: 100th is coming up next March up in Te Anau.
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Speaker 1: Regos are open. This will be a good weekend.
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Speaker 3: Should be, Andy. Yeah, everybody that's been involved. I was
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Speaker 3: incredibly lucky. I was chairing Northern Tennis at the time.
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Speaker 3: We had four clubs in Tenerife. So, no, it was
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Speaker 3: a wonderful period and... Yeah, no, everybody should get on
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Speaker 3: board and, you know, put the entries in, early, early indications. So, no,
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Speaker 3: that's good, and looking forward to it.
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Speaker 1: Good on you, Pete. We'll let you carry on in
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Speaker 1: the trenches, quite literally. Catch up to you next time.
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Speaker 3: Thanks, Andy.
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Speaker 1: Peter Allen, deer farming up there at Balfour. Yeah, the
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Speaker 1: Northern South and Tennis Centenary, 19th to the 21st of March, 2027.
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Speaker 1: Facebook page is up and running. Get involved. Tom Shellard's next.
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Speaker 2: Feeling all right. Tom Shallard of Craig's Investment Partners joins
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Speaker 2: us in studio once again, good afternoon Good afternoon Andy,
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Speaker 2: once again another very busy week across the country, plenty
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Speaker 2: to talk about It's been a busy old week, it's
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Speaker 2: been a busy old year.
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Speaker 5: It has been. It has been. Only two months to go.
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Speaker 5: It's hard to believe.
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Speaker 1: Talking about work, you talk about dairy, the GDT last night. Yes, again,
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Speaker 1: another big positive.
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Speaker 5: Another strong auction, up 3%, and that's seven strong auctions
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Speaker 5: out of the last eight, and back to highs in March. So, yeah,
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Speaker 5: pretty good to see. That supports Fonterra's recent guidance around 9.75%.
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Speaker 1: That just seems to be the way these auctions go, though.
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Speaker 1: There's a lull in the middle of winter, as you'd expect,
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Speaker 1: and as you get into the season, it seems to
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Speaker 1: build up.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it tends to match the supply and demand curve,
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Speaker 5: doesn't it?
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Speaker 1: Pretty much. Right, elections. It's the big buzzword this week. But,
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Speaker 1: I mean, markets and the likes... If it goes either way, which, well,
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Speaker 1: that's going to happen. That's a given. But it's a
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Speaker 1: matter of which way it goes. And I suppose there's
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Speaker 1: a bit of nervousness out there regarding the sector, not
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Speaker 1: the sectors, but anything and everything.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely. I mean, for markets, the question isn't necessarily
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Speaker 5: who wins the election or what coalition is formed. It's
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Speaker 5: just how quickly we get a workable government. I mean,
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Speaker 5: markets don't like uncertainty, whatever that may be. But in
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Speaker 5: this case, yeah, political uncertainty. So if Saturday doesn't give
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Speaker 5: us a clear answer, I mean, yeah, keep the kettle on.
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Speaker 5: We'll have to wait and see what materialises from negotiations
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Speaker 5: until we get a workable government. But that might well
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Speaker 5: happen on Saturday. Who knows? It looks tighter than the
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Speaker 5: Melbourne Cup. So, yeah, that will be interesting. I mean,
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Speaker 5: it's too close to call, so we really do just
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Speaker 5: have to wait and see.
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Speaker 1: Would you say there's a few nerves out there in
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Speaker 1: the market, considering it could be a four-way coalition?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely. No, there absolutely is. And, yeah, from an
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Speaker 5: uncertainty point of view, markets just want to know, you know,
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Speaker 5: what would be tweaked at the margins if, you know,
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Speaker 5: a certain coalition got in, and that sort of can
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Speaker 5: look like tax settings, you know, which are the topic
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Speaker 5: of the election, really.
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Speaker 1: The Reserve Bank last week... They played it in the
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Speaker 1: V with a Kane Williamson straight bat, didn't they? Surprising
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Speaker 1: everybody with a hold.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you said it better than I could have, Andy,
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Speaker 5: but I don't know if it was entirely, I mean,
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Speaker 5: it certainly surprised markets that a 25-point hike was actually
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Speaker 5: fully priced in. But, you know, a week out from
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Speaker 5: an election, does it really surprise you retrospectively? Who knows? But, yeah, look,
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Speaker 5: it was a close call. Three of seven members were
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Speaker 5: supporting a hike. So yeah, it's definitely more of a
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Speaker 5: pause than the end of this tightening cycle. There's probably
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Speaker 5: a bigger global story there as well. Central banks aren't
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Speaker 5: the only ones tightening financial conditions. You just have to
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Speaker 5: look at the US bond market. It's doing some of
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Speaker 5: the work for them.
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Speaker 1: Is it a concern though that the board of the
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Speaker 1: Reserve Bank weren't on the same page though regarding a lift?
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Speaker 5: Not necessarily. You do tend to see differing views and
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Speaker 5: I guess that's how you've got seven around the table
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Speaker 5: and a consensus won't always be formed.
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Speaker 1: So interest rates, mortgages and everything as well, everybody can
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Speaker 1: just breathe for a little bit longer?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, but it certainly is trending a little bit upward
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Speaker 5: with increased energy costs and higher inflation.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of inflation, New Zealand business confidence is actually appearing
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Speaker 1: pretty robust despite everything at the moment. I mean, down
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Speaker 1: here in the south, it's a given. We're going ahead
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Speaker 1: in massive strides. The rest of the country, though, especially
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Speaker 1: up north, it's a different scenario. But businesses seem pretty positive.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, we've probably talked many times now about
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Speaker 5: what's happening in the rural economy. But across some of
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Speaker 5: the major centres, actually, businesses do seem remarkably resilient despite
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Speaker 5: Geopolitical uncertainty, higher fuel prices, higher business costs, higher wage bills.
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Speaker 5: So that is actually quite encouraging that business confidence is
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Speaker 5: holding up. I'd say a lot of people are looking
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Speaker 5: towards inflation as a bit of a watch point. Companies
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Speaker 5: that are expecting higher costs do tend to pass that
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Speaker 5: on to their consumers, which leads to price increases. So
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Speaker 5: energy is an important part of the story there. And yeah,
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Speaker 5: we really need to see some sort of resolution with
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Speaker 5: this energy crisis. And hopefully that will lead to a
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Speaker 5: drop in some of those longer dated interest rates.
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Speaker 1: This might seem like a silly question, but are we
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Speaker 1: still seeing remnants of the after effects of COVID? Or
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Speaker 1: is that null and void after six years now? That's
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Speaker 1: two political terms on, I suppose.
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Speaker 5: Well, we probably still haven't really emerged from the rut
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Speaker 5: of quite a severe recession on the back of COVID
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Speaker 5: and that really steep rate hiking cycle we saw in
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Speaker 5: 2022 and 2023. So, yeah, it's called a K-shaped economy.
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Speaker 5: There's divergence. The sector's doing really, really well. and there's
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Speaker 5: the sectors that aren't. And that creates, you know, people
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Speaker 5: living in the same economy, two different economic outcomes. And
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Speaker 5: you can see that quite clearly.
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Speaker 1: Right. Speaking of elections, the US midterms and the old Trumpster,
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, he could be, he might be about to
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Speaker 1: lose some of his power.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 5: It's another big event for markets. As you said, you know,
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Speaker 5: Democrats expected to win the House. Senate's looking like a
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Speaker 5: pretty close fight as well. Republicans currently control both. So, look,
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Speaker 5: any change to the control of Congress will make President
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Speaker 5: Trump's domestic agenda much harder to advance. He's already made
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Speaker 5: a few public comments about his ability to veto anything
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Speaker 5: that comes across his desk that isn't favourable for, I guess,
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Speaker 5: Republican interests. So, yeah, it's going to be very, very interesting,
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Speaker 5: and we'll see. some of that information start to flow
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Speaker 5: through this afternoon.
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Speaker 1: You talk about being domestic, the domestic scene in America
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Speaker 1: and how it'll change. What about international? What about these tariffs?
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Speaker 1: Will we see any change there?
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Speaker 5: Not necessarily. He'll still have the ability under laws that
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Speaker 5: he's already, I guess, exploited.
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Speaker 1: So it's all domestic?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, to advance his tariff and trade policies agendas. So
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Speaker 5: probably not going to see too much change there, I
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Speaker 5: don't think, Andy.
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Speaker 1: But it's certainly going to be interesting times over the
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Speaker 1: next seven days. Craig's Investment Partners, you're opposite you, World,
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Speaker 1: but what is your physical address?
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Speaker 5: 1 Erick Street, Andy, and you can call me on
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Speaker 5: 03 209 0152. Good on you, Tom.
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Speaker 1: Enjoy the hour.
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Speaker 5: Thanks, Andy.
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Speaker 1: Tom Shallard of Craig's Investment Partners, based right here in Gore.
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Speaker 1: This is the must-up. As a look at the notes,
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Speaker 1: who have we got next? Keely Buckingham of Dairy NZ.
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Speaker 1: I may have won your heart's... Billy Joel is the artist,
19:19
Speaker 1: as if you needed reminding, that song there called Allentown.
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Speaker 1: You're listening to The Muster. We're away to catch up
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Speaker 1: with Keely Buckingham. She's up in Canterbury this afternoon. G'day, Keely.
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Speaker 3: Hey, Andy.
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Speaker 7: How are you going?
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Speaker 1: Very well. It's overcast. There's no wind. And it's reasonably
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Speaker 1: pleasant at the moment down here in the south, I
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Speaker 1: think it's fair to say.
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Speaker 2: Perfect.
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Speaker 7: Yes, it has been. It's been cracking. How good was Saturday?
19:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, better than Friday.
19:45
Speaker 7: Yeah, and Sunday.
19:48
Speaker 1: Absolutely, look, everyone out in the paddocks at the moment
19:51
Speaker 1: doing the cultivation work, thinking about next season. A couple
19:54
Speaker 1: of reminders today.
19:56
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think, you know, being going flat out our
20:00
Speaker 7: way too, and so just a few key messages if
20:03
Speaker 7: you haven't started cultivation yet is just making sure, number one,
20:07
Speaker 7: just making sure you've got that cultivation plan done, those
20:11
Speaker 7: winter grazing plans, so making sure that you've mapped out
20:14
Speaker 7: those swales, waterways buffer zones that you want left by
20:19
Speaker 7: the contractors and then sharing those plans with our contractors
20:23
Speaker 7: I know some that lots of people do do very
20:26
Speaker 7: well is having really thorough plans so if you don't
20:30
Speaker 7: and haven't passed them on to your contractors to do
20:34
Speaker 7: so yet then please make sure that you do that
20:37
Speaker 7: And just doing it early as possible, like sharing that
20:40
Speaker 7: plan and agreeing on, you know, what ways cultivation is
20:44
Speaker 7: being done, the direction of that. And even if it's
20:47
Speaker 7: doing simple things like fencing off those critical source areas
20:50
Speaker 7: out in paddocks or swales or zones of the paddock
20:53
Speaker 7: you don't want sprayed out first and therefore indefinitely then
20:57
Speaker 7: don't want cultivated. Just some nice easy tips. The second
21:01
Speaker 7: one is leaving those buffer zones in grass. So leaving
21:07
Speaker 7: them in grass just means that it acts as a
21:10
Speaker 7: bit of a barrier to slow down that nutrient loss,
21:15
Speaker 7: especially around those waterways and critical source areas. And, yeah,
21:20
Speaker 7: with the rules as well, they do need to stay
21:22
Speaker 7: in grass all through winter. So, yeah, and then just
21:28
Speaker 7: around buffer zones, just making sure you know how far
21:31
Speaker 7: those buffer zones need to be. So if it's 10 metres.
21:36
Speaker 7: Around buffers, I mean, sorry, 10 metres where slopes are
21:40
Speaker 7: less than 10 degrees and 20 where slopes are higher
21:43
Speaker 7: than 10 degrees. So just, if you haven't marked those
21:46
Speaker 7: out before cultivators head in there, then also it's another
21:49
Speaker 7: easy thing to do as well.
21:52
Speaker 1: In general, how do farmers go regarding these regulations, would
21:55
Speaker 1: you say?
21:57
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think we've seen a really, really good turn
22:00
Speaker 7: towards good management practice in this space and certainly In
22:05
Speaker 7: terms of what we see across the country, Southland's certainly
22:08
Speaker 7: leading the charge in that space. Most of us are very,
22:11
Speaker 7: very aware of what we need to do to make
22:14
Speaker 7: wintering as good as it can be and have as
22:18
Speaker 7: less impact on the environment as possible. So it's really
22:22
Speaker 7: cool to see. Seeing heaps of cool buffer zones and
22:24
Speaker 7: good buffer zones being left in grass, even just my
22:28
Speaker 7: drive to town every day, seeing what's happening out in paddocks,
22:31
Speaker 7: it's looking really good. but you know especially if you've
22:35
Speaker 7: got contractors coming in to do that you know the
22:39
Speaker 7: liability still sits with you at the end of the
22:41
Speaker 7: day and so making sure your contractors already know you
22:45
Speaker 7: know the go zones and the direction that you want
22:49
Speaker 7: things cultivated in as well is really important and just
22:53
Speaker 7: on that direction just where possible I guess that's the
22:57
Speaker 7: last message is cultivating across the slope where possible just
23:03
Speaker 7: going and cultivating across the slope can just reduce the
23:05
Speaker 7: runoff and soil loss. And if you can't practically cultivate
23:10
Speaker 7: across the slope, then potentially the paddock might not be
23:13
Speaker 7: as suitable as we would like it to be for
23:16
Speaker 7: winter cropping. So just something to think about. I know
23:18
Speaker 7: plans are already in place and paddocks are being shut
23:21
Speaker 7: out to be taken out for crop, but if it's
23:23
Speaker 7: still an option to consider sowing direction and cultivation direction,
23:29
Speaker 7: then certainly something to think about.
23:30
Speaker 1: Kylie, as far as the paperwork situation with winter grazing,
23:34
Speaker 1: where are we at these days with it? Because I'll
23:36
Speaker 1: be honest, I get lost with what you need to do.
23:38
Speaker 1: How bad is it, or is it not complicated?
23:40
Speaker 7: No, we've got templates on our website around winter grazing
23:45
Speaker 7: plans and how to do them. It's as simple as
23:48
Speaker 7: having your paddock drawn out on a page, have all
23:51
Speaker 7: your critical source areas identified. Some people like to put
23:56
Speaker 7: where their bales are placed. Having a direction of grazing.
24:00
Speaker 7: planned on there as well and just with a simple
24:03
Speaker 7: thing as an arrow of where you want to start
24:05
Speaker 7: and if there are parts of the paddock that you
24:07
Speaker 7: need to graze differently down towards potential critical source areas
24:12
Speaker 7: we might split the paddock up into different grazing direction
24:15
Speaker 7: sections I see a lot of people now will chuck
24:19
Speaker 7: a drone up over their crop paddocks and then just
24:21
Speaker 7: do it on on the computer, overlay the plan on
24:25
Speaker 7: top of a picture of the actual paddock, so that's
24:28
Speaker 7: a nice easy way to do it as well, if
24:29
Speaker 7: that's an option. So no, not hard, and it's nice
24:33
Speaker 7: to have a plan because some of the detail can
24:37
Speaker 7: then be passed on to your staff too, and something
24:39
Speaker 7: to refer back to at the start of winter or
24:41
Speaker 7: midway through the winter, oh, how were we going to
24:43
Speaker 7: graze that part of the paddock? What were we going
24:45
Speaker 7: to do? around that wee hollow part, you know, things
24:48
Speaker 7: like that. So easy to do now and then, you know,
24:51
Speaker 7: you don't have to really look at it once the
24:53
Speaker 7: crop's on the ground until winter starts.
24:55
Speaker 1: Good on you, Kayleigh. Good to catch up as always.
24:57
Speaker 7: All right. Thanks, Andy.
25:00
Speaker 1: Kayleigh Buckingham of Dairy NZ. Iron horse is going all
25:04
Speaker 1: over the show at the moment as the weather is
25:06
Speaker 1: allowing it to. You're listening to the muster up next,
25:08
Speaker 1: Mo Topham. And before the end of the hour, Jaden Henderson.
25:16
Speaker 1: You know I seen her in her uptown world Welcome
25:22
Speaker 1: back to the muster. The Southland Rural Support Trust, they're
25:25
Speaker 1: doing some events this week to coincide with the SBS
25:28
Speaker 1: Bank Tour of Southland. Their coffee shouts happening tomorrow at
25:32
Speaker 1: Gropers Bush, then again on Friday at Woodland School. But
25:35
Speaker 1: as well, Rural Riders is back underway for 2026 Wednesday evenings.
25:41
Speaker 1: Mo Topham's on the line to give us a rundown
25:44
Speaker 1: on Rural Riders and what to expect. G'day Mo, good
25:47
Speaker 1: to chat.
25:48
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks for having me Andy. Um, Yeah, a bit
25:51
Speaker 4: different to the old tour of Southland, but your Rural
25:54
Speaker 4: Riders is on again in Southland. This is our third season,
25:57
Speaker 4: which is pretty cool.
25:58
Speaker 1: Did you think your last three seasons with the initiative?
26:03
Speaker 4: I really liked the initiative. It's been such a cool
26:06
Speaker 4: thing to be involved with, getting farmers off farm and
26:10
Speaker 4: talking farming but not on a farm, and also meeting
26:14
Speaker 4: some people with some like-minded interests. Yeah. It's been good.
26:18
Speaker 4: We've been seeing some of our rural riders off at
26:20
Speaker 4: races further north, which has been really cool.
26:23
Speaker 1: This isn't just a Southland initiative, though. Is this nationwide?
26:27
Speaker 4: Yeah, there are 13 groups throughout the country, but we've
26:31
Speaker 4: got two groups in Southland. So we've got a group
26:34
Speaker 4: that alternates every Wednesday night between the Oat Perry Hall
26:39
Speaker 4: and Sandy Point. And then there's also a group that's
26:42
Speaker 4: meeting monthly up at Waikāia and doing those new tracks
26:46
Speaker 4: in the Waikāia forestry up there. It's a beautiful track.
26:50
Speaker 4: It's definitely worth getting up there.
26:52
Speaker 1: So what can people expect when they turn up to
26:55
Speaker 1: Rural Riders?
26:56
Speaker 4: So the event is free. We ask people to register
27:01
Speaker 4: before they come along, just from a health and safety perspective.
27:05
Speaker 4: and to make sure we've got enough food for the
27:06
Speaker 4: barbecue at the end. But once people get there, we
27:10
Speaker 4: divide up into groups, depending on how far people want
27:13
Speaker 4: to go and what sort of speed they want to do.
27:16
Speaker 4: And then we go off and have a bike ride
27:19
Speaker 4: out at Otapiri. That's a gravel ride, and it's absolutely
27:22
Speaker 4: stunning out there. And then down at Sandy Point, we're
27:25
Speaker 4: out on the mountain bike tracks and just go and
27:28
Speaker 4: have a bit of fun for an hour or so,
27:30
Speaker 4: and then come back for a barbecue and a catch-up.
27:33
Speaker 1: And what time do you start?
27:34
Speaker 4: 6.30 on a Wednesday night.
27:37
Speaker 1: And there's been good numbers?
27:40
Speaker 4: Yeah, excellent numbers. So anywhere from 15 to 25, and
27:45
Speaker 4: within that we have a lot of people who are
27:46
Speaker 4: coming back each week. It's part of their social calendar now.
27:51
Speaker 1: And that's the important thing about these events, I suppose, Mo,
27:53
Speaker 1: is encouraging farmers to get off farm. It's been a
27:56
Speaker 1: grind over the spring. We don't need to go back
27:58
Speaker 1: over that, but this is just an outlet for people
28:01
Speaker 1: if they want it.
28:02
Speaker 4: Oh, definitely. It was absolutely fantastic to get back into
28:06
Speaker 4: it this year, particularly after that wonderful spring we all endured.
28:11
Speaker 4: And everyone said, you know, it's just so good to
28:14
Speaker 4: be back out on a bike, chatting away to friends
28:18
Speaker 4: that we've made through the rural riders and being able
28:20
Speaker 4: to reconnect again.
28:22
Speaker 1: So this will happen through the summer, I'd imagine?
28:25
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll take a break for Christmas and New Year's,
28:28
Speaker 4: but we'll be back into it in about mid-January.
28:31
Speaker 1: And as one of those events as well, like you say,
28:35
Speaker 1: it's a great chance for people to go and do
28:37
Speaker 1: something different. Have you thought about doing mountain biking to
28:41
Speaker 1: go along? Obviously, taking your own bike, I suppose, is
28:44
Speaker 1: a prerequisite.
28:46
Speaker 4: Yeah, everyone has brought their own bike, but there are
28:49
Speaker 4: a lot of people within the group who have multiple bikes.
28:52
Speaker 4: So if someone wants to come along and they don't
28:55
Speaker 4: have a bike of their own, get in touch with
28:57
Speaker 4: us and we'll see what we can do.
28:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, so good. So what are the details for tonight
29:02
Speaker 1: that people need to know?
29:03
Speaker 4: So tonight we're out at Sandy Point. So it starts
29:08
Speaker 4: at 6.30 from the main car park that's out there.
29:13
Speaker 4: To register and for any other information, I recommend people
29:16
Speaker 4: go to the website, which is forfarmers.co.nz. And you'll see
29:23
Speaker 4: at the top there, there's a Rural Riders tab, and
29:26
Speaker 4: just click into there, and it's got the information for
29:29
Speaker 4: our group, the Otopiri Sandy Point One, but it also
29:32
Speaker 4: has the information for the Waikāia group, along with all
29:36
Speaker 4: the phone numbers of the organisers. So if anyone has
29:38
Speaker 4: any questions or questions, just get in touch with us.
29:43
Speaker 1: You're South Mo you do quite a bit of bike riding?
29:46
Speaker 4: Yeah never enough Andy and certainly not at the Tour
29:50
Speaker 4: of South 1 type level but I enjoy getting out
29:53
Speaker 4: for an adventure and seeing some new countryside and if
29:56
Speaker 4: you can do that in good company then Yep, you're
29:59
Speaker 4: on to a winner, aren't you?
30:01
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Hey, good on you, Mo. It's always great to
30:03
Speaker 1: hear of these things that are continuing and that aren't
30:06
Speaker 1: just one season wonders as such. So like you say,
30:09
Speaker 1: get on board there, go and turn up at Sandy
30:11
Speaker 1: Point tonight. Good to catch up.
30:13
Speaker 4: Awesome. Thank you, Andy.
30:17
Speaker 1: Mo Topham, on behalf of Rural Riders, of course, Southland
30:20
Speaker 1: Rural Support Trust, 0800 787 254. There is always somebody
30:25
Speaker 1: at the other end of the phone if you need
30:27
Speaker 1: to have a conversation. Remembering as well, tomorrow, Groper's Bush
30:31
Speaker 1: for the SBS Bank Tour of Southwind Coffee Shout and
30:35
Speaker 1: 6th of November, which is Friday, funnily enough, at Woodland School.
30:39
Speaker 1: Up next, before we wrap up, Jaden Henderson. I don't
30:45
Speaker 1: care what you say anymore. This is my life.
30:52
Speaker 3: Go ahead with your own life.
30:54
Speaker 1: This is the muster on Hokanui. Jaden Henderson. I think
30:57
Speaker 1: it's fair to say the guy's had a pretty exceptional year.
31:00
Speaker 1: Starting off not really with any expectations regarding his rugby
31:05
Speaker 1: career and ending up Um, he's going away to join
31:08
Speaker 1: the Crusaders, uh, wider training squad later on this month.
31:12
Speaker 1: He joins us this afternoon to give us from his perspective,
31:15
Speaker 1: I suppose, how the season's all gone. Jaden, good afternoon.
31:18
Speaker 1: You must be still pinching yourself at the way things
31:20
Speaker 1: have unfolded.
31:21
Speaker 6: How you going Andy? Uh, yeah, thanks very much for
31:25
Speaker 6: having me on the show. Yeah, definitely pinching myself at, um,
31:28
Speaker 6: how everything's unfolded this year, but, um, yeah, pretty, pretty
31:31
Speaker 6: grateful for the opportunity and, um, Pretty cool to first
31:35
Speaker 6: and foremost be back down south, back home in Southland,
31:38
Speaker 6: playing rugby here and then, yeah, heading up the road
31:41
Speaker 6: to Crosschurch. Yeah, very exciting.
31:44
Speaker 1: Because you're an absolute southern boy at heart, aren't you?
31:46
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, grew up in Riversdale. Yeah, did my schooling
31:51
Speaker 6: here at Riversdale and went up to Target Boys there
31:54
Speaker 6: for a few years, then up to Lincoln. So, yeah,
31:58
Speaker 6: a bit familiar with Crosschurch as well. And, yeah, obviously
32:01
Speaker 6: moved back down here, Worked as a livestock rep for
32:06
Speaker 6: about four years before heading overseas to play some rugby. So, yeah.
32:11
Speaker 1: So going overseas to play rugby, had you given up
32:14
Speaker 1: on that stag's dream more or less? Did that come
32:16
Speaker 1: into the equation, Jaden?
32:18
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
32:19
Speaker 6: I sort of was looking for an opportunity. Yeah, wanting
32:23
Speaker 6: to push myself past club level. And, yeah, obviously MPC
32:27
Speaker 6: didn't happen at the time. So, yeah, I went to Ireland.
32:33
Speaker 6: I went over there for about four months. The rugby
32:36
Speaker 6: over there wasn't really what I was expecting, but yeah,
32:40
Speaker 6: it was a pretty cool experience. Got a good look
32:42
Speaker 6: around Europe and then come back to Australia, played in
32:46
Speaker 6: the shoot shield in Sydney. Yeah, learned a lot in
32:50
Speaker 6: Sydney and it was a really big step up from
32:53
Speaker 6: club rugby here and yeah. So that for two years
32:57
Speaker 6: and then sitting at home one day at my flat
33:00
Speaker 6: and got a text from Scotty to come back to
33:04
Speaker 6: Southend and jumped at the opportunity. So yeah, I've been
33:08
Speaker 6: a bit all over the show since I think it
33:10
Speaker 6: was about 2024 when I left to go overseas. But yeah,
33:15
Speaker 6: it's pretty.
33:16
Speaker 8: Awesome to be back.
33:17
Speaker 1: Interesting you say the rugby in Ireland wasn't as anticipated.
33:20
Speaker 1: What was the story there? Different structure?
33:22
Speaker 3: Yeah.
33:24
Speaker 6: Oh, I sort of picked up an opportunity off Facebook
33:26
Speaker 6: and they talked it up that it was going to
33:28
Speaker 6: be a really good level of rugby. And yeah, it
33:32
Speaker 6: wasn't sort of what I was after. But yeah, I
33:35
Speaker 6: sort of saw it as more of an OE, a
33:36
Speaker 6: bit of an experience over there. Yeah, rugby's obviously not
33:42
Speaker 6: the number one sport in Ireland, but the level I
33:44
Speaker 6: was playing was not quite as high as I would
33:48
Speaker 6: have liked to have played. But, yeah, awesome experience. Learned
33:52
Speaker 6: a lot about myself, actually. Did a bit of coaching
33:54
Speaker 6: while I was over there. And, yeah, you gain an
33:57
Speaker 6: appreciation for coaches in that sense because, yeah, it was
34:01
Speaker 6: quite tough teaching kids that had never held a rugby
34:04
Speaker 6: ball before how to play rugby. So, yeah, pretty humbling experience.
34:08
Speaker 1: Playing in the shoot shield, though, that's a decent level
34:10
Speaker 1: of rugby as well. That's not to be ignored.
34:13
Speaker 6: No, really good level of rugby. Yeah, big step up
34:16
Speaker 6: speed-wise and physicality. The biggest shock to me was actually
34:21
Speaker 6: the heat. You know, the first game I played there
34:25
Speaker 6: was 37 degrees, so we're having 20-minute water breaks, and, yeah,
34:29
Speaker 6: I lost a lot of sweat that day, so a
34:32
Speaker 6: few power-aids after to get the body right, but, yeah,
34:37
Speaker 6: it was a big change, and, yeah, very good level
34:41
Speaker 6: of rugby. Yeah, I think 12 teams in the competition
34:44
Speaker 6: and everyone's pretty competitive and you're playing against Wallabies or
34:48
Speaker 6: Super Rugby players most weeks.
34:50
Speaker 4: So, yeah.
34:52
Speaker 1: Would you say the Wallabies, results aside, haven't been favourable,
34:56
Speaker 1: but would you say they're in a good place heading
34:58
Speaker 1: into their World Cup year being held on home soil?
35:02
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think so.
35:02
Speaker 2: Yeah.
35:03
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're building something nice. Yeah, they've got some quality
35:08
Speaker 6: world-class players there at the moment, so... Yeah, but I
35:11
Speaker 6: think it's going to be an interesting World Cup. Everyone's
35:14
Speaker 6: looking good building into next year. So, yeah, but I think, yeah,
35:17
Speaker 6: the Wallabies will be competitive.
35:20
Speaker 1: And you get that text, come back to Southland. Of course,
35:23
Speaker 1: Jack Taylor had his injury. But this is where the
35:26
Speaker 1: script falls into place for you. This is where it
35:28
Speaker 1: all started.
35:31
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, sort of opportunities, like they present themselves when
35:35
Speaker 6: you least expect them. So, yeah, you've got to be prepared.
35:38
Speaker 6: to take them I guess and yeah I guess your
35:41
Speaker 6: best abilities availability so made sure I was fit ready
35:44
Speaker 6: to go and yeah pretty unfortunate for Jack and he
35:48
Speaker 6: was still involved in the environment so he was really
35:50
Speaker 6: good to learn off and yeah helped me a lot
35:53
Speaker 6: in the environment because I'd never experienced being a full
35:57
Speaker 6: time rugby player before so yeah he was really good
35:59
Speaker 6: to learn off and yeah great group of guys and
36:03
Speaker 6: coaches around me which helped as well so yeah Is.
36:07
Speaker 1: There a good chance of the core of that group
36:09
Speaker 1: being retained for next season, would you say, or is
36:11
Speaker 1: it too early to predict?
36:14
Speaker 6: I'd like to think so. We're building nicely throughout the year,
36:19
Speaker 6: regardless of the results, I think. We were ticking some
36:22
Speaker 6: boxes and a good step in the right direction for
36:25
Speaker 6: Southland Rugby, I thought. There were some highs and lows,
36:29
Speaker 6: but we had a couple of really good wins there
36:31
Speaker 6: throughout the season and some close losses, but Yeah, a
36:34
Speaker 6: young team, I think, 21 debutants throughout the year. So, yeah,
36:39
Speaker 6: there's a big improvement to still happen, but, yeah, we're
36:44
Speaker 6: going in the right direction, I think.
36:46
Speaker 1: So describe the moment when you see yourself out on
36:48
Speaker 1: Rugby Park, you're looking on the terraces and it's jam-packed.
36:51
Speaker 1: That must have been the real moment that everything hit
36:54
Speaker 1: home for you properly.
36:56
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, no, it was a dream come true, to
36:58
Speaker 6: be honest. Yeah, pretty passionate about this province and... Yeah,
37:02
Speaker 6: growing up here, standing on the terraces with a lunchbox
37:06
Speaker 6: and supporting the boys and running out there on the
37:09
Speaker 6: field was pretty awesome. So, yeah, still sort of pinching
37:12
Speaker 6: myself that it's happened in the first place. And, yeah, just, yeah, really,
37:17
Speaker 6: really awesome experience.
37:18
Speaker 1: And it just goes to show how many more Jaden
37:20
Speaker 1: Hedisons are out there in Southland as well, you know,
37:23
Speaker 1: almost like a trailblazing moment.
37:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
37:27
Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely there's some quality rugby players around at the moment. So, yeah,
37:32
Speaker 6: it'll be interesting to see who's involved in the coming years.
37:35
Speaker 1: So how did you manage to get picked up in
37:37
Speaker 1: the Crusaders environment?
37:40
Speaker 6: There's a draft system that happens for the wider training group.
37:45
Speaker 6: I'm not entirely sure how it works, but throughout the season,
37:49
Speaker 6: I think each Super Rugby club can sort of pick
37:53
Speaker 6: players and then it goes to a draft system at
37:56
Speaker 6: the end of the year and they sort.
37:57
Speaker 4: Of get a pick.
38:01
Speaker 6: Goes in a rough order from my understanding I think
38:04
Speaker 6: the Crusaders had a pick before the Highlanders and yeah
38:09
Speaker 6: they obviously chose me which I was pretty wrapped about
38:13
Speaker 6: and yeah I was very unexpected it was quite funny
38:16
Speaker 6: I actually got a text from Jamie Joseph I had
38:18
Speaker 6: been speaking to him previously and he sort of congratulated
38:23
Speaker 6: me and wished me all the best up the road
38:24
Speaker 6: so yeah, that's sort of how I found out. It
38:27
Speaker 6: was very unexpected, and yeah, a few phone calls from
38:32
Speaker 6: coaching staff at Crusader shortly after confirmed it, so yeah,
38:35
Speaker 6: it was pretty awesome.
38:37
Speaker 1: A bit bizarre, but surreal at the same time. JB Joseph,
38:40
Speaker 1: the Highlanders coach, telling you that you're going to the Crusaders.
38:43
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
38:45
Speaker 6: I'd sort of been in touch, and he was interested
38:48
Speaker 6: in having me come to the Highlanders, but yeah, it was, yeah,
38:53
Speaker 6: that's sort of how it panned out, really. They they
38:57
Speaker 6: had the pick before the Crusaders did so yeah it
39:01
Speaker 6: was a bit of a.
39:01
Speaker 1: Surprise so Have you had to reassess your goals after
39:05
Speaker 1: this season?
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Speaker 6: Yeah definitely yeah I never thought I'd be playing for
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Speaker 6: the Sags let alone playing Super Rugby this time at
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Speaker 6: the start of well this time last year so yeah
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Speaker 6: reassess the goals yeah obviously it's a big step up
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Speaker 6: and what I'm used to with rugby and training. So, yeah,
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Speaker 6: it's a big change. getting to do rugby as a job. Like,
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Speaker 6: I've never looked at it that way, but it's, yeah,
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Speaker 6: it's an awesome opportunity and something that I love to do.
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Speaker 3: So, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, it will be a full-time job for you effectively now,
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Speaker 1: won't it? Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 6: A wee bit different to tailing lambs or drafting sheep,
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Speaker 6: or digging holes over in Sydney, so... Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But Ethan DeGroote did the same thing, the tailing run
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Speaker 1: around Riversdale, and he's gone pretty well. So all the
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Speaker 1: Southern lads, you know, you get a bit of a
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Speaker 1: grounding in rural work, and that gives you a bit
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Speaker 1: of backbone, to coin a phrase, I suppose, eh?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it definitely does. It makes you appreciate having
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Speaker 6: the opportunity to go and do what you love and
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Speaker 6: playing rugby, so yeah.
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Speaker 1: Hey, good on you, Jaden. Thanks for the chat this afternoon. Congratulations.
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Speaker 1: You've had a hell of a year in the Stags jersey.
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Speaker 1: All the best up the road there, even if you
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Speaker 1: are going to be in Christchurch. But Southlanders are proud
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Speaker 1: of what you've achieved. Thanks for your time.
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Speaker 2: Thanks, Andy.
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Speaker 4: Cheers.
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Speaker 6: Hey, well, all right, sir.
41:13
Speaker 1: Here we go there and what are they going to
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Speaker 1: get for? PGG writes and presents stock selling action once again.
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Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, so it's about Clutha's turn. Mark Calder's on
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Speaker 1: the line to give us a rundown on prices. Good afternoon, sir.
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Speaker 1: How do we go?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, g'day, Ron.
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Speaker 8: We went very good here at Belclutha today. It was
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Speaker 8: a reasonable yarding down here in a very strong market.
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Speaker 8: Things are going very well, still coming to the end
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Speaker 8: of the season. Big heavy prime lands, $ 300, $ 380. Your
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Speaker 8: good medium's still staying very strong at $ 250. And your stores,
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Speaker 8: your forward stores and your lighter end primes are $ 180
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Speaker 8: to $ 230. You're still going very well and holding your own.
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Speaker 8: Big heavy ewes, $ 280 to $ 320. $ 280. Your good medium's
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Speaker 8: still going very well, also at $ 2. 40 to $ 2.
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Speaker 3: 70.
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Speaker 8: And your hydrian girl's done a bit rough through the
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Speaker 8: winter and spring, with $ 1. 50 to $ 1.
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Speaker 4: 80.
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Speaker 8: A couple of lines of ewes and lambs at foot
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Speaker 8: in today at Barclutha. Lighter end ewes with some younger lambs.
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Speaker 4: They were $ 150.
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Speaker 8: And some nice heavy ewes with some nice black-faced tailed
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Speaker 8: lambs made $ 175. Very good lambs they were presented. Some rams,
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Speaker 8: got a few rams.
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Speaker 3: In here today.
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Speaker 8: They were $ 80 to $ 150. So, no, it was a
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Speaker 8: good day here at Barclutha.
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Speaker 2: Cheers.
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Speaker 3: Here's Pat to find him.