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The Muster Full Show: 23/10/26 · The Muster on Hokonui

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Speaker 1: Nathan Abernethy of Regional 4 joins us once again on
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Speaker 1: this beautiful afternoon in the Deep South. G'day, Nathan.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, g'day, Andy. It is a beautiful afternoon as well.
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Speaker 2: And let's hope we can string a few of these
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Speaker 2: together for a long weekend. So hopefully everybody has a
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Speaker 2: great long weekend and takes it easy and puts their
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Speaker 2: feet up over the weekend and we get some decent weather.
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Speaker 2: But look, it's another busy day here. Fridays always seem
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Speaker 2: to be busy. And as we sort of track towards
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Speaker 2: the end of another month, incredible really. Look, lots and
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Speaker 2: lots of good used stock coming on the yard at
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Speaker 2: the moment. It's been really busy. A huge amount of
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Speaker 2: double cabs. We've got a lot of late model Ranger,
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Speaker 2: what we call next gen Ranger, which is exactly the
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Speaker 2: same as what we've got in the showroom here in
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Speaker 2: the new model that we've had for the past few years.
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Speaker 3: So a lot of that.
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Speaker 2: Coming through second hand at the moment on new ones,
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Speaker 2: whether it be XLTs or V6 Wild Tracks or V6
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Speaker 2: Diesel Sports. There's plenty of it. But also a couple
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Speaker 2: of unique vehicles that have just come in this week, Andy.
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Speaker 2: We've got a The very, very last of the Ford
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Speaker 2: Falcon XR8s just come in. This is a 2015 travelled.
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Speaker 2: I think it's travelled about 42,000 k's. It's white. It's
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Speaker 2: got the 5 litre Coyote V8 supercharged engine in it.
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Speaker 2: It's got the FPV GT wing on the back of it. Really,
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Speaker 2: really nice. It's in white. Basically a GT Falcon, just
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Speaker 2: like a wolf in sheep's clothing, I guess you could
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Speaker 2: call it. Really nice. And for $ 56, 990, it's a really
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Speaker 2: good buy. It's honestly... It's a beautiful car, and one
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Speaker 2: of those cars you can put in the shed and
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Speaker 2: take out on a nice day like this. And 335
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Speaker 2: kilowatt V8, it really puts you back in the seat
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Speaker 2: when you put your foot into it. As well as that,
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Speaker 2: we've just had come on the yard a 2019 Ford
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Speaker 2: Transit bus. This is an 18-seater bus, travelled low Ks.
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Speaker 2: It is a manual. Be great for sports clubs, be
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Speaker 2: great for schools or rest homes or whatever. $ 56, 990, same
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Speaker 2: price for that. A new one is tapping $ 100, 000. for
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Speaker 2: the same vehicle. So that's something a little bit different.
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Speaker 2: I know we often talk double cabs or SUVs, but
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Speaker 2: there's two quite unique vehicles that have just come on
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Speaker 2: the guard here in the last day. So, look, as always,
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Speaker 2: we will be open until 5 o'clock today, but we
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Speaker 2: won't be open tomorrow morning between half past 9 and 12,
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Speaker 2: just for it being a long weekend. But I will
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Speaker 2: be on the other end of the phone. If anybody
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Speaker 2: needs anything, we can jack up whatever for you. So
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Speaker 2: hope everybody, again, has a great long weekend and keep
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Speaker 2: it safe out there.
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Speaker 1: Good on you, Nath. Have a goodie.
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Speaker 2: You too.
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Speaker 1: Thanks, Andy. Good afternoon and welcome to the muster on Hokonui.
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Speaker 1: Andy Muir here. The show's brought to you by Peters
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Speaker 1: Genetics on the one-year anniversary of the wind events that
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Speaker 1: occurred in the south. And we all know what that
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Speaker 1: was like. But anyway, the year goes fast, doesn't it really?
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Speaker 1: So a bit of a theme around that today. And
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Speaker 1: it is for our music too. Earth, Wind and Fire.
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Speaker 1: The song here, Boogie Wonderland. Midnight, great sun is low,
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Speaker 1: let it do.
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Speaker 3: This afternoon, partly cloudy with breezy nor'westerlies and a high
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Speaker 3: of 24.
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Speaker 4: Saturday, overcast of nor'westerlies, 14 and 20. Similar on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: It's cloudy with breezy nor'westerly, 16 and 21, Monday, sorry.
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Speaker 1: Rain occurring with breezy nor'westerly, 6 and 22. And cooler
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Speaker 1: on Tuesday, showers of breezy westerlies forming, 5 and 11.
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Speaker 1: Only soil temperatures to speak of today are Clinton at
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Speaker 1: 12.8 and Heriot at 11.7. So we're into it with
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Speaker 1: Nigel Johnston farming at Mabel Bush. We catch up with Nigel.
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Speaker 1: on a regular basis, and last time we spoke to
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Speaker 1: him it was during that rough spell of weather in September,
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Speaker 1: and it was where he reminisces about what he remembers
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Speaker 1: about 12 months ago. Chris Wilson of Advanced Agriculture has
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Speaker 1: a chat, and then Ben Dooley is part of our
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Speaker 1: South and Rural Support Trust chats. How easy is it
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Speaker 1: to get off farm when it's busy, and what can
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Speaker 1: you do to change things, or can you change things
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Speaker 1: as such? Michelle Watt joins us for the Country Crossover
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Speaker 1: and Nick Bewley out of Newstalk ZB. Big weekend of
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Speaker 1: sport up there in Christchurch. The MPC final as well.
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Speaker 1: Canterbury against Northland has been bumped to Monday, such as
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Speaker 1: the calibre of events happening in the weekend over up
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Speaker 1: there in Canterbury, at Christchurch as such. Anyway, straight into
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Speaker 1: it next with Nigel Johnston. This is The Muster, brought
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Speaker 1: to you by Peters Genetics. MUSIC Nigel Johnston farms in
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Speaker 1: Mabel Bush and catches up with us once again. G'day, Nigel.
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Speaker 1: Last time we spoke to you, it was... Well, it
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Speaker 1: wasn't sunny.
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Speaker 3: No, g'day, Andy. There was certainly a period of inclement
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Speaker 3: weather that caused a few issues, and I'm pleased to
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Speaker 3: be out the other side of it with the sun
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Speaker 3: shining on us at the moment.
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Speaker 1: So the calving and everything's concluded now, I'd say?
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Speaker 3: No, we've still got a few late calvers. We decided to...
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Speaker 3: leave the bull out longer and keep some of our
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Speaker 3: better younger cow as late carvers to enable us to
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Speaker 3: cull a bit deeper on some of those like other
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Speaker 3: confirmation type issues so that turned into a bit of
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Speaker 3: a blessing we actually had a period end of September
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Speaker 3: with very few cows calving through the worst of the
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Speaker 3: weather and also comparatively our stocking rate was a bit
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Speaker 3: lower on pasture at You can't really tell looking around
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Speaker 3: the place now. We did a bit of pasture damage.
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Speaker 3: There's a bit to be fixed. But we've got through
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Speaker 3: and out the other side. Just hoping we don't have
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Speaker 3: another labour weekend storm like last year.
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Speaker 1: It sounds like an absolute blessing, that later calving of
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Speaker 1: those younger animals.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's a pleasure to go. When I say
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Speaker 3: we've still got some calving, I think there's eight left.
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Speaker 3: So it's not.
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Speaker 3: It's not too hard to manage, and we'll be finished
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Speaker 3: before we start mating on the 4th of November. But, yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's nice to know that they would have been good
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Speaker 3: enough to be carryover, so I'm happy to be milking
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Speaker 3: them this year, especially in high milk crops.
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Speaker 1: Grass growth is rebounding around the region, still damp in
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Speaker 1: places for the obvious reason, Nigel. There at Mabel Bush,
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Speaker 1: how are you looking?
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Speaker 3: Yep, we're growing more than we're eating, and currently that
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Speaker 3: just means that we're lifting covers to get the feed
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Speaker 3: wedge looking right. We haven't created a surplus on the
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Speaker 3: dairy farm, and some of the pasture damage we did
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Speaker 3: is limiting things, so often you'll go to a paddock
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Speaker 3: and there's not as much feed there as you originally
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Speaker 3: thought because of the gaps in the middle. But things
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Speaker 3: are looking pretty rosy, and I don't think we're far
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Speaker 3: away from a surplus here. We got our hand in
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Speaker 3: managing surpluses. We took baleage off the support blocks this week,
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Speaker 3: and we've got more coming from the other blocks that
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Speaker 3: we graze our heifers on and buy into the dairy farm. So, yeah,
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Speaker 3: things are looking positive in Southie.
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Speaker 1: So you're into the bailage season then? The growth is sufficient?
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Speaker 3: Yep, and we've been hard out with money in sulphate.
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Speaker 3: We're actually on our second round of that on the
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Speaker 3: dairy farm, and I think that's paid some dividends. We
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Speaker 3: certainly would have lost a bit of sulphur in that
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Speaker 3: wet weather, so it's nice to get that replenished.
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Speaker 1: Now, your milking system is once a day as it is,
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Speaker 1: so it probably had more benefits than not.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I joke that it's problematic because we can't resort
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Speaker 3: to nonce a day milking or every second day milking.
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Speaker 3: I've run the numbers, that doesn't work for the business,
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Speaker 3: but once a day certainly has worked really well. It
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Speaker 3: takes a lot of pressure off both cows and people,
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Speaker 3: and so we've got... Happy staff and I think a
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Speaker 3: few less animal health problems on the way through. Frustrating, no,
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Speaker 3: we still get lame cows, we still get mastitis, but
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Speaker 3: all that stuff seems to be easy to manage in
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Speaker 3: the daylight.
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Speaker 1: Based on a once-a-day system, what reduction in lameness and
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Speaker 1: the likes do you think you'd have?
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Speaker 3: Hard to put a direct pin on it because, like
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Speaker 3: most things in life, you can't run a direct control system.
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Speaker 3: experiment to see what it would be like otherwise. There
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Speaker 3: is an improvement. As I say, the bit that I
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Speaker 3: really like about the system is that we've got time
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Speaker 3: to manage it properly and put good solutions in place.
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Speaker 3: It is really nice. We don't start too early in
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Speaker 3: the morning, so it's always daylight when we get here,
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Speaker 3: and daylight's your friend in terms of monitoring animal health.
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Speaker 2: And so forth.
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Speaker 1: Well, if it works for you, full credit as Sean
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Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick once said as well, Nigel, and you've been open
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Speaker 1: and transparent about the system. You're in a group there
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Speaker 1: of farmers who milk once a day and you catch
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Speaker 1: up regularly and it fits some of the synergy of
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Speaker 1: your operation, right?
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Actually, this week we went to a dairy and
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Speaker 3: zen field day at the Imtink family farm where they're
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Speaker 3: the other end of the extreme, milking twice a day,
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Speaker 3: but significant feed input and... and quite literally doing twice
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Speaker 3: the milk production as we are on a per year basis.
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Speaker 3: It was really quite inspiring stuff. The attention to detail
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Speaker 3: and the brains they've picked around the country to make
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Speaker 3: their system run like it does, it was really quite inspirational.
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Speaker 1: 12 months on from the wind event, Nigel. It's a
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Speaker 1: theme today. You've got a couple of pointers to add.
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Speaker 3: I'm just conscious of it. When the wind comes up
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Speaker 3: or like I look at the forecast of... What's coming
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Speaker 3: towards us near the end of this weekend is you
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Speaker 3: just think back and make sure we have got it right.
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Speaker 3: We've always talked about how we would get through a
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Speaker 3: prolonged power cut, so it was nice that we had
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Speaker 3: those solutions in place. But even what we learnt from
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Speaker 3: last year we've improved things with the way we've set
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Speaker 3: up with our generator such as we used to have
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Speaker 3: to pick it up with a front end loader to
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Speaker 3: get it close enough to the plug whereas now I've
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Speaker 3: just put a longer cable on it so that it's
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Speaker 3: much more user friendly it's easier to do and more
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Speaker 3: to the point easier to delegate whoever's here can work
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Speaker 3: out how to get power on and get cows milked
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Speaker 3: and More to the point, water to the cows, milk
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Speaker 3: chilled as well.
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Speaker 1: Did you have a plan in place as far as generators,
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Speaker 1: et cetera, before this occurred? I mean, just regarding emergencies
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Speaker 1: in general on the farm?
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Speaker 3: Yes, we'd spent quite some time on that, making sure
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Speaker 3: we were right. I would have obviously preferred not to
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Speaker 3: have been in that position. The bit that really stuck
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Speaker 3: out to me is.
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Speaker 3: Perhaps we weren't prepared in terms of what we should
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Speaker 3: have been doing as a community and looking after our
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Speaker 3: neighbours and keeping those lines of communication open physically, keeping
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Speaker 3: them open in terms of how phones work, but also
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Speaker 3: just making a point of getting up driveways and making
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Speaker 3: sure people were right and how we can all work together.
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Speaker 3: And I think that was one of the real highlights
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Speaker 3: for me is, yeah, we've always enjoyed our community and
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Speaker 3: that was one of those events that... showed the relationships
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Speaker 3: we've gotten and the help that people were willing to give.
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Speaker 1: That's a really interesting point you bring up and really relevant, Nigel,
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Speaker 1: regarding your neighbours. And it's one thing stopping and having
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Speaker 1: a five-minute chinwag on the road when you're passing, but
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Speaker 1: when push comes to shove and these events occur, it's
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Speaker 1: about looking out for each other as well. Especially where
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Speaker 1: I used to be, you're up a dead-end road. It was, yeah,
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Speaker 1: there was only one way in and one way out.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I've actually been doing a bit of community-focused stuff in
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Speaker 3: my role with the Osprey committee, I was actually, um,
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Speaker 3: I ran a, um, part of the competition that the,
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Speaker 3: I think Mel Young from girls high was on the
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Speaker 3: radio last week. Wasn't she?
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Speaker 1: She was, she was fantastic competition. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Uh, that, it's pretty inspiring to see, um, what's out
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Speaker 3: there to know that we've got a school and teachers
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Speaker 3: like that. I offering those, uh, the subjects, um, she
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Speaker 3: was talking about agriculture and agribusiness at a school level.
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Speaker 3: It's really quite powerful stuff. Um, but then taking it
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Speaker 3: to the next level, supporting the Young Farmers Club, running
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Speaker 3: their own competition, and to see a significant number of
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Speaker 3: the students there, not only passionate about agriculture, but their
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Speaker 3: skill set was quite literally inspiring.
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Speaker 1: And that makes this decision by the Government, by National,
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Speaker 1: who want to take agriculture out of the Year 11
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Speaker 1: curriculum even more ridiculous.
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Speaker 3: Very much so, because I know how difficult it's been
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Speaker 3: to get it in there, and I can see the
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Speaker 3: argument some schools struggle to find the right teachers that
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Speaker 3: are willing to take that space. I don't think that's
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Speaker 3: a good enough excuse to penalise everyone. My girls both
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Speaker 3: did agri-business through Girls High and both of them would
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Speaker 3: say it was that analysis of whole systems. Like when
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Speaker 3: you go to a farm, you talk about everything from
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Speaker 3: growing the grass, to feeding the stock, to turning it
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Speaker 3: into a saleable product and how you sell and transport
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Speaker 3: that product. It's the culmination of all the individual disciplines
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Speaker 3: that you learn at school.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Nigel. Good on you. Thanks for your time and
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Speaker 1: we'll catch up again. Excellent. Thanks, Andy. Nigel Johnston, farming
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Speaker 1: at Mabel Bush. Up next on the muster, Chris Wilson
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Speaker 1: of Advanced Agriculture. Welcome back to the muster. Chris Wilson
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Speaker 1: of Advanced Agriculture joins us on this beautiful afternoon down
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Speaker 1: in the deep south. G'day Chris.
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Speaker 2: Afternoon, Andy.
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Speaker 6: How are you?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty good. Well, you'll know as much as anybody
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Speaker 1: regarding the situation. You would have been pretty busy at
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Speaker 1: the moment. You'll be busy at the moment.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think we've packed two or three months of
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Speaker 7: work into about 10 or 12 days, it feels like, Andy.
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Speaker 7: But yeah, people feel like they're getting ahead now, which
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Speaker 7: is good.
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Speaker 1: Does it feel like that? Three weeks of work into
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Speaker 1: a five-day scenario from your guys' perspective?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's been pretty hectic since the sun came out, really.
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Speaker 7: the mud dried out in the paddocks and the tractor
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Speaker 7: started rolling and then the phone hasn't stopped ringing ever since.
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Speaker 1: So, yeah, it's good to see. I seen a paddock
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Speaker 1: on Kingston Crossing yesterday. It looked like baleage or silage.
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Speaker 1: I think it was silage that had been done and
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Speaker 1: looked like hard yakker on some of the headlands. So
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Speaker 1: still pretty damp out there in places.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 7: I guess the surface mud's dried out, but there's good
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Speaker 7: soil moisture underneath, which might be a blessing for us
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Speaker 7: going forward, depending on what El Nino brings us.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see how that plays out. Now, Bud, Sag,
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Speaker 1: what's been the focus at the moment? Just take the obvious. Really?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, just preparation. Yeah, soil preparation, crop preparation, and getting
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Speaker 7: seed on farm has been our biggest battle for the
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Speaker 7: last couple of weeks. The seed ordering's been compressed into
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Speaker 7: a pretty tight window, so the guys have been working
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Speaker 7: double shifts down in Invercargill and Clutha to get the
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Speaker 7: seed mixed up and get it out and ready. So
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Speaker 7: hopefully we've got lots of happy customers out there.
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Speaker 1: I was coming home last night from the same trip
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Speaker 1: and the amount of tractors that were operating around the region. Yes,
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Speaker 1: there were mowers going, but a lot of people doing
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Speaker 1: cultivation as well. And it was a sight to behold
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Speaker 1: after last time we spoke anyway.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's just a totally different environment out there now.
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Speaker 7: And yeah, the ground conditions are good now. So yeah,
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Speaker 7: and the soil temperatures are rising and the long-term forecast
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Speaker 7: doesn't look too shabby. So yeah, there's a lot of
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Speaker 7: stuff starting to go on the ground now.
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Speaker 1: Are people catching up on spraying?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think so. Yep, yep, there's been a few
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Speaker 7: cereal timings that haven't been perfect, but on the whole,
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Speaker 7: the back's broken on most of the growth regulators and
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Speaker 7: T1 timings on the cereals. So, yeah, and the grain
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Speaker 7: crops are actually looking pretty good. They've come through the
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Speaker 7: spring and looking a good colour now and they're soaking
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Speaker 7: up that nitrogen and starting to darken up. So, yeah,
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Speaker 7: everything's looking pretty positive there.
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Speaker 1: It's fair to say the last two to three weeks
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Speaker 1: has seen a change for next season. Is it too
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Speaker 1: early to say that as far as the crops go?
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Speaker 7: I think, no, it's more of the usual. I think
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Speaker 7: the cereal numbers are pretty steady, probably a wee uptick
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Speaker 7: in beet numbers with the amount of people raising dairy
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Speaker 7: calves out there and wanting to finish some beef themselves. But, yeah,
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Speaker 7: everything's just more of the same, really, just slightly bigger numbers.
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Speaker 1: Regarding fodder beet preparation in the paddock, what's something for
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Speaker 1: people to keep in mind? Because it can be quite
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Speaker 1: a process, to be fair.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, again, not rushing things. If you'd happily sow it
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Speaker 7: into a young grass paddock, you'd put it in beet.
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Speaker 7: So you want a fine, firm seed bed, not lumpy
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Speaker 7: at all. Not just a power harrow over the top
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Speaker 7: of last year's crop ground and hope like hell. You
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Speaker 7: want a good dried, nice well aerated seed bed with
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Speaker 7: fine firm soil on top so you've got really good
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Speaker 7: seed soil contact and the pre-emerge works a lot better
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Speaker 7: if the paddock's nice and smooth as well. Most of
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Speaker 7: our beet actually doesn't go in until November these days
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Speaker 7: so if you're in the first half of November that's
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Speaker 7: right in the window of ideal sowing in my opinion. So, yeah,
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Speaker 7: just get it right before you start and everything else
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Speaker 7: goes smoothly. Quite often it can save you an extra
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Speaker 7: spray if the pre-emergent works better as well. Yeah, you
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Speaker 7: get much better weed control.
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Speaker 1: Any issues with supply chains regarding chemical, et cetera?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, there's a bit of strain on transport. Yeah, everything's
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Speaker 7: taking a little bit longer than usual, but, yeah, the
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Speaker 7: more organised... Everybody is. If they're needing something, a couple
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Speaker 7: of days heads-up notice is always much appreciated from.
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Speaker 2: Us and our team.
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Speaker 7: So, yeah, but other than that, yeah, we're getting through it.
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Speaker 7: It's always peak season. It's always pretty chaotic for the
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Speaker 7: next eight weeks. But we seem to survive every year somehow.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So what's the story of the team? Who's
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Speaker 1: on call over the weekend?
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Speaker 7: Well, I think everyone would be able to pick up
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Speaker 7: their phone. Yeah, I haven't actually looked at it. who's
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Speaker 7: on annual leave, but it's that time of year where
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Speaker 7: you can't ignore a farmer that sometimes might just need
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Speaker 7: a question answered or sometimes needs something dropped off in
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Speaker 7: a hurry, but yeah, I think most of the team
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Speaker 7: are around somewhere, Andy.
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Speaker 1: Now, it's the anniversary of the wins from this time
18:50
Speaker 1: last year, just around lunchtime actually, just past. What's your
18:54
Speaker 1: biggest recollection around that event, Chris?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I remember it well. I was driving back from
19:00
Speaker 7: Waikāia and three separate occasions I had trees fall over
19:04
Speaker 7: the road in front of me and power lines around.
19:08
Speaker 7: It was unbelievable really. It didn't seem too panicky at
19:15
Speaker 7: the time but when you look back you think that
19:17
Speaker 7: was a hell of a drive home. I had to
19:19
Speaker 7: drive through paddocks and open gates and get around roads.
19:23
Speaker 7: It took me a couple of hours to get back
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Speaker 7: from Waikato. It was once in a lifetime hopefully.
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Speaker 1: Live power lines dropping on the road, that's not fun
19:31
Speaker 1: for anybody. No, no.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, but credit to the power guys. Man, we had
19:38
Speaker 7: power back up the next day. I think the line
19:41
Speaker 7: on our road was broken in four places when I
19:42
Speaker 7: got home, so they did an incredible job to get
19:46
Speaker 7: everyone up and running again.
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Speaker 1: I know, it just seems not that long ago. But anyway, mate, look,
19:50
Speaker 1: now we've seen the blue ranges around the province of
19:53
Speaker 1: the White Canopies. Somebody wants to get in touch with
19:55
Speaker 1: you guys. What do they do?
19:57
Speaker 7: Again, Andy, our website's probably the... The most efficient way
20:02
Speaker 7: because you can search by area on our team. So, yeah,
20:06
Speaker 7: you better find the rep that's closest to you under
20:08
Speaker 7: our website, advancedag.co.nz. Otherwise, flick us a message on Facebook
20:14
Speaker 7: or ring our 800 number.
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Speaker 1: Good on you, Chris. Enjoy the long weekend. Good to
20:20
Speaker 1: catch up.
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Speaker 4: Cheers, Andy.
20:21
Speaker 6: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Chris Wilson of Advanced Agriculture. Everybody's got a story around
20:28
Speaker 1: this time last year, right? Won't forget that in a hurry.
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Speaker 1: Ben Dooley's up next as well, talking about this in
20:34
Speaker 1: the Southland Rural Support Trust slot where we're looking at,
20:37
Speaker 1: talking about resilience on farm and just a few toolbox,
20:41
Speaker 1: a few toolbox ideas for the top three inches. Say
20:46
Speaker 1: your prayers, though you don't care. You dance and she
20:50
Speaker 1: can hear. Thanks to the Southland Rural Support Trust. We're
20:56
Speaker 1: catching up with different farmers from different operations around the
20:59
Speaker 1: South as we look back at the previous couple of
21:02
Speaker 1: months and just sharing a few tips around mindset today.
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Speaker 1: Ironically enough, it's all about the wind events that occurred
21:09
Speaker 1: 12 months ago. Where has that time gone, I tell you? Anyway,
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Speaker 1: Ben Dooley's catching up with us, a muster regularly here. Sheep,
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Speaker 1: beef and YouTube farmer at Mimihau, just out of Wyndham. G'day, Dules.
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Speaker 3: G'day, Andy.
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Speaker 6: How's it going?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty good. Look, straight off the bat, 12 months ago,
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Speaker 1: what do you remember from the wind event?
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Speaker 6: Ironically, I've just ducked away from the tailing pen today. Well,
21:31
Speaker 6: we're making a start on that job. We were tailing
21:34
Speaker 6: our pet lambs last year, the hand-read ones, whatever you
21:38
Speaker 6: want to call them, in the hay shed. And we
21:40
Speaker 6: weren't having good progress, and we looked around and saw
21:42
Speaker 6: the clouds coming, and I just said, get home now.
21:45
Speaker 6: So everyone dropped tools and turned the gas bottle off,
21:47
Speaker 6: and we left. On the way down, it hit like
21:50
Speaker 6: a wall. There was timber everywhere. We got the kids
21:54
Speaker 6: the hell out of the road and as I drove down,
21:56
Speaker 6: Sarah looked back and there's a big oak tree in
21:58
Speaker 6: our driveway and I sort of had to go under
22:00
Speaker 6: it because if I went the other side, this big
22:02
Speaker 6: max that would come at me. And about two seconds
22:05
Speaker 6: after I drove under it, a great big branch come
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Speaker 6: down and yeah, we got to the house, shut the
22:09
Speaker 6: garage doors and then I just went around. There was
22:13
Speaker 6: a few bits of machinery I was a bit worried about.
22:16
Speaker 6: Made sure everything was okay, all out in the open
22:18
Speaker 6: and yeah, got the hell home and hunkered down until
22:21
Speaker 6: it was over Yeah, she was a bit of a... Oh, yeah,
22:24
Speaker 6: certainly the first time I'd ever experienced anything like that.
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Speaker 1: Well, it was short and sharp, 45 minutes or so,
22:30
Speaker 1: but the damage was done around the province or the region.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'd say that the worst of it was probably
22:35
Speaker 6: only five or ten minutes here. The absolute worst of it,
22:38
Speaker 6: and then it carried on. It did ease off a
22:39
Speaker 6: bit after, as you say, about 45 minutes, but the
22:42
Speaker 6: timber that come down on this place was just phenomenal,
22:44
Speaker 6: and we got lucky compared to a lot of people.
22:47
Speaker 6: We had very minimal fence damage, no power lines or
22:49
Speaker 6: anything around the farm hurt.
22:51
Speaker 7: Um.
22:52
Speaker 6: But just the macrocarpers around the place, just the small
22:55
Speaker 6: branches or the medium-sized branches that come out of them,
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Speaker 6: and some of them flew 100 feet before they landed
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Speaker 6: on the ground sort of thing. So, yeah, she was big.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean, farming's got its challenges without relying on Mother Nature,
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Speaker 1: and we've had three springs in a row now where
23:09
Speaker 1: it's been wet. It hasn't been a lot of fun.
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Speaker 1: How have you found it yourself? Have you found it challenging?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, look, if somebody would give me her address, I'd
23:18
Speaker 6: go and take one for the team, I think, actually,
23:20
Speaker 6: and end that problem, jokingly. But, yeah, no, it has
23:24
Speaker 6: been a challenge. We sort of look back and we go, man,
23:26
Speaker 6: are we just getting soft? You know, is this the
23:28
Speaker 6: way it's always been? But you talk to previous generations
23:31
Speaker 6: and they say, you know, they might have had 80
23:33
Speaker 6: years close to being this bad, but certainly not three
23:36
Speaker 6: in a row. So it does get you down. And
23:38
Speaker 6: as a sheep farmer right now, the first one was
23:40
Speaker 6: tough because prices were poor. The last two have been...
23:45
Speaker 6: tough knowing, you know, this was our time to shine,
23:48
Speaker 6: so to speak, and it just takes the cream off
23:50
Speaker 6: the crop, and we'll still be all right. We're still
23:53
Speaker 6: financially going to get through okay, but as sheep farmers,
23:55
Speaker 6: we just get sick of battling. We're just forever battling along,
23:58
Speaker 6: and we never seem to be getting very far ahead
24:00
Speaker 6: in the last sort of 10 years. So, yeah, certainly
24:04
Speaker 6: mentally it can be a bit draining at times.
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Speaker 1: You raise the issue around price this year, though. That
24:08
Speaker 1: is something to be celebrated. I mean, yes, there's been losses,
24:11
Speaker 1: but what you've got, you've got, and ultimately it's still
24:14
Speaker 1: going to be worth good coin.
24:17
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely. It is worth noting and just thinking, or
24:21
Speaker 6: maybe it's not worth thinking about, but there's no point
24:23
Speaker 6: ignoring how much loss potential was there, but that is
24:26
Speaker 6: a completely separate thing to the pricing, and the fact
24:29
Speaker 6: that we have these amazing record high prices is absolutely awesome.
24:33
Speaker 6: Absolutely stoked with everything that's happened to get to that point.
24:36
Speaker 6: You know, a lot of it's circumstantial, but there's been
24:37
Speaker 6: a lot of work going to that too. So free
24:39
Speaker 6: trade deals and marketing and everything is coming together as well.
24:42
Speaker 6: So definitely got to celebrate those wins.
24:45
Speaker 1: A lot of people say the message about getting off
24:48
Speaker 1: farm when you can. I'm one of those people too.
24:51
Speaker 1: But you're saying it yourself from the cold face, actually
24:54
Speaker 1: being there and getting off farm isn't easy.
24:58
Speaker 6: Absolutely. Like, you know, I'm a big advocate. Buy the
25:00
Speaker 6: damn boat. Go and use the bloody thing. Some people
25:02
Speaker 6: would say we do far too much of it. I'd
25:04
Speaker 6: say we don't do enough. But, yeah, just at times
25:07
Speaker 6: like this, you know, we are actually on tomorrow heading
25:10
Speaker 6: up to Ranford. It's 40th, provided everything goes well today.
25:13
Speaker 6: And that will be the first labour weekend in a
25:16
Speaker 6: long time, since I was a kid probably, that I've
25:18
Speaker 6: actually been off farm. Because it is a time of
25:21
Speaker 6: year where it's bloody hard to get away. You've got
25:23
Speaker 6: to make the most of those opportunities sometimes, depending on
25:25
Speaker 6: your system, but certainly here. you know, if the weather's
25:28
Speaker 6: good and there's groundwork not done, well, that's happening. Or
25:31
Speaker 6: if tailing's not done, like now, that's happening. That's taken
25:35
Speaker 6: absolute priority. And then when you've got the grunt work done,
25:38
Speaker 6: you can get away. But, you know, I look at
25:40
Speaker 6: the forecast for next week and I go, man, if
25:42
Speaker 6: there's something that needs done today, we're doing it because
25:46
Speaker 6: next week's not looking very pleasant. And it just does
25:49
Speaker 6: make it a bit challenging sometimes to get away. And
25:51
Speaker 6: sometimes you hear that messaging of, oh, you've just got
25:53
Speaker 6: to get off farm. It's like, sometimes people saying that
25:57
Speaker 6: who do a lot of it, and by all means,
25:59
Speaker 6: I'll take my hat off to them, but they're not
26:01
Speaker 6: living the same reality that those of us are, that
26:03
Speaker 6: we don't have staff, we don't have someone to leave
26:06
Speaker 6: the farm with when we go away for a week
26:07
Speaker 6: or something like that. We're here. We're largely on our
26:12
Speaker 6: own here. We've got friends that would do it for us, absolutely,
26:14
Speaker 6: but we can't just drop tools and go because we're
26:16
Speaker 6: feeling a bit off. We've got to get the stuff done,
26:19
Speaker 6: and then when the work is done, we make the
26:21
Speaker 6: most of it.
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Speaker 1: Do you think it's a case of having to change
26:23
Speaker 1: that reality, perhaps, or it is what it is?
26:27
Speaker 6: In our reality or in their reality?
26:30
Speaker 1: Either or.
26:31
Speaker 6: It's certainly something we're conscious of, and it's certainly something
26:34
Speaker 6: we're trying to reduce our spring workload. But everything you
26:38
Speaker 6: look at, it's like, well, if we take that out
26:40
Speaker 6: of the picture, this is what we lose. And we're
26:42
Speaker 6: just making that decision that we're happy to carry on,
26:45
Speaker 6: not quite to carry on this way, but we're happy
26:48
Speaker 6: to put that effort in the spring and make the
26:50
Speaker 6: most of it in the rest of the year. That's
26:52
Speaker 6: just the decision we've made, and we're happy with it.
26:54
Speaker 6: You know, winter's another one. You can find people to
26:56
Speaker 6: come look after your farm in winter if they're available,
26:59
Speaker 6: and that's sometimes not a bad thing to do, and
27:00
Speaker 6: we're doing that. But winter, it can be hard enough
27:03
Speaker 6: to get away from your farm over winter if you're
27:05
Speaker 6: a bit particular about how things are done. We've got
27:08
Speaker 6: a young guy who did some work for us this year,
27:09
Speaker 6: and he was bang on the money, so that was great.
27:12
Speaker 6: But yeah, it's a whole lot easier when you don't
27:15
Speaker 6: have those obligations, you know, looking after young stock and
27:18
Speaker 6: everything else. Once weaning's happened, once everything else has happened,
27:21
Speaker 6: you get into summer and autumn. And let's be honest,
27:23
Speaker 6: autumn's a nice time to get away too.
27:25
Speaker 4: So, yeah.
27:27
Speaker 1: Dules, you've got a big following on social media. How
27:29
Speaker 1: much does communication to mates and the likes play a
27:32
Speaker 1: part in your life?
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Speaker 6: You've got Snapchat and stuff like that hugely. I spend
27:38
Speaker 6: far too much time on Snapchat probably. There's probably six
27:41
Speaker 6: or seven guys that I'm messaging most days. But, yeah,
27:45
Speaker 6: it's a great way to just keep talking to people
27:47
Speaker 6: and just keep in touch and just realise the challenges
27:50
Speaker 6: everyone else has and that you're not alone and that's
27:52
Speaker 6: a part of it. Most of it's just talking crap
27:55
Speaker 6: and having fun. But, no, it certainly does play a
27:57
Speaker 6: big part in it.
27:58
Speaker 1: Like you say, you're hoping to get a little bit
28:00
Speaker 1: of a break over the weekend?
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Speaker 6: Yep, yep, head up. We'll see what time we get
28:05
Speaker 6: away on Saturday or tomorrow. It'll be probably about lunchtime.
28:09
Speaker 6: Party starts at 3pm at the Wedderburn pub, so that
28:11
Speaker 6: should be good. and we'll just see how fast we
28:15
Speaker 6: come back on Sunday. It could be one of those
28:17
Speaker 6: ones where we might not be too good Sunday morning,
28:20
Speaker 6: so it might take a while. But, yeah, we will
28:23
Speaker 6: get back when we're back in 24 hours or so
28:26
Speaker 6: off-farm and not thinking about it, and it should be
28:28
Speaker 6: bloody good.
28:28
Speaker 1: Good on you, Ben. Enjoy the weekend.
28:31
Speaker 3: Cheers, Andy.
28:34
Speaker 1: Ben Dooley, talking about mindset, and he's dead right too.
28:37
Speaker 1: Being told to get off farm and go and do
28:39
Speaker 1: something isn't that easy sometimes. So it's about looking at
28:42
Speaker 1: that balance, about looking at ways that you can just
28:45
Speaker 1: sit there and think, yeah, well, actually, I'm going to
28:48
Speaker 1: go and do this instead of do something. Do something
28:50
Speaker 1: that makes you happy. That's what it boils down to.
28:52
Speaker 1: Of course, the Southland Rural Support Trust, 0800 787 254
28:56
Speaker 1: for a free confidential chat. Michelle, what's up next in
29:01
Speaker 1: the Country Crossover? Michelle Watt is Executive Producer of The
29:20
Speaker 1: Country and joins us out of Dunedin once again. G'day Michelle.
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Speaker 5: G'day Andy and beautiful sunny day here in Dunedin. Long
29:28
Speaker 5: may it last and long may we don't have a
29:30
Speaker 5: repeat of this time last year because do you remember
29:33
Speaker 5: this time last year? This time on Friday last year
29:35
Speaker 5: in the afternoon. It was crazy, I remember sitting in
29:37
Speaker 5: this building having no idea what was going on on
29:40
Speaker 5: until I got home.
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Speaker 8: We had no power.
29:42
Speaker 1: I actually had the day off work and I was
29:43
Speaker 1: just walking home from town and all of a sudden
29:46
Speaker 1: hail just came in sideways. It was unreal and I
29:49
Speaker 1: think I just took shelter behind someone's house because it
29:51
Speaker 1: was hitting you that hard due to the velocity of
29:55
Speaker 1: the rain and the wind mixed in together. It was hideous,
29:58
Speaker 1: but it was like 45 minutes and the damage was done.
30:02
Speaker 8: Oh, it was insane.
30:03
Speaker 5: I mean, my house is up on a hill on
30:04
Speaker 5: the peninsula, so we get the full blast of a
30:07
Speaker 5: southerly or mainly southerlies or northerlies. And it felt like
30:11
Speaker 5: it shook the whole house. But the power, I just
30:13
Speaker 5: remember being in here and being absolutely.
30:15
Speaker 8: Oblivious to what was going on.
30:17
Speaker 5: Because down in downtown Dunedin here, you were getting the wind,
30:20
Speaker 5: but it wasn't quite as bad. You could hear it outside,
30:23
Speaker 5: but because we're down on the main street of Dunedin,
30:26
Speaker 5: it wasn't as bad as being up on a hill
30:28
Speaker 5: or down on the flat somewhere or something like that.
30:30
Speaker 5: But it's absolutely insane. I've never seen anything like it.
30:33
Speaker 5: The damage that was caused across... You know, Canterbury, South Targo,
30:38
Speaker 5: you can still see it in some places.
30:40
Speaker 8: Can't you?
30:41
Speaker 1: There is nothing worse than election fatigue.
30:43
Speaker 8: Oh, absolutely. There's been a lot.
30:45
Speaker 5: And I think, actually, I contribute a lot of that
30:47
Speaker 5: to the fact that now social media plays a massive
30:50
Speaker 5: part in election campaigning. I mean, it's there all the time, right?
30:53
Speaker 5: You can't escape it. In the old days, when you
30:55
Speaker 5: and I were 18, Andy, which wasn't.
30:58
Speaker 8: You know, too long ago.
30:59
Speaker 1: It was longer than me than you.
31:01
Speaker 8: Well, mine was still in the 2000s.
31:02
Speaker 5: But, you know, social media election campaigning wasn't really a
31:07
Speaker 5: thing at all.
31:09
Speaker 8: Not as big as it is now. And now you
31:11
Speaker 8: just can't escape it. It's everywhere.
31:12
Speaker 5: And there's some really interesting, funny sort of stuff. But still,
31:16
Speaker 5: it's how it's turned into like this absolute crazy thing
31:20
Speaker 5: and you just can't escape it.
31:21
Speaker 1: It does.
31:22
Speaker 8: It does wear you down a little bit.
31:24
Speaker 1: Ag in schools, the debate on the change regarding agriculture
31:29
Speaker 1: being a standalone subject in year 11. This has got
31:32
Speaker 1: a lot of traction this week, and rightly so.
31:35
Speaker 5: Yeah, I found this a bit of a shock, Andy.
31:38
Speaker 5: Removing it as a standalone subject in year 11. Now,
31:41
Speaker 5: we were talking to Fielding High School's principal, Nathan Stewart,
31:44
Speaker 5: earlier in the week, and agriculture is a huge part
31:46
Speaker 5: of that school's history. They have 1,700 students at that school,
31:49
Speaker 5: which is insane, because Fielding is not really It's not
31:52
Speaker 5: the biggest place. So they get a lot of, obviously,
31:54
Speaker 5: catchment from outside and around surrounding areas. But there's a
31:57
Speaker 5: few other schools that teach ag around the country as well.
31:59
Speaker 8: I think St.
32:00
Speaker 5: Kevin's in Oamaru also does agricultural, has an agricultural program
32:04
Speaker 5: as well. And some of the other schools do too.
32:06
Speaker 5: But this school also has its own 98 hectare farm
32:10
Speaker 5: and run dairy cattle and sheep and beef. So the
32:12
Speaker 5: kids actually get to learn practical farming skills as well
32:16
Speaker 5: as part of that course. The sad thing about removing it,
32:19
Speaker 5: and this is my opinion, Andy, is that if you
32:22
Speaker 5: remove this as a standalone subject, you're removing it not
32:26
Speaker 5: only for the rural kids, but the non-rural kids.
32:28
Speaker 8: So it doesn't give them an option.
32:30
Speaker 5: It also removes it for the fact that science isn't,
32:34
Speaker 5: If you put science all together, now I studied science,
32:36
Speaker 5: I enjoy science, but a lot of kids don't see
32:38
Speaker 5: the application of it. Ag gives an application. It gives
32:41
Speaker 5: a way to apply it to something. You use it
32:43
Speaker 5: on the farm all the time without realising it.
32:45
Speaker 1: You bring St Kevin's in there, that's my old stomping ground,
32:48
Speaker 1: and the fact is you didn't get detention, you had
32:50
Speaker 1: to go and cut gorse for an hour instead.
32:53
Speaker 5: That actually sounds like a good punishment, actually, doesn't it?
32:56
Speaker 5: I mean, you imagine getting punished by, you have to
32:58
Speaker 5: go dig up all the thistles.
32:59
Speaker 1: Oh, it was very much like that, the gorse, right?
33:02
Speaker 1: You can go gorse cutting for an hour. You're being
33:03
Speaker 1: a little shite. That's just how it worked. I mean,
33:07
Speaker 1: there was a working farm there, and just towards the
33:10
Speaker 1: end of my time, there was very much so a
33:13
Speaker 1: bit of an ag programme involved, like ag and economics.
33:16
Speaker 1: Because they weren't available locally, you could claim a bursary
33:19
Speaker 1: if you studied afar.
33:21
Speaker 5: And the thing is, too, there's so many more careers
33:23
Speaker 5: available now in ag compared to when, you know, when
33:25
Speaker 5: you and I were at school, Andy, you know, you
33:27
Speaker 5: think about doing agriculture.
33:29
Speaker 8: And most of my friends went to Lincoln. A lot
33:31
Speaker 8: of them did.
33:32
Speaker 5: And studied accounting or, you know, commerce or business or
33:35
Speaker 5: farming and things like that. Or some went to Telford,
33:37
Speaker 5: Polytech as well, which is still down in Balclutha. And
33:40
Speaker 5: I think it's... There's a lot more to it now.
33:44
Speaker 5: You can rise up right through the ranks of some
33:46
Speaker 5: of these massive companies. I mean, look at companies like Holter.
33:50
Speaker 5: You've got companies like Fonterra that provide sort of graduate
33:52
Speaker 5: programs as well.
33:53
Speaker 8: Dairy and Zed have options.
33:55
Speaker 5: There's just so many options other than just being on
33:57
Speaker 5: farm that are related to agriculture now. And I think
34:00
Speaker 5: it would be a shame to lose that for those
34:02
Speaker 5: kids that maybe might not stay beyond year 11 as well.
34:07
Speaker 1: Now, you've got a big act coming to Dunedin next year.
34:09
Speaker 1: What's their name? The Jamie's Benefit? Hang on, not them.
34:15
Speaker 8: It would be good if it was them. Jamie would be.
34:19
Speaker 1: Excited if it was Earth, Wind and Fire. Geez, a
34:21
Speaker 1: boomer would be on fire if it was them coming
34:23
Speaker 1: into town.
34:24
Speaker 8: Don't get him too excited.
34:26
Speaker 1: No, Stathis and Chasey called him Stace and Chalice. Geez,
34:29
Speaker 1: I hate to think what he called Duran Duran if
34:31
Speaker 1: he got that wrong.
34:32
Speaker 2: Here we go.
34:33
Speaker 1: This is Chase and Stathis. Just a sample of it.
34:36
Speaker 1: I'm not going to annoy too many people. You either
34:38
Speaker 1: love it or loathe it. This is a remix with
34:40
Speaker 1: an artist called Becky Hill. So that's Chasing Status with
34:51
Speaker 1: Becky Hill. That song is called Disconnect, and that's the
34:54
Speaker 1: artist coming to Dunedin next year, and it'll be a
34:56
Speaker 1: good night.
34:58
Speaker 8: I think it'll be great.
34:58
Speaker 5: It's so good to finally break that entertainment drought here
35:02
Speaker 5: in Dunedin with Forsyth Bar. And also we've got Brian
35:04
Speaker 5: Adams playing an acoustic set. His Bare Bones tour is
35:08
Speaker 5: coming to the Town Hall as well, which will be
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Speaker 5: another really fantastic show. But I believe Chasing Status, of course,
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Speaker 5: they've played at Glastonbury quite a few times. I think three,
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Speaker 5: maybe four times. They've been around since 2003 and great
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Speaker 5: DMV sort of band, especially when.
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Speaker 1: Just describe DMV. People don't know what DMV is. I
35:28
Speaker 1: think it might be some dodgy thing that you find
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Speaker 1: at 4am in the middle of Christchurch.
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Speaker 8: It does sound a little bit like that.
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Speaker 4: Drum and bass.
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Speaker 1: Drum and bass.
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Speaker 5: So it's interesting remix music in New Zealand. Drum and
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Speaker 5: bass is a big part of that. I expect the
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Speaker 5: crowd to be massive down here. The students down here
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Speaker 5: love drum and bass. But this concert will be absolutely fantastic.
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Speaker 5: I think you'll get quite a few age groups. It's
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Speaker 5: the biggest indoor concert they've ever played too, Andy.
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Speaker 1: Righto, Michelle. We'll leave it there. Just very quickly as well,
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Speaker 1: did you stay awake and your nana stayed until midnight
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Speaker 1: watching cricket?
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Speaker 8: Actually, no, I fell asleep before it even started, Andy.
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Speaker 8: So how good is that?
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Speaker 1: How are you going to go watching status and chase
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Speaker 1: if you can't stay awake till 8 o'clock?
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Speaker 8: Oh, you know, I might have to get back into
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Speaker 8: the Red Bulls like the old days.
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Speaker 1: Good on you, Michelle. Enjoy the long weekend. You too, mate. Michelle,
36:18
Speaker 1: what in the country crossover thinks of Bioactive Soils? Earth,
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Speaker 1: Wind and Fire is the name of this band. Fire,
36:24
Speaker 1: Earth and Wind, depending on who you listen to, I suppose.
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Speaker 1: Up next, Nick Fuley out of Newstalk ZB. Let me
36:30
Speaker 1: tell you. Let me tell you. This is the muster,
36:38
Speaker 1: and that song is called December by Earth, Wind and Fire,
36:41
Speaker 1: who have also put out a version called September. In
36:44
Speaker 1: case you were wondering, but Nick Bewley of Newstalk ZB
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Speaker 1: joins us next. Good afternoon. It's a big weekend of
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Speaker 1: sport in the O3 capital.
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Speaker 4: It certainly is, Andy. Good afternoon to you and your listeners,
36:56
Speaker 4: and I do wonder when some of the fine folk
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Speaker 4: in And Gore have made the venture north to take
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Speaker 4: in some of this. It all started on Wednesday, of course.
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Speaker 4: A couple of fantastic Southlanders and the Heffernan twins doing
37:08
Speaker 4: a good job for the Silver Ferns, getting the second-test
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Speaker 4: win over Australia. We had the Blackcaps in action yesterday.
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Speaker 4: 455 runs in a T20. Goodness me, India winning that one.
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Speaker 4: But back in action at Hagley Oval again tomorrow. rugby
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Speaker 4: league world cup doubleheader kiwi firms in france and kiwis
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Speaker 4: and cook islands at our shiny new stadium on sunday
37:30
Speaker 4: and speaking of the shiny new stadium uh the npc
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Speaker 4: final bumps to labor day monday uh canterbury northland so
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Speaker 4: i was just saying to a couple of colleagues in
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Speaker 4: the office uh this morning given i was at the
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Speaker 4: coffee machine for the third time already uh it probably
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Speaker 4: has been the busiest week of my tenure here at
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Speaker 4: zb but uh Sort of a pig in the proverbial,
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Speaker 4: I suppose you could say, Andy, these are the weeks
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Speaker 4: you live for. And it's just been a fantastic vibe
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Speaker 4: around the place to have such top tier quality sport
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Speaker 4: in the city.
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Speaker 1: The MPC final, we'll start with this. A lot of complaining.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you were cold at the last stadium, but
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Speaker 1: it sounds as though it's too hot in the new stadium.
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Speaker 1: What's your happy medium there?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, will we have to roll out Goldilocks or something,
38:13
Speaker 4: will we? The irony is not lost on me, Andy,
38:17
Speaker 4: after so many years. Look, I've spent four and a
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Speaker 4: bit years out at Apollo Project Stadium in Addington, and
38:23
Speaker 4: I know back in the day with Brian Ashby and
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Speaker 4: Corey Flynn, once famously rocked up with an electric blanket
38:30
Speaker 4: to plug in for a game in June. Yeah, we
38:34
Speaker 4: complain when it's too cold. Now we're complaining when it's
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Speaker 4: too hot, which could actually be an issue Monday. It's
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Speaker 4: not quite as hot, at least on the forecast, as
38:43
Speaker 4: it was quarterfinal week when Canterbury beat Waikato. But I'm
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Speaker 4: not 100% sure whether it's a design fault. I have
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Speaker 4: heard there was some issues where the fans within the
38:56
Speaker 4: stadium weren't at full tit. for that quarterfinal week, which
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Speaker 4: then meant the inside temperature reached 31 degrees and the
39:05
Speaker 4: outside air temperature was about 23, 24 degrees. So with
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Speaker 4: a 2.10pm kick-off, I think it's going to be pretty
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Speaker 4: sticky and sweaty in there again, which only adds to
39:14
Speaker 4: what promises to be a fantastic occasion and spectacle. We've
39:17
Speaker 4: seen a lot of great, entertaining running rugby, and I
39:19
Speaker 4: think with the heat, that just adds to that, right?
39:22
Speaker 4: You're going to see perhaps a little bit more fatigue
39:24
Speaker 4: in the contest earlier, coaches having to think about when
39:27
Speaker 4: to turn to their benches, And, uh, some exciting backs
39:31
Speaker 4: on both teams in Canterbury and Northland looking to expose
39:34
Speaker 4: some tired big boys. So, yeah, it'll be certainly if
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Speaker 4: you are going to the MPC final on Monday and
39:41
Speaker 4: you have a seat in the east stand, In terms
39:46
Speaker 4: of the direction of the sun, yeah, I'd slip, slop,
39:49
Speaker 4: slap all of the above and stay hydrated too because
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Speaker 4: I can tell you for a fact it does get
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Speaker 4: hot in there.
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Speaker 1: But you've got the Kiwis playing as well. The Rugby
39:57
Speaker 1: League World Cup comes to town.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, can't wait for this. Taking the family along. You know,
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Speaker 4: this is the only opportunity we get to see the
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Speaker 4: Kiwis on New Zealand soil. Oh, what a spectacle it
40:08
Speaker 4: was last week and a bit of a heartbreaker to
40:10
Speaker 4: lose to the kangaroos over there in Sydney. But if
40:13
Speaker 4: there's If there's a time to lose in the World Cup,
40:15
Speaker 4: it's in the opening round when you can still see
40:17
Speaker 4: a way through to the semifinals. But you're really looking
40:20
Speaker 4: forward to this. Some of the talent on show in
40:23
Speaker 4: that Kiwis team, young superstars in the making like Casey
40:28
Speaker 4: McLean in the centres. Unfortunately, we don't get to see
40:31
Speaker 4: Caelan Ponga with that broken arm, but Keanu Keane is
40:35
Speaker 4: an incredible talent at the full-back position as well. And
40:38
Speaker 4: then the strength and depth they have. through the middle
40:41
Speaker 4: of the field. We're given the Sydney Roosters, our premiership winner,
40:45
Speaker 4: Nafahu White, a bit of a breather. And same with
40:48
Speaker 4: Penrith Panthers, Proc Moses Leota, but still running James Fisher-Harris,
40:53
Speaker 4: Aaron Clark, and Joseph Tarpany through the middle. That's top-tier talent.
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Speaker 4: And we like our rugby league in Canterbury. We saw
41:02
Speaker 4: when the Warriors came to town, the game was sold out.
41:04
Speaker 4: There's obviously a fair clamouring to eventually get a second
41:08
Speaker 4: NRL team in New Zealand and for them to be
41:10
Speaker 4: based here in Christchurch. So once again, the fans have
41:14
Speaker 4: voted with their feet and it's going to be a
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Speaker 4: sellout on Sunday. So I can't wait for that. Look
41:20
Speaker 4: at the Cook Islands. Hard to know what to expect,
41:22
Speaker 4: but a couple of familiar names here for those who
41:24
Speaker 4: follow the NRL, the likes of Valentine Holmes, who's going
41:27
Speaker 4: to play at fullback. K.L. Irrow, who plays his NRL
41:31
Speaker 4: for the Cronulla Sharks. He's the captain in the centres.
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Speaker 4: So hopefully, Should be entertaining and, yeah, as I say,
41:36
Speaker 4: just adds to this sporting smorgasbord, really. Really looking forward
41:41
Speaker 4: to Sunday. The Kiwi Ferns as well, I should mention,
41:43
Speaker 4: kicking things off from 4pm and then into the Kiwis
41:47
Speaker 4: game just after 6pm.
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Speaker 1: You talk about voting with feet. Well, the Blackcaps is
41:52
Speaker 1: a real concern that the game at the Capeton on
41:54
Speaker 1: Tuesday evening is going to have limited numbers.
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Speaker 4: Is that right? You see, it's been really well supported
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Speaker 4: here in Christchurch. And, of course, we're not necessarily talking
42:04
Speaker 4: apples with apples, are we? Because you can only get
42:06
Speaker 4: about 8,000 or 9,000 at Hagley Oval and the beautiful
42:10
Speaker 4: embankment there versus, what is it, about 30,000 to 35,000
42:13
Speaker 4: at Henry Stadium. I had heard there was some good
42:16
Speaker 4: numbers for the Eden Park game next week, but I
42:20
Speaker 4: don't know what it is. I don't want to bag
42:22
Speaker 4: the capital, but it feels like it's really hard for
42:25
Speaker 4: them to get out and support top tier sport and
42:29
Speaker 4: that wouldn't be a great look given the amount of
42:31
Speaker 4: eyeballs by Indian broadcasters and the like if there are
42:36
Speaker 4: empty seats and look you've just got to look at
42:38
Speaker 4: yesterday and if you like seeing a ball going a
42:41
Speaker 4: long way you know the bat is certainly overpowering the
42:45
Speaker 4: ball at the minute but there's a you know blink
42:47
Speaker 4: and you'll miss a couple of boundaries there's plenty going
42:50
Speaker 4: between these two top tier sides so yeah hopefully the
42:54
Speaker 4: good people in Wellington can perhaps make some change their
42:58
Speaker 4: plans after the long weekend and get out and support
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Speaker 4: because I thoroughly enjoyed yesterday's game and I'll be in
43:05
Speaker 4: front of the TV come tomorrow night as well.
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Speaker 1: Mac, we'll let you carry on. You've got a busy
43:08
Speaker 1: day ahead of you. Always good to catch up.
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Speaker 4: Likewise, Andy. Enjoy your long weekend and we'll see if
43:14
Speaker 4: it's back-to-back for Canterbury or everyone else gets their way.
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