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The Muster Full Show: 28/10/26 · The Muster on Hokonui

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Speaker 1: It was the same she had on the scheme he had,
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Speaker 1: told in a foreign land, to take life on her own.
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Speaker 2: Good afternoon and welcome to The Muster on Hokanui. Andy
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Speaker 2: Muir here until two o'clock. The show is brought to
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Speaker 2: you by Peter Genetics. Thanks to your company, it's overcast,
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Speaker 2: it's 15 degrees and there's a bit of a breeze
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Speaker 2: and the weather is getting cooler over the next couple
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Speaker 2: of days. We'll look at the weather pretty shortly, but nonetheless,
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Speaker 2: the music today, it's all about China for our first
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Speaker 2: guest this afternoon. So this is the theme, this song
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Speaker 2: here by T'Pel. T'Pel.
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Speaker 3: Hōkanui' s five-day forecast with Twin Farm, Tehrom and Softex.
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Speaker 2: The proof is in the progeny. This afternoon, partly cloudy
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Speaker 2: with brisk northwesterlies and a higher 15. Thursday, showers of
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Speaker 2: breezy westerlies, 4 and 10. Friday, getting cool. Rain with
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Speaker 2: brisk southwesterlies, 4 and 7. Saturday, on the rebound, sunshine
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Speaker 2: with breezy westerlies, 6 and 16. Sunday, cloudy with breezy northwesterlies,
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Speaker 2: 11 and 19. Soil temperatures to hand. Clinton, 12.2. Heriot, 10.3.
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Speaker 2: Northern Southland, 11.1. Riverton, 12.7. Te Anau, 12.1. Titiroa, 11.7. Winton, 11.1.
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Speaker 2: And Woodlands, 11. Eric Roy, he's over in China, so
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Speaker 2: we catch up. He's doing his bit for New Zealand
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Speaker 2: trade over there. He's in southern China at the moment,
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Speaker 2: so he gives us a bit more details about why
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Speaker 2: he's over there. Kylie Fiskin of Mount McLean Plus More
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Speaker 2: joins us. Graham Butcher, farm consultant. He talks body score
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Speaker 2: condition and use after lambing. Gina Close, a Dairy NZ,
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Speaker 2: has a yarn. And then Elliot Warrender, PGG rights and
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Speaker 2: lifestyle agent. Next week, he's going to the Young Auctioneer
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Speaker 2: of the Year competition up in Christchurch. He tells us
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Speaker 2: about his journey to being involved in such a competition.
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Speaker 2: Speaking of PGG rights, Mark Calder gives a rundown on
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Speaker 2: the Barclutha sale that was held this morning, and then
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Speaker 2: it's over to China to catch up with Eric Roy.
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Speaker 2: Eric Roy joins us once again this afternoon, although in
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Speaker 2: a bit more of an exotic location than down here
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Speaker 2: in the Deep South. He's over in China. Eric, good afternoon,
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Speaker 2: or in your case, good morning.
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Speaker 4: Hello.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we're in southern China at a place called Ji Yang.
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Speaker 5: And the big day today is opening a pavilion for
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Speaker 5: New Zealand associated with the Chaoshan Group. which is developing
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Speaker 5: business links between, well, Chinese and New Zealand.
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Speaker 4: And it's not only.
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Speaker 5: Just the Chaoshan Group is established in a number of countries,
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Speaker 5: but its centre is here in Zhejiang in China.
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Speaker 2: Describe the Chinese economy for us in a nutshell, knowing
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Speaker 2: that it's an absolute behemoth.
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Speaker 5: Well, it's simply huge, and it would be wrong to
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Speaker 5: say it doesn't have issues. For example, one of the
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Speaker 5: things that I've been alerted to is that they've created
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Speaker 5: quite a business building dormitory cities, and they've got whole
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Speaker 5: rafts of people, millions of people and companies involved in construction,
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Speaker 5: and they're now, I'm told, building more of these high-rise
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Speaker 5: dormitory buildings rental properties, then they've got people to fill
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Speaker 5: them and they can't sort of stop doing it because
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Speaker 5: it's going to create an opportunity.
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Speaker 4: Oh, well, what are these people going to do?
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Speaker 5: So they've sort of got the tiger by the tail.
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Speaker 5: But look, here's my kind of take on what's actually happening.
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Speaker 5: If you look at New Zealand, trading internationally is only
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Speaker 5: a bit over 200 years old. And for the first
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Speaker 5: hundred years, we did exceptionally well being linked to Britain
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Speaker 5: and Europe. After the First and Second World Wars, we
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Speaker 5: benefited from associations with the USA. If you look now
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Speaker 5: and say, where's the compass pointing? It's going to Asia
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Speaker 5: and growing middle classes in China and India and millions
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Speaker 5: and millions of people wanting the products that New Zealand produces.
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Speaker 5: And that's why I'm kind of involved. And there's no
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Speaker 5: doubt that This is a bit personal. People look at
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Speaker 5: me and say, how are you so big? What have
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Speaker 5: you been eating? Can we get some of this stuff?
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Speaker 5: You know, there's just a desire to have good quality food.
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Speaker 5: And so I'm the perfect example to be wandering around saying,
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Speaker 5: eat New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: As far as the prosperity of the state of where
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Speaker 2: you're based, what would you say?
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Speaker 5: Oh, look, it goes from really quite poor people to
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Speaker 5: people that.
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Speaker 4: Are exceptionally wealthy.
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Speaker 5: Like getting out of the car park, I was jammed
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Speaker 5: between a Maserati and a Ferrari in the hotel car
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Speaker 5: park yesterday. So let's just see the sort of money
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Speaker 5: that is about. You've just got to say that Tommy
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Speaker 5: and here are exceptionally wealthy. And there's millions and millions
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Speaker 5: of them. And as I said, they want to deal
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Speaker 5: with New Zealand. So the other interesting thing, though, when
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Speaker 5: I just talk about the Chao Shan group. So in
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Speaker 5: the diaspora of people that left China in the 1800s,
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Speaker 5: and some came to New Zealand as gold miners, and
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Speaker 5: some went to Singapore and America and the Caribbean and Australia,
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Speaker 5: some of them did quite well. And then they formed
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Speaker 5: this association when.
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Speaker 5: China opened up in the mid-70s and said, hang on,
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Speaker 5: China's now lost a lot of momentum. We've got the ability,
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Speaker 5: we've got the money, we've got the know-how, we can
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Speaker 5: go back in there. So that's where the Chaoshan Group
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Speaker 5: came from. And there's probably 20,000 people with connections into
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Speaker 5: Canton and Auckland alone. This is New Zealand's opportunity as
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Speaker 5: part of a big international group.
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Speaker 4: So there's a pavilion being opened.
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Speaker 5: And New Zealand has the second away from that pavilion
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Speaker 5: where we'll have a presence of Chinese New Zealand people saying,
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Speaker 5: this is what we offer. So there's quite a formidable
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Speaker 5: range of people. Canada's there, America's there, Australia's there, Germany's there.
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Speaker 5: And we're all part of it, but we're right in
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Speaker 5: the inner sanctum of that. So it's about China looking
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Speaker 5: and saying, internationally, we need to do better. And if
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Speaker 5: we're not there, then we're missing out. Simple as that.
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Speaker 2: So the likes of Australia, for example, they'll be there
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Speaker 2: as well, I suppose, given the economic benefits?
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Speaker 5: They are, but they're not as close to the main
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Speaker 5: pavilion as we are.
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Speaker 2: Why are you so close to the main pavilion then?
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Speaker 2: Is that just luck of the draw?
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Speaker 5: No, we've got some very impressive New Zealand Cantonese people
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Speaker 5: in the Chaoshan movement. One of them has been the
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Speaker 5: president of the organization internationally, and he looks after our interests,
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Speaker 5: and he's the guy that I support. It's all about
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Speaker 5: connectivity and knowing the right people. That's how international detente
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Speaker 5: and just... development all works. You've just got to work
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Speaker 5: away at this stuff. It's a bit like aerial top dressing.
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Speaker 5: You fly around putting on the super and you kind
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Speaker 5: of hope it works. Spring comes and away it goes.
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Speaker 5: That's how it works.
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Speaker 2: That's one of the great comparisons of China I've had
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Speaker 2: with top dressing, Eric. But as far as selling our
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Speaker 2: story with China, what do we need to do better
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Speaker 2: or differently?
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Speaker 5: Well, it's about forming those associations and just saying to people,
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Speaker 5: This is where we're at now. One of the big
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Speaker 5: growth things that's really helping New Zealand is tourism from
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Speaker 5: China into New Zealand. I think they're about third or
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Speaker 5: fourth now as a visiting nation. And when they're here,
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Speaker 5: we need to give them the very best experiences they
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Speaker 5: can get.
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Speaker 4: And that all helps as well.
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Speaker 5: And the work that's been done with free trade agreements
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Speaker 5: and things things like I'm doing today, having a presence
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Speaker 5: where trade is being talked and business is going on,
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Speaker 5: all of that just forms, there's no one sectional thing,
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Speaker 5: we just have to be aware of all opportunities and
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Speaker 5: have people standing there doing their promotion or answering the
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Speaker 5: questions or just being available, that's how it works.
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Speaker 2: What about New Zealand wool, what opportunities do you see?
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Speaker 5: Well It hasn't come up on this occasion, and I'm
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Speaker 5: just sort of answering questions, so I haven't run into
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Speaker 5: anybody that's had that question. But interestingly, you say that
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Speaker 5: the last time I was in India, a man said,
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Speaker 5: what have I got to do to buy the whole
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Speaker 5: New Zealand wool clip? So there is an interest in
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Speaker 5: doing wool stuff, and that's starting to come again, which
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Speaker 5: we've seen in the resultant auction price and that we're
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Speaker 5: getting paid for raw wool in New Zealand. So I
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Speaker 5: think that will develop again, but it's not an area
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Speaker 5: I've been embraced into.
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Speaker 2: Is it fair to say that we're underselling ourselves, Ian,
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Speaker 2: based on what you're seeing as a trading nation, Eric?
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Speaker 4: Oh, no, I think we're doing well, and I think....
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Speaker 5: The fact that we were off the blocks early with
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Speaker 5: a free trade agreement into China and again into India,
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Speaker 5: I think we're doing our bit, but I think.
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Speaker 4: we are now, but there are times when.
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Speaker 5: We have not performed as well or as enthusiastically as
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Speaker 5: we should have done. But I think the message is
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Speaker 5: pretty clear right now. This is where we need to be.
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Speaker 5: The other thing I'd say about developing markets into Asia is,
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Speaker 5: If we become dependent on one particular country and then
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Speaker 5: they start doing some things that are a bit against
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Speaker 5: our trade or they don't like us or whatever, our
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Speaker 5: strength is not in being able to knock them around
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Speaker 5: verbally because we're small and we're little, but we're saying, OK,
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Speaker 5: we've got other places we can send this product. We've
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Speaker 5: got other people that want this. So that's where we're
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Speaker 5: going to trade. And that's really our only option. When
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Speaker 5: the chips are down and we get loaded up with
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Speaker 5: tariffs or something that we find unacceptable, it's to say, well,
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Speaker 5: we do have other markets.
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Speaker 2: When do you think we can start seeing the benefits
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Speaker 2: from likes of what you're at at the moment, Eric?
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Speaker 2: What's the timeframe?
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Speaker 5: Oh, well, we're seeing them now and we're seeing them
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Speaker 5: in prices for protein all around the world right now. So,
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Speaker 5: you know, as I say, it's a bit like erosion
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Speaker 5: or aerial top dressing. You stop doing it, you stop
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Speaker 5: your aerial top dressing, in the first year you don't
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Speaker 5: really notice too much happening. But after five years, you've
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Speaker 5: got a disaster. So it's something we just need to
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Speaker 5: keep plugging away at.
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Speaker 2: Just finally, Eric, all the other countries are there trying
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Speaker 2: to put their name in the pot as well. Without
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Speaker 2: sounding patronising, does New Zealand have a good name amongst
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Speaker 2: these other countries too? Do they realise New Zealand's serious competition?
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Speaker 5: Well, I have not come across any negative impressions about
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Speaker 5: New Zealand and people even acknowledging the turnaround in the
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Speaker 5: All Blacks and a few other things that are happening.
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Speaker 5: So we do have an international profile that is above
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Speaker 5: our stations. I think we're about something like 115th population-wise
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Speaker 5: in the world. That's our size. But we're 53rd in
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Speaker 5: international trade. So we do punch above our weight, and
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Speaker 5: that is acknowledged. We're not a superpower, but we're a
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Speaker 5: super product place, and that's the way in which I
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Speaker 5: think we need to look at ourselves.
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Speaker 2: Eric, thanks for your time and getting up early, considering
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Speaker 2: what it is, bricky time over there as such. All
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Speaker 2: the best over there too. Sounds interesting. We'll catch up
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Speaker 2: again to get a bit of a follow-up.
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Speaker 4: That'll be good. We'll look forward to that. Thanks a lot, Andy.
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Speaker 2: Eric Roy, getting up early to join us all the
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Speaker 2: way from China this morning. Positive things happening for New
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Speaker 2: Zealand trade. So, yeah, that's the kind of stuff we'd
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Speaker 2: like to hear. You're listening to The Muster up next.
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Speaker 2: Kylie Fisken of Mallet McLean plus more. Welcome back to
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Speaker 2: The Muster. Kylie Fisken and Mel McLean bless more. Base
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Speaker 2: Terran Gord joins us once again. G'day. Seems like forever
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Speaker 2: since I've seen you in here.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, a lot's happened since though.
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Speaker 2: Quite a bit. How's things been anyway?
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Speaker 4: So yeah, spring.
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Speaker 6: It's the time of the year when farmers open their
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Speaker 6: wallets and driving around the countryside it's great to see
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Speaker 6: freshly turned over ground. Well done to those who burnt
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Speaker 6: the midnight oil to get that job done. Of course,
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Speaker 6: third wet spring in a row. My so-called side hustle
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Speaker 6: is obviously the family dairy farm. And I like to
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Speaker 6: say that I manage the money. But when it rains
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Speaker 6: like that, there isn't much management involved. It becomes a
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Speaker 6: case of buy the feed, juggle the cash flow and
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Speaker 6: just get through.
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Speaker 2: Just do what you got to do and things will
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Speaker 2: sort themselves out later on.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: I'd like to forget that the rain happened. But I
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Speaker 6: can't and we shouldn't. So like I say, third tough spring.
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Speaker 6: The funny thing about farmers, we're pretty good at moving on.
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Speaker 6: The sun comes out, the grass starts growing, we get
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Speaker 6: on with it. Sometimes we even convince ourselves that last
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Speaker 6: year wasn't that bad until someone reminds us that it
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Speaker 6: was pretty rubbish too. So all the talk we're having
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Speaker 6: around the table now is about infrastructure issues.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's an important one, considering we've just gone past
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Speaker 2: the 12-month anniversary of the winds too.
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Speaker 7: Indeed.
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Speaker 6: You remind me of that day.
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Speaker 2: Well, you can't forget it, though.
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Speaker 4: No, you can't.
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Speaker 6: So around infrastructure, like 20 years ago, the number of
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Speaker 6: calves that we used to have born across that eight-week
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Speaker 6: period are now arriving in three. So we're asking a
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Speaker 6: lot of our farms, and more than ever before, In
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Speaker 6: some places, we're already close to capacity before the rain arrived.
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Speaker 6: And I guess with money, or at least equity, floating
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Speaker 6: around in our balance sheets, we have opportunities to examine
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Speaker 6: our farm weaknesses and the impact across our animal, our human,
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Speaker 6: and our financial health. So whether it's lanes, drainage, storage, housing,
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Speaker 6: or some other bottleneck, we need to make a plan
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Speaker 6: We need to prioritise it, we need to budget for
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Speaker 6: it and if you do that all before Christmas you'll
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Speaker 6: have a much better chance of getting tradies when you
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Speaker 6: actually need them because we all know if you ring
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Speaker 6: a contractor in the middle of a weather event you're
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Speaker 6: probably about number 247 on the list maybe.
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Speaker 2: But that's the nature of the game unfortunately as well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah it is.
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Speaker 6: There's a lot of innovation going on out there in
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Speaker 6: our farming communities. Farmers are really good at sharing knowledge
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Speaker 6: so Once you've prioritised, found what it is that you
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Speaker 6: need to do, talk. Talk to everyone. Talk to people
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Speaker 6: that are doing different things because, yeah, that's how we
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Speaker 6: learn from each other.
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Speaker 2: A lot of people considering composting barns and the likes
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Speaker 2: based on the season as well. I mean, you're nodding
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Speaker 2: your head there, so you agree. Get the conversation going.
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Speaker 6: All I'm seeing is innovation. Get the conversations going. Lots
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Speaker 6: of people are doing lots of different things, feed pads, barns,
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Speaker 6: the whole lot. So it's a matter of finding your
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Speaker 6: pain points on the farm and then working out a
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Speaker 6: cost benefit strategy of what you could do and whether
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Speaker 6: it's financially viable. And like I say, putting first animals
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Speaker 6: and people.
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Speaker 2: What about sheep farmers? Spring's got to be spring, I suppose,
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Speaker 2: is where you just got to do what you can to.
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Speaker 6: To get through.
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Speaker 2: To get through.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, on that note, we've had a couple of alliance
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Speaker 6: contracts come across our desk lately in terms of the
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Speaker 6: terms and conditions to the alliance advance payment. Now, the
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Speaker 6: money is good. The advances are certainly attractive, but encourage
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Speaker 6: farmers to read the fine print carefully. Last season, I'm
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Speaker 6: going to remind you about last spring when the sun
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Speaker 6: didn't shine and there was no grass and our lambs
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Speaker 6: didn't get fat and we really struggled to meet our
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Speaker 6: commitments at the end of April to get our lambs
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Speaker 6: into Alliance. So, yeah, Mother Nature doesn't always respect their
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Speaker 6: plans and it can be a significant cost if supply
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Speaker 6: commitments aren't met. So there's a 12% interest charge plus
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Speaker 6: a penalty on top of that that they're saying if
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Speaker 6: you don't get your lambs in, that would be implemented.
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Speaker 2: Are you seeing anything but a seller's market at the
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Speaker 2: moment regarding red meat?
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 4: No, not at all.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, long may it continue.
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Speaker 2: And the fact we got $ 525 at Charlton there about
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Speaker 2: a month ago for a pen of lambs, and yes,
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Speaker 2: it was a one-off, but lawn villas cracked 500 upcountry.
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Speaker 2: It seems to be pretty positive, and you're hearing a
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Speaker 2: new season of lambs, depending on where you're based, going
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Speaker 2: for over 300 at the moment.
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Speaker 6: Is it making us nervous? Because reality is we do
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Speaker 6: have inflation on the other side of that. Remember, everything
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Speaker 6: we do uses fuel or some commodity. that is also
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Speaker 6: costing us extra. So we don't know where inflation is
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Speaker 6: going to land and what our margins are going to be.
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Speaker 2: No, but it's the fact that you're actually getting a
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Speaker 2: reward for your product, I think.
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Speaker 6: You're getting rewarded, but it is costing you money to
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Speaker 6: do it and costing you more money to do it
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Speaker 6: than it did before. I guess we've got an OCR
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Speaker 6: announcement today. I don't expect that to be a huge,
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Speaker 6: huge movement.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: But yeah, in terms of that, definitely profitability pressure, but
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Speaker 6: I think the profitability is still there.
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Speaker 2: Well, you pretty much summed it up, though, just regarding
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Speaker 2: the Southland economy, Kylie. The fact that we are holding
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Speaker 2: our own and everything that's happening in this election cycle,
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Speaker 2: love it or hate it, I mean, Southland just keeps cranking.
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Speaker 2: That's the reality of the situation, right?
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Speaker 6: They can't really do much to hurt us because we
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Speaker 6: work really hard and we deserve to get paid for it.
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Speaker 6: We can't control, at the end of the day, inflation.
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Speaker 6: We can't control the wars overseas. We can't control the weather.
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Speaker 6: But we can control how we respond. And farming... more
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Speaker 6: than ever has been about adapting, learning, and keeping an
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Speaker 6: eye on the next 10 years, just not the next
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Speaker 6: 10 weeks.
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Speaker 2: It's a very good way to look at things, a
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Speaker 2: very positive outlook.
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Speaker 7: Always.
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Speaker 2: Pragmatic. Pragmatic. That's a great word, eh?
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Speaker 6: Isn't it indeed? You've had a thesaurus out.
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Speaker 2: Thesaurus? Dinosaur? Maybe it's Google now. Is it Google now? No,
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Speaker 2: it's all the top three inches. Don't worry about that.
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Speaker 2: Mail up a claim plus more. What's your deets?
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Speaker 6: You can flick us an email on hello at mmca.co.nz.
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Speaker 6: Give us a call here in the Gore office at
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Speaker 6: 03 208 5077 or in our Invercargill office, 03 214 4166.
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Speaker 1: Good on you, Kylie.
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Speaker 6: Always good to catch up.
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Speaker 2: Thanks, Andy. Kylie Fisken of Mallet McLean Plus More. You're
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Speaker 2: listening to The Muster. Grant Butch is in studio next.
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Speaker 2: Farm consultant. This is the muster on Hokanui, Graham Butcher,
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Speaker 2: farm consultant, joins us in studio once again. How are you?
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Speaker 7: I'm very well indeed, Andy.
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Speaker 2: It's been a little bit of a correction in the weather.
20:13
Speaker 2: Next couple of days looks a bit meh, but then
20:15
Speaker 2: over the weekend, slowly starting to warm up again.
20:17
Speaker 7: Well, we've had some heavy rainfalls, we've had wind, we've
20:20
Speaker 7: had sunshine. All in all, damn sight better than September.
20:24
Speaker 2: Anything's better than September, same old story, right?
20:26
Speaker 7: Better than September, too right it is.
20:28
Speaker 2: Paul Kenyon was on the show last week talking about
20:31
Speaker 2: you management looking ahead to next season. You went along
20:34
Speaker 2: to that workshop and you said it was really, really interesting.
20:39
Speaker 7: It was. It was a three-hour presentation and it seemed
20:42
Speaker 7: like 20 minutes. It's one of those ones, you know.
20:44
Speaker 7: Good turnout. There were probably 40 or 50 people there and,
20:48
Speaker 7: you know, everyone was busy tailing and getting their tractors
20:50
Speaker 7: out and what have you. So it was a really
20:52
Speaker 7: good turnout and a damn good show. I didn't realise
20:55
Speaker 7: Paul was on so he's probably stolen some of my thunder.
20:59
Speaker 7: It's worthy of repeating.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, there you go.
21:01
Speaker 6: If I am repeating.
21:03
Speaker 7: One of the themes he had was looking at lambing
21:06
Speaker 7: percentages and is it better to look at increasing your
21:09
Speaker 7: lambing percentage or increasing your lamb weights, particularly your lamb
21:13
Speaker 7: weaning weights. And we had some quite interesting figures up there.
21:16
Speaker 7: And he put a series of graphs up on looking
21:21
Speaker 7: at the impact on cash operating surplus, which is your
21:25
Speaker 7: cash income less working costs, on a per hectare basis,
21:31
Speaker 7: on increasing lambing percentage. And what he showed, going from
21:36
Speaker 7: 133 and 0.5%, if we go up to 140%, a 6% increase,
21:37
Speaker 7: the impact on cash surplus was about 7%. If we
21:40
Speaker 7: go up another 10% to 150% lambing, the impact is 18% overall.
21:44
Speaker 7: And going up another 10%, to 160%, the overall impact
22:01
Speaker 7: is 26%.
22:02
Speaker 2: Sorry, is this based on what average weight lamb then,
22:05
Speaker 2: when you're talking about?
22:07
Speaker 7: This is on average weight lamb. On the graph, it
22:10
Speaker 7: doesn't have what the average weight is.
22:12
Speaker 2: You can presume 18, 18 and a half K.
22:15
Speaker 7: I think it was a survey of a number of
22:17
Speaker 7: farms looking at the whole thing.
22:19
Speaker 4: Right.
22:19
Speaker 7: So anyway, as lambing percentage increases, the impact on cash
22:25
Speaker 7: operating surplus is positive. It goes up. But as the
22:28
Speaker 7: lambing percentage climbs, the rate of increase actually declines because
22:34
Speaker 7: you get more triplets and all that sort of thing.
22:38
Speaker 7: Compared to that, starting at 130%, but maintaining your lambing
22:45
Speaker 7: percentage at around the 133%, which is the base starting
22:49
Speaker 7: of the one I've just talked about, but just concentrating
22:53
Speaker 7: on your lamb weaning weights. Right, if we go up from...
22:57
Speaker 7: 30 kgs to 33 kgs maintaining your lambing percentage. The
23:03
Speaker 7: impact is 17%, nearly 18%, just that one step. If
23:08
Speaker 7: we go up another three kilos, it's 35%. Another three
23:12
Speaker 7: kilos on that, it's 52%. Cash operating surplus, which far
23:17
Speaker 7: outweighs the gains we can make on increasing our lambing percentage,
23:22
Speaker 7: even though there is gains there to do it. So
23:24
Speaker 7: I suppose what I took out of that is as
23:27
Speaker 7: your lambing percentage rises, the focus has got to shift
23:30
Speaker 7: onto weaning weights and finishing weights as well, though he
23:34
Speaker 7: didn't talk about finishing weights. So just a change in focus.
23:41
Speaker 7: As you're increasing your lambing percentage above 140%, the marginal
23:45
Speaker 7: gains get less and less and less. That's the point
23:49
Speaker 7: where you've got to start thinking about weaning weights and
23:52
Speaker 7: lamb finishing weights because the impact on the growth on
23:55
Speaker 7: your cash farm surplus is actually a lot higher So
23:58
Speaker 7: that was quite an interesting theme that came through. And
24:01
Speaker 7: that sort of line ties up with some work I did.
24:04
Speaker 7: I've been doing it for a couple of years now,
24:06
Speaker 7: or quite a few years, on what's the sweet spot
24:09
Speaker 7: for scanning percentage. And funnily enough, it comes out at
24:13
Speaker 7: about 140%. After that, it declines. At 140%, if you
24:19
Speaker 7: take all your U deaths, triplet deaths, all those sorts
24:23
Speaker 7: of losses into account, The sweet spot seems to be
24:27
Speaker 7: about 185% scanning and 140% tailing because that's the point
24:32
Speaker 7: where the kilograms lamb wean actually peaks and then it
24:37
Speaker 7: starts to decline a wee bit because of the impact
24:40
Speaker 7: of triplets and all that sort of thing. So that
24:42
Speaker 7: was quite an interesting sort of corroboration of what Paul
24:46
Speaker 7: was saying. The other main theme of the ewe management
24:51
Speaker 7: one was body condition score. and he was very positive
24:58
Speaker 7: about how important the body condition score is because it
25:01
Speaker 7: affects all sorts of things on productivity on sheep farms.
25:04
Speaker 7: It affects fertility, that's the getting in lamb, scanning percentage, prolificacy,
25:09
Speaker 7: that's the lambs at tailing. It affects lactation, affects a
25:12
Speaker 7: whole lot of things, and it's a really important thing
25:14
Speaker 7: to do. But one of the things he did say,
25:16
Speaker 7: there's no point in having, or very little point, in
25:20
Speaker 7: having ewes above about 3.5% body condition score The key
25:25
Speaker 7: is bringing up that bottom end. That's where the big
25:27
Speaker 7: impact is made.
25:28
Speaker 2: Consistency through the line. That's what you're aiming for.
25:30
Speaker 7: Forget about the average. I've been saying that for donkey's years.
25:34
Speaker 7: An average of 3.5 means half of them are not
25:36
Speaker 7: up to speed. So 3.5, maybe you have a few
25:40
Speaker 7: at four at that. Probably that's okay. But bring that
25:43
Speaker 7: bottom end up because that impacts on a huge number
25:46
Speaker 7: of profitability trays on the farm. And if you're going
25:50
Speaker 7: to do good feed management, You've got to actually start
25:53
Speaker 7: measuring something. What's McGrath doing? What's our cover? Where's it
25:56
Speaker 7: going to? It's the philosophy that dairy farmers have become
26:00
Speaker 7: very successful following. So sheep farmers have got to pick
26:04
Speaker 7: up that and run with it if we're going to
26:06
Speaker 7: push things ahead. So anyway, it was a really interesting one.
26:10
Speaker 7: The other... Really interesting one about body condition score too.
26:14
Speaker 7: He had a couple of figures on the rates of
26:16
Speaker 7: attrition on ewes for low body condition scoring. And one
26:20
Speaker 7: of the things he said was that for a five-year-old ewe,
26:23
Speaker 7: the chance of being culled decreased 37% for every body
26:28
Speaker 7: condition score increase. That's huge. And he said that sort
26:32
Speaker 7: of figure applied to other age groups as well. 37%
26:35
Speaker 7: decrease chance of being culled if your body condition score
26:40
Speaker 7: is pretty good. And the attrition rate in New Zealand
26:43
Speaker 7: flocks is probably about 30%. By the time your two-doos
26:46
Speaker 7: go in, by the time they hit after five lambings,
26:49
Speaker 7: there's very few of them left. They just trickle out
26:52
Speaker 7: through the whole system. And that's actually a huge cost
26:56
Speaker 7: for New Zealand sheep farmers.
26:58
Speaker 2: Just to wrap up as well, South and Rural Support Trust,
27:01
Speaker 2: we're back catching up with the team and different farmers.
27:06
Speaker 2: Farm Advisor, when you look back at the last 10
27:08
Speaker 2: weeks or so, As to where we are now, what
27:10
Speaker 2: words of advice would you say?
27:13
Speaker 7: I'd say farmers have done a hell of a good
27:15
Speaker 7: job tidying up. There's still stuff to do. You see
27:18
Speaker 7: it lying around the place. Pretty horrendous time a year ago.
27:22
Speaker 7: But farmers, I think they did a stupendous job cleaning
27:27
Speaker 7: up and I think the impact has been pretty stressful
27:34
Speaker 7: on farmers, physical, mental, the whole show. because that's one
27:39
Speaker 7: thing we didn't need this time of the year is
27:40
Speaker 7: that wind that came through.
27:42
Speaker 2: Nonetheless, the lambs are on the ground now, the ones
27:44
Speaker 2: that are there, and here's hoping to wear something for
27:46
Speaker 2: this season. Hey, Graeme, good on you.
27:48
Speaker 4: Yep, thank you.
27:51
Speaker 2: Graham Butcher, Farm Consultant. Once again, Southland Rural Support Trust.
27:55
Speaker 2: 0800 787 254. Somebody at the end of the line
27:59
Speaker 2: if you need to have a chat as well. So
28:01
Speaker 2: we're talking about to different farmers and different avenues. And
28:04
Speaker 2: next week we're going to talk about a few events
28:06
Speaker 2: that are coming up like Surfing for Farmers, Not Too
28:08
Speaker 2: Far Away, Riding for Farmers as well, starting tonight. So
28:12
Speaker 2: get on board with that. Gina Close is up next
28:15
Speaker 2: from Dairy NZ. welcome back to the muster it is
28:31
Speaker 2: time to catch up with gina close out of dairy
28:34
Speaker 2: nz gina welcome to the muster good to.
28:37
Speaker 8: Chat yay how are you andy okay.
28:40
Speaker 2: Gina tell us tell us about yourself your involvement with
28:43
Speaker 2: dairy nz your background Yeah, right.
28:45
Speaker 8: So, yeah, Gina Close. I am covering the area manager
28:51
Speaker 8: spot for Northern Southland. So I've worked on dairy farms
28:56
Speaker 8: in the past with my husband, which has given me
28:59
Speaker 8: a real appreciation for the realities and the challenges of farming.
29:05
Speaker 8: So I started working for Dairy NZ in about 2020
29:09
Speaker 8: as a contractor before moving into the event space and, yeah,
29:14
Speaker 8: now as an area manager.
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Speaker 2: A lot of positivity for the sector at the moment,
29:19
Speaker 2: would you say? I think you'd have to agree there
29:20
Speaker 2: would be.
29:21
Speaker 8: Yeah, yep, definitely. And one of the key things that
29:25
Speaker 8: I'd like to talk to you about today is the
29:28
Speaker 8: opportunity that we have for farmers right now to help
29:33
Speaker 8: shape Dairy NZ's future direction. So, yeah, over recent years,
29:38
Speaker 8: farmers have always told us that they want a stronger
29:41
Speaker 8: voice and where Dairy NZ sort of focuses its efforts
29:45
Speaker 8: and its levy investment. So, yeah, as we go forward
29:50
Speaker 8: and plan out the next five years, we're asking farmers
29:53
Speaker 8: to tell us where they think their levy can make
29:57
Speaker 8: the biggest difference.
29:58
Speaker 2: As far as the sector itself, what are you really
30:00
Speaker 2: enjoying about it at the moment, Gina?
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Speaker 8: For myself, yeah, obviously I've worked with the event space
30:08
Speaker 8: and sort of behind the scenes of the events, but, yeah,
30:12
Speaker 8: getting out and seeing what great things farmers are doing.
30:15
Speaker 8: At the moment, we've just finished up a series of events,
30:20
Speaker 8: our pastor to profit, and, yeah, highly attended events, and
30:24
Speaker 8: it was really good just to get out and see
30:27
Speaker 8: farmers what good farmers are doing.
30:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard about that event last week. We were
30:31
Speaker 2: catching up with Gerard while he was there, and it
30:34
Speaker 2: sounded like a massive turnout too on a farm that's
30:36
Speaker 2: doing good things.
30:38
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, no, definitely. It was fantastic. It was great
30:43
Speaker 8: to see everyone come out and, yeah, just sort of
30:48
Speaker 8: celebrating what great farmers we have in Southland.
30:52
Speaker 2: Now, you're going to be based as the area rep
30:55
Speaker 2: for Northern Southland, is that correct?
30:57
Speaker 8: Yes, yep, looking after northern Southland. So I am based
31:02
Speaker 8: down in Makarua, but yeah, always enjoy a nice drive
31:05
Speaker 8: up northern Southland.
31:07
Speaker 2: So you've been with Dairy NZ for, what did you say,
31:09
Speaker 2: about five or six years now. What did you do
31:10
Speaker 2: prior to that? Just working on farms in the likes
31:12
Speaker 2: of your hubby?
31:14
Speaker 8: Yep, worked on farms and we were also up in
31:19
Speaker 8: Glenorchy for some time on a sheep and beef farm
31:21
Speaker 8: up there, so a bit of change of pace.
31:24
Speaker 2: Glenorchy, worst places in the world to be than up there.
31:27
Speaker 8: Definitely.
31:28
Speaker 2: That pub goes good.
31:30
Speaker 8: Yeah, it does, it does. It always goes off.
31:33
Speaker 2: So was there any rationale or change from going to
31:37
Speaker 2: dairy from sheep and beef, Gina? Just a change of
31:40
Speaker 2: scenery as such?
31:41
Speaker 8: Yeah, just we were always, we were from Southend, so yeah,
31:46
Speaker 8: it was just coming back to the family roots. So yeah,
31:49
Speaker 8: here we are.
31:50
Speaker 2: And how have people got through the spring from what
31:52
Speaker 2: you've seen, knowing that the situation has been what it's been?
31:57
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think people are, yeah, they're getting back. It's
32:01
Speaker 8: definitely very sort of pocketed to where the weather hit
32:06
Speaker 8: the worst. And so, yeah, I think people's main focus
32:09
Speaker 8: has been getting conditioned back on cows for, you know,
32:13
Speaker 8: obviously we're heading into mating now. So, yeah, making sure
32:16
Speaker 8: they're in tip-top form.
32:18
Speaker 2: So once again, regarding the strategies for the next five
32:21
Speaker 2: years for Dairy NZ, you encourage people to go online
32:23
Speaker 2: and submit?
32:25
Speaker 4: Yes.
32:25
Speaker 8: So just for everyone to keep an eye out for
32:28
Speaker 8: our newsletter, which comes out tomorrow, and that will have
32:32
Speaker 8: a link to the form, which only takes a couple
32:35
Speaker 8: of minutes to fill in. So yeah, whether you have
32:38
Speaker 8: a new idea, a challenge that you'd like Dairy NZ
32:41
Speaker 8: to focus on, or feedback on what you've seen that
32:45
Speaker 8: we've been doing well. So yeah, So, yeah, the more
32:48
Speaker 8: farmers that participate, the clearer the picture we will have
32:51
Speaker 8: for what matters most for our sector.
32:54
Speaker 2: Absolutely. So farmers can expect to see your cheery face
32:57
Speaker 2: at events popping up around the region.
32:59
Speaker 8: Yes, absolutely. I'll be out and about.
33:02
Speaker 2: Good on you, Gina. Thanks for your time this afternoon.
33:04
Speaker 2: Good to catch up.
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Speaker 8: Oh, thank you. See you.
33:10
Speaker 2: Gina Close of Dairy NZ. As we catch up with
33:13
Speaker 2: the team on a regular basis, you're listening to The Muster.
33:16
Speaker 2: A change of text next. Elliot Warrender. He's away to
33:20
Speaker 2: the Young Auctioneer of the Year competition happening in Christchurch
33:24
Speaker 2: next week. We have a catch-up. Hey, well, all right, sir.
33:34
Speaker 4: Here we go there.
33:35
Speaker 2: And what are you going to give for?
33:36
Speaker 4: I'm a 25.
33:36
Speaker 2: I'll give 30 now.
33:37
Speaker 4: Five. Another $ 40.
33:37
Speaker 2: I'm going to make it a 40 now.
33:38
Speaker 4: Five.
33:41
Speaker 2: Welcome back to The Muster. Yes, you've heard that song
33:44
Speaker 2: twice today. Now, of course, it is the intro music
33:46
Speaker 2: for our PGG Rights and Stock Sale report, but we
33:49
Speaker 2: are using it for Elliot Warrender. He is competing in
33:52
Speaker 2: the New Zealand Young Auctioneers competition next Tuesday up at Christchurch.
33:57
Speaker 2: It coincides with the Canterbury AMP show. He's a PGG
34:00
Speaker 2: Rights and Livestock agent based out of Winton. Elliot, good afternoon.
34:05
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us.
34:06
Speaker 9: How are you going, Andy?
34:07
Speaker 3: Thanks for having me on.
34:08
Speaker 2: Oh, look, I appreciate your time on what is something
34:11
Speaker 2: pretty unique. The Young Auctioneer competition happening next week, it's
34:18
Speaker 2: a bit of a random one for a lot of people,
34:20
Speaker 2: but it's certainly an art form.
34:23
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah. I don't really know a lot about it myself,
34:26
Speaker 10: but pretty much I think it's under the age of
34:29
Speaker 10: 29 or 30 and get out there and have a
34:34
Speaker 10: crack against other young auctioneers around the country.
34:37
Speaker 4: Yeah.
34:38
Speaker 2: How long is it since you had to do your
34:40
Speaker 2: first auction? What is the back story to this, Elliot?
34:44
Speaker 10: Well, I head down to the Lawnville sale yards and
34:47
Speaker 10: Charlton sale yards once every week. And I've always been
34:54
Speaker 10: intrigued about it, I guess, watching it and seeing how
34:57
Speaker 10: it works.
34:58
Speaker 3: And I pretty much.
34:59
Speaker 10: Just got chucked on the spot to sell an old
35:02
Speaker 10: ram down at Lawnville one day and the rest is history, really.
35:07
Speaker 2: It's an art form, though. It's something you just can't
35:09
Speaker 2: pick up. I've seen something online a couple of weeks
35:12
Speaker 2: ago over in the States, and it was like a
35:14
Speaker 2: school they had for auctioneers. Does that sound about right?
35:19
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think there is a lot of training camps
35:23
Speaker 10: or whatever they do for it. But, yeah, I sort
35:26
Speaker 10: of just try to pick it up as I go
35:28
Speaker 10: down to the sale yards. We've got some pretty established
35:32
Speaker 10: auctioneers down there. They always tend to... give a hand
35:35
Speaker 10: and chuck some tips out. But, yeah, they just let
35:38
Speaker 10: you do it, really, and you're always picking up stuff
35:41
Speaker 10: as you go.
35:43
Speaker 2: Now, when you're doing the auctioneering and the likes, are
35:46
Speaker 2: you just having to think on the spot as to
35:48
Speaker 2: what to do, or does it come naturally?
35:51
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm still definitely thinking about what I have to
35:54
Speaker 10: do and what I've got to say and when's a
35:57
Speaker 10: good time to close the sale and how the bids
36:01
Speaker 10: are coming in. I'm still trying to pick up that knack, definitely.
36:04
Speaker 10: But every time I do it, I feel like I'm improving.
36:10
Speaker 4: Every time.
36:11
Speaker 3: So hopefully it's enough to give me a good crack
36:15
Speaker 3: up the road.
36:17
Speaker 2: So what is it you reckon, Elliot, that makes a
36:19
Speaker 2: good auctioneer from what you're doing and what you've seen?
36:24
Speaker 10: Well, some of the advice I've been given and what
36:27
Speaker 10: I've really taken on board is just Just being clear
36:30
Speaker 10: and concise about what you're selling, the bidders understand where
36:36
Speaker 10: the bid is, what the money is, and yeah, pretty
36:40
Speaker 10: much just being really clear, really.
36:43
Speaker 2: So who encouraged you to go in for the New
36:45
Speaker 2: Zealand Young Auctioneers competition? Was there anybody as a mentor
36:48
Speaker 2: as such?
36:51
Speaker 10: No, not really. I've been doing it for not really
36:56
Speaker 10: that long, really, about four months or so, and I
37:00
Speaker 10: just got asked if I was interested in doing it
37:03
Speaker 10: and I'm always keen to give stuff a crack and
37:05
Speaker 10: yeah it's just another opportunity to have a go and
37:09
Speaker 10: get my name out there and meet some other auctioneers
37:12
Speaker 10: around the country really.
37:13
Speaker 2: You've only been doing it for four months?
37:16
Speaker 10: Nah yeah I haven't really been doing it that long
37:18
Speaker 10: really so it's a bit nerve wracking but yeah you
37:21
Speaker 10: know what I'll be keen just to get up there
37:24
Speaker 10: and give it a go, get the experience and I'll
37:26
Speaker 10: be better for it.
37:27
Speaker 2: So what were you doing before you were a livestock rep?
37:31
Speaker 10: I was sort of just floating around, to be fair.
37:34
Speaker 10: I was doing jobs here and there. I was a
37:37
Speaker 10: student for four years up in Dunedin, and now I'm here.
37:41
Speaker 3: So it's been a bit of an interesting journey, really.
37:44
Speaker 2: You're going into the unknown yourselves. I think all the
37:47
Speaker 2: other firms, though, they've got people involved as well. So
37:52
Speaker 2: it's just across the industry as such, is that right?
37:55
Speaker 3: Yes, just across the industry.
37:57
Speaker 10: I see there's about four different companies who have young
37:59
Speaker 10: auctioneers in the comp So we'll be going up against them.
38:06
Speaker 2: So it's pretty much a case of the unknown then,
38:08
Speaker 2: as you said before. It's like, what have they got
38:10
Speaker 2: to present? You've got no idea what you need to
38:12
Speaker 2: do on the day?
38:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have a rough idea.
38:16
Speaker 10: There's sort of a bit of an itinerary. So we're
38:18
Speaker 10: selling some prime lambs on the first day down at
38:23
Speaker 10: Canterbury Park there. And then on the Tuesday, we'll be
38:26
Speaker 10: selling prime cattle and So, yeah, obviously the difference between
38:30
Speaker 10: that is we'll be.
38:31
Speaker 3: Selling the prime cattle in cents per kilo, which is.
38:36
Speaker 10: All a big learning curve for me because down at
38:39
Speaker 10: Lawnville and Charlton, I primarily just sell a lot of
38:42
Speaker 10: the mutton and the prime lamb. So I've been doing
38:46
Speaker 10: a wee bit of practice in my own time, trying
38:49
Speaker 10: to get my head around that. And instead of saying $ 100,
38:51
Speaker 10: you're saying dollars, that sort of stuff. So, yeah, it's
38:55
Speaker 10: all just learning along the way, really.
38:57
Speaker 2: Well, the terminology CPK, as opposed to schedule or prime market,
39:01
Speaker 2: it's a different thing altogether.
39:03
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah.
39:05
Speaker 10: Yeah, and even just speaking in dollars compared to hundreds,
39:10
Speaker 10: I find it was a bit challenging at the start,
39:14
Speaker 10: but I'm thinking I'm starting to get my head around it.
39:16
Speaker 2: So what do you do to practice for this? Is
39:18
Speaker 2: there such a thing?
39:20
Speaker 10: Yeah, well, I think the best way to practice is
39:22
Speaker 10: just getting in there and doing it, like putting yourself
39:27
Speaker 10: out there and having a good grow and taking on feed.
39:32
Speaker 3: Obviously, you can always practice.
39:34
Speaker 10: They say practice in your car and take bids on
39:36
Speaker 10: the power poles as you.
39:37
Speaker 3: Drive along the road.
39:42
Speaker 10: That's a good way to get your head around a
39:45
Speaker 10: bit of timing and finding new filler words and stuff,
39:49
Speaker 10: but definitely the best way is just out there doing
39:51
Speaker 10: it with real bitters and real stock on the line, yeah.
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Speaker 2: So tomorrow at Charlton, you're going to kick Teagle off
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Speaker 2: the rails and give it a crack, you reckon?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Teagle's pretty stern up there, so I think I
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Speaker 3: might still have to buy my time for a few
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Speaker 3: more years for that, but he definitely gives me the nod,
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Speaker 3: I'll jump up there and give it a good go.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Teagle, he'll be where the young barks. Hey,
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Speaker 2: you don't want to give us a bit of a
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Speaker 2: demo on the spot, do.
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Speaker 4: You, mate?
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Speaker 3: Oh, no, just to save it. It'll be live on Bidart.
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Speaker 3: You'd have to come and tune in and watch it yourself.
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Speaker 2: So, OK, what are the details people need to know
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Speaker 2: if they're up at Christchurch next week? What time does
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Speaker 2: it get underway?
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Speaker 10: Well, I believe the prime stock on the Tuesday, I
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Speaker 10: think that kicks off at 1pm in Canterbury Park rink there, and...
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Speaker 10: It's live-streamed through BIDA, and, yeah, so that's pretty much
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Speaker 10: the way it's going to go.
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Speaker 4: I think.
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Speaker 2: Hey, good on you, Elliot. All the best for next week.
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Speaker 2: Certainly a different kind of competition than what is very
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Speaker 2: much quesential Kiwi. Yeah, we'll see. We'll catch up with
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Speaker 2: you next week, see how it all goes. All the
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Speaker 2: best for the unknown.
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Speaker 9: No, cheers for that, Andy.
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Speaker 10: Appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: a steak at a restaurant last night that moved at me,
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Speaker 2: and I thought, that's rare. He'd sneak away in the afternoon.
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Speaker 2: How cool a chat was that? All the best to
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Speaker 2: Elliot next week as he goes up against the pick
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Speaker 2: of the young auctioneers from around the country. That's us
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Speaker 2: over in Dunworth. I'm Andy Muir. The Must has brought
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Speaker 2: Dyke to see you out on a Wednesday. Catch you tomorrow.
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Speaker 4: I have got to learn that auction cry.
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Speaker 10: Gotta make my mark and be an auctioneer.
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Speaker 2: Rights and Mark Coulter's on the ground once again from
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Speaker 2: the Balclutha sale yards. They had a sale this morning. G'day, Mark.
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Speaker 2: How do we fare?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, g'day, Andy.
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Speaker 9: We're very good here again at Balclutha. The mutton schedule
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Speaker 9: and lamb schedule is staying very strong and just keeping
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Speaker 9: things bumped along very well. Getting to the prime lambs,
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Speaker 9: still quite a few prime lambs coming through from last
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Speaker 9: year without cut teeth. They're going from $ 270 to $ 320.
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Speaker 9: Your medium's still selling very well. They're at $ 230 to $ 260.
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Speaker 9: And then your tar lenders are not so bad themselves.
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Speaker 9: They're $ 190 to $ 210. Getting into the prime ewes, some
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Speaker 9: big heavy wet-dry ewes coming through, and they're going very
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Speaker 9: well with $ 290 to $ 320 for your big girls, $ 240
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Speaker 9: to $ 280 for your mediums, and your lighter ends are
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Speaker 9: anywhere from $ 140 to $ 180. Just a handful of store lambs,
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Speaker 9: and today they went from $ 150 to $ 190. A couple
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Speaker 9: of lines of ewes and lambs at foot were in.
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Speaker 9: The loitering ewes of lambs at foot were $ 145, and
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Speaker 9: your big heavy ewes of some very nicely marked lambs
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Speaker 9: there were $ 172. Going very well at that. Just a reminder,
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Speaker 9: our cattle sale is next Wednesday the 4th. Start at 9.30,
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Speaker 9: so get in touch with your local agent and hope
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Speaker 9: to see you all there.
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Speaker 4: Cheers.