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The Muster- Claire Teutenburg: Beef and Lamb NZ · The Muster on Hokonui

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  Speaker 1: The Muster Events Diary, brought to you by Beef and
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  Speaker 1: Lamb New Zealand. Click beeflamnz.com. Before we catch up with
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  Speaker 1: Claire Tootenberg, a bit out of how the album, that
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  Speaker 1: song there, all revved up and no place to go.
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  Speaker 1: It came off that album. Was it 1981? October 21st,
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  Speaker 1: 1977 is when that album was released. A hell of
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  Speaker 1: an album as well. Claire Tootenberg, good afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Hi Andy, how are you?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, look, not too bad, but you've been out on
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  Speaker 1: the ground. You had the first of your farmer shouts
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  Speaker 1: occur last night down at Tokanui. How was it?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it was great. The Tokanui community have kept me
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  Speaker 2: out a bit late last night. Didn't get home, didn't
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  Speaker 2: get tucked in bed till late. But, no, we had
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  Speaker 2: a wonderful turnout last night down at Tokanui. We had
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  Speaker 2: probably just over 100 people come down. So it was
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  Speaker 2: fantastic to see people get off farm after a, well,
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  Speaker 2: one of few days. beautiful bright days that we've had.
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  Speaker 1: How are people faring?
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  Speaker 2: It's mixed reviews I'd have to say but in general
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  Speaker 2: people are finding it really difficult and completely understandable. It's
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  Speaker 2: good to check in and see how people really are.
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  Speaker 2: As always the farming community quite often put on a
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  Speaker 2: brave face but it certainly is starting to wear people
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  Speaker 2: down and so we're really, fingers crossed, that we've got
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  Speaker 2: some sunshine coming soon.
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  Speaker 1: It's a situation where everybody's in the same boat. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it is.
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  Speaker 2: And there's definitely pockets that seem to have got more
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  Speaker 2: than others, but overall the rain measurements that we've been
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  Speaker 2: receiving have been extremely significant. Something that was raised last night,
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  Speaker 2: which was you know, so, you know, relatable was that
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  Speaker 2: this season it's just been progressively just rubbish the whole time.
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  Speaker 2: There hasn't been one big storm that's kind of wiped
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  Speaker 2: everything out and then it's got on with it. It's
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  Speaker 2: the fact that it's just been wet for such a
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  Speaker 2: progressively long time. You know, we've obviously had quite a
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  Speaker 2: wet August and then coming into spring with even, into, sorry,
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  Speaker 2: September with even more rain. So it's just been that
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  Speaker 2: consistent wet, that's really starting to have an impact. We're
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  Speaker 2: trying to think ahead as to what's sort of the
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  Speaker 2: next challenge. It's going to be a challenge that is
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  Speaker 2: going to be rolling on into summer. We do foresee
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  Speaker 2: there's going to be challenges with animal health. We're already
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  Speaker 2: seeing there are challenges with calves, young calves, but also,
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  Speaker 2: you know, lambs being born in wet, cold, muddy conditions,
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  Speaker 2: that naval infection issue I think that's going to rear
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  Speaker 2: its head. There could be, yeah, I think there'll be
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  Speaker 2: a few issues come up with lambs, older lambs that
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  Speaker 2: potentially give up the ghost and it's possibly down to
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  Speaker 2: that issue of being born in the wet, cold months.
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  Speaker 2: So we're certainly trying to look ahead to see what
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  Speaker 2: might pop up next and how we can best support
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  Speaker 2: to get some advice out there about how to deal
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  Speaker 2: with it.
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  Speaker 1: Based on that, what was the feedback you received last night?
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  Speaker 1: What are people asking of organisations like the Beef and Lamb,
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  Speaker 1: for example? What do they want?
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  Speaker 2: At this very point in time, whilst people are tired
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  Speaker 2: and they're busy, just the opportunity to come off farm,
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  Speaker 2: that just seems to be what it is at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: As it progresses through the season, certainly looking at ways
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  Speaker 2: in which they can manage food pasture. That's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a really big one that we see coming into play.
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  Speaker 2: And the other one is just managing our ewes. As
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  Speaker 2: much as we do, we do focus on obviously getting
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  Speaker 2: our lambs out the gate as quick as possible. That's
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  Speaker 2: the continuous focus we've got. But we certainly see a
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  Speaker 2: bit of a highlight on how we're going to better
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  Speaker 2: manage our ewes at weaning. We do see that ewes
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  Speaker 2: will be light, very light weaning. So we're looking at
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  Speaker 2: ways in which we can assist in management of ewes
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  Speaker 2: from weaning back through to next season's mating.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now you've got these events happening over the next week.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight it is the turn of Central Pirates Rapid Club
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  Speaker 1: Wilson's Crossing.
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  Speaker 2: It is the Central Pirates. No pressure but Tokanui really
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  Speaker 2: turned it on last night so looking to back that
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  Speaker 2: up again down at Central Pirates. Again we have The
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  Speaker 2: Rapid Relief team supporting us by cooking gourmet burgers. They
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  Speaker 2: were incredibly well received last night. An absolute fantastic service
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  Speaker 2: with burgers, volunteers there supporting us. And our beverages this
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  Speaker 2: evening will be kindly sponsored by the team at H & T.
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  Speaker 2: So hugely appreciative of everyone that's got on board. And
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  Speaker 2: then next week we have an event on Wednesday night
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  Speaker 2: at Wyndham at the Three Rivers Hotel. And then we're
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  Speaker 2: travelling all the way over to Blackmount over there to
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  Speaker 2: Brunel Peak's cafe and bar. So we are really, really
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  Speaker 2: keen to welcome people along to those SpringShout events.
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  Speaker 1: Upcoming events. You've got a speaker coming down next week, Claire?
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  Speaker 2: We do. On the 21st of October, we've got Professor
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  Speaker 2: Paul Kenyon coming down to Wyndham. One of the things
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  Speaker 2: as I was talking about before is looking at keeping
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  Speaker 2: one step ahead and trying to see what issues we
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  Speaker 2: may be able to provide support with. So Paul King
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  Speaker 2: is coming down to talk about managing your tutus and
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  Speaker 2: your ewes from weaning through to mating. So that is
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  Speaker 2: going to be a fantastic session with Paul. That's going
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  Speaker 2: to be at the Wyndham Memorial Hall on Wednesday the
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  Speaker 2: 21st of October. So Really do encourage people to make
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  Speaker 2: the most of Paul coming down to Southland. He's got
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  Speaker 2: wonderful knowledge that we'd like to utilise in this sort
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  Speaker 2: of season.
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  Speaker 1: So do people just turn up, they need to register?
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  Speaker 1: What's the case there?
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  Speaker 2: Please register online. We like people with registering online, but
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  Speaker 2: in saying that, if you decide on the day to
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  Speaker 2: turn up, I'm never going to turn you away.
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  Speaker 1: Good on you, Claire. Thanks for your time. Thanks, Andy.