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The Muster Full Show: 20/10/26 · The Muster on Hokonui

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon and welcome to the muster on Hakanui. I'm
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Speaker 1: Andy Muir. The show is brought to you by Petersonetics.
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Speaker 1: Thanks to your company. On a sunny yet overcast afternoon
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Speaker 1: here over the main street in Gore, looking at the
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Speaker 1: forecast shortly, pretty good over the next few days. But
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Speaker 1: wasn't it interesting in the sport news at one o'clock,
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Speaker 1: former Australian cricket coach Justin Langer coming out remembering Sandpaper
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Speaker 1: Gate because the Australians, they're touring in South Africa at
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Speaker 1: the moment and Justin Langer's saying, well, hang on, we're
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Speaker 1: not the only ones that are doing this. We were
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Speaker 1: the Skate Gates, remembering Cameron Bancroft got caught with sandpaper
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Speaker 1: on the paddock, on the field, sorry. And himself, Steve Smith,
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Speaker 1: and David Warner were the ones infiltrated there, but we
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Speaker 1: don't know what the hell went on. But there's a
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Speaker 1: lot more to the story than what's going on, and
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Speaker 1: just not those three Australians as well. You get the
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Speaker 1: feeling there's a lot more to this than meets the eye.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, into it for the hour. The cars is
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Speaker 1: the music. This song here, Drive, great song from the 80s.
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Speaker 1: When you fall away Tuesday afternoon sees partly cloudy weather
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Speaker 1: with breezy westerlies and a high of 19. Wednesday, sunshine
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Speaker 1: with breezy nor'westerlies, 11 and 20. That's a theme for
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Speaker 1: the week. Thursday, cloudy with nor'westerlies, 11 and 18. Friday,
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Speaker 1: sunshine with breezy nor'westerlies, 10 and 22. And Saturday, sunny
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Speaker 1: with breezy westerlies, 12 and 21. Currently we're sitting on
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Speaker 1: 16 degrees too, it's rather pleasant. People getting out and
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Speaker 1: about in shorts and t-shirts, it's a good thing. So temperatures,
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Speaker 1: Clinton 12, Heriot 11.2, Northern Southland 12.5, Riverton 12.6, Te
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Speaker 1: Anau 11.5, Titiroa 12.1, Winton 12, And Woodlands, 10.8. Grant
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Speaker 1: McMaster at Closeburn Station gets us underway, as he does
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Speaker 1: on a Tuesday. Of course, thanks to Batman and the
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Speaker 1: team at Arby Rural. Cass Ralber, Vice President of Southland
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Speaker 1: Federated Farmers, is on the programme. Then we're away to
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Speaker 1: Jericho Station near Manapouri. Harriet Bremner. I think Harriet's been
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Speaker 1: dagging hoggarts this morning and helping out and catching during lunchtime.
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Speaker 1: So we'll see how things are going. I think the
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Speaker 1: weather over in Herneck of the Woods isn't looking too
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Speaker 1: bad at the moment. Janine Easton's on the programme on
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Speaker 1: behalf of Bioactive Soils. And then in the Young Farmers chat,
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Speaker 1: Richard Bell, who's part of the Nightcaps Club. Sam Riley
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Speaker 1: of PDG Wrightson gives a rundown on the stock prices
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Speaker 1: that occurred at the Longwell sale this morning. And he
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Speaker 1: texted before and said, these lamb numbers, these lamb prices
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Speaker 1: are still looking pretty buoyant, let alone mutton. So without
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Speaker 1: further ado, we'll crank into it next. Start the hour
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Speaker 1: with Grant McMaster. This is the muster until two o'clock.
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Speaker 1: Thanks to Peter's Genetics. Seven after one. Grant Disaster McMaster
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Speaker 1: farms on the edge of Lake Wakatipu at Closeburn Station
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Speaker 1: and joins us. Just what I needed on a Tuesday
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Speaker 1: afternoon was our Dose of Arby Rural-inspired Grant. G'day.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, good afternoon, Andy. Good afternoon, everybody.
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Speaker 1: How's everything in the basin?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, lovely in the basin. We've had a pretty good week. Well, well,
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Speaker 2: the start of the week, mind you, it's only Tuesday. No,
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Speaker 2: lovely at the moment, 12 degrees. The soil temperature's sitting
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Speaker 2: at 12 as well, and beautiful, clear day, and we've
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Speaker 2: certainly got a bit of a lift on the grass.
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Speaker 2: It's growing away, but the last week was cold on
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Speaker 2: Wednesday night, Thursday. We had, well, we've had 53 mils
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Speaker 2: of rain up until last Friday, or Thursday, so that's
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Speaker 2: Tuesday after we spoke. And we got snow with that
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Speaker 2: and a really good covering of snow halfway down around
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Speaker 2: the mountains. And as a result, we've had a couple
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Speaker 2: of hard frosts. So that is, it's made the grass
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Speaker 2: go a wee bit black if you were driving on it,
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Speaker 2: but it's certainly taken a few trees out, sort of
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Speaker 2: turned a few leaves up and what have you. So, yeah,
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Speaker 2: that snow stayed around and really it only, it really
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Speaker 2: disappeared yesterday. So Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Friday, It started going
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Speaker 2: on Sunday and away yesterday, so it just shows you
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Speaker 2: that it hadn't been that warm. There was actually more
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Speaker 2: snow on those ski fields looking at them than there
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Speaker 2: were the last two weeks when they were still open. So, yeah,
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Speaker 2: it was a good fall and it got pretty bloody cold.
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Speaker 1: You made the comment before you had to go and
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Speaker 1: put the slacks on. I mean, I think you're wearing
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Speaker 1: slacks like a pair of beige Deans from the 1970s.
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Speaker 2: Well, I was watching an old country calendar programme last
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Speaker 2: night on the... on the Castle Point races, and that
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Speaker 2: was in 1981, and the fashion there was pretty good,
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Speaker 2: and that was the year I went overseas, and I
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Speaker 2: got to that university in England, and they sort of
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Speaker 2: looked at me as though I was from outer space
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Speaker 2: with the dress sense, or lack of it, but looking
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Speaker 2: at that program, that was the year I went, I
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Speaker 2: was actually fitted in well into New Zealand, because, jeez,
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Speaker 2: there were some good fashions back then.
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Speaker 1: Well, you had the, all flares are back in, arguably,
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Speaker 1: these days, and the big collared neck, and it's like
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Speaker 1: the fashion has done a full circle. It came back
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Speaker 1: in in the late 90s, went out again, but these days,
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Speaker 1: it's really cool to be wearing flared denim, apparently.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if it was ever really cool, but
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Speaker 2: we did wear them, so I know it was quite interesting,
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Speaker 2: another good one of those old looking back on country
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Speaker 2: calendar things. But no, you had the slacks on, all right,
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Speaker 2: and pleased to put them on, but the fire went
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Speaker 2: for another three or four days, and... Good job the
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Speaker 2: spuds aren't in, because otherwise they would have got frosted.
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Speaker 1: How bad are the frosts been, though, recently? Normally, you
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Speaker 1: might have a tinge of a frost in mid-October. We
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Speaker 1: get that, but not a couple of humdingers.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, they were, like, they were minus probably three.
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Speaker 1: Oh, jeepers.
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Speaker 2: Two or three, yeah. So, no, they were pretty good.
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Speaker 2: And I was saying to you off-air that we, oh,
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Speaker 2: 20-odd years ago, planted an orchard up here on the station,
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Speaker 2: on the residential area, with, you know, plum, plum trees... nectarines, peaches, pears, cherries, apples,
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Speaker 2: and they, you know, you've heard me bang on enough
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Speaker 2: about being a late, you know, a short-growing season. Well,
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Speaker 2: you know, you get the blossom on the trees this
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Speaker 2: time of the year, and then you get a couple
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Speaker 2: of those frosts, and it certainly takes the pleasure out
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Speaker 2: of eating what fruit you're going to get in the autumn.
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Speaker 2: And then we're generally pretty good with apples. They seem
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Speaker 2: to survive, but when the peaches and the apricots, if
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Speaker 2: you get them, they come so late in the season
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Speaker 2: that They don't get time to ripen, so then the
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Speaker 2: possums enjoy those. So it's hard to get it right,
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Speaker 2: but certainly if we didn't have those frosts, it's sort
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Speaker 2: of not abnormal for here, especially with a bit of
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Speaker 2: snow going around and just the climate where we are.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, some of our trees that we've planted over
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Speaker 2: the years, like last year in a couple of tree lanes,
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Speaker 2: they've had a wee bit of a tickle up, so
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Speaker 2: hopefully they'll spring back or turn them back a bit
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Speaker 2: and see what happens.
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Speaker 1: You talked about climate there, Grant. Now, climate change is
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Speaker 1: something affecting a lot of people in whatever way, shape
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Speaker 1: or form. You'd like to talk about it today.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I just read a really good article written
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Speaker 2: by Richard Dawkins. He's the water spokesman for Federated Farmers,
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Speaker 2: and it was in one of the Farmers' Weeklys I
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Speaker 2: was just reading the other day. And, you know, it
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Speaker 2: talks about the great climate debate, and it's all about,
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Speaker 2: you know, the emissions, being taxed on emissions, and methane
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Speaker 2: targets and the debate looks at, you know, it looks
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Speaker 2: a lot different on farm, doesn't it? You know, we're
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Speaker 2: talking about something that is happening. But his article is
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Speaker 2: about investing before the events happen and, you know, goes
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Speaker 2: on to say, like, if we met every climate target tomorrow,
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Speaker 2: we still need to deal with the adverse weather conditions
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Speaker 2: that are coming from the climate changing and for whatever
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Speaker 2: reason it's changing and we've had ice ages before, we'll
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Speaker 2: probably have them again and what have you. I just
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Speaker 2: think it's a cycle of the way things go. But
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Speaker 2: his article was really good and he was basically saying
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Speaker 2: we need to be putting in the infrastructure to help
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Speaker 2: for these events and that's certainly not really happening. You
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Speaker 2: look at water storage, it's a bigger study have trying
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Speaker 2: to get permits to get water in and, you know,
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Speaker 2: all the water that falls and isn't it something about 97%
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Speaker 2: of it just goes straight down the rivers into the
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Speaker 2: sea or some bloody thing like that, you know, and
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Speaker 2: the problem and the thing, the hoops you've got to
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Speaker 2: jump through to try and get consent to put water
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Speaker 2: storage in that, you know, and if It is getting drier. Well,
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Speaker 2: don't we need water to grow crops so we can be,
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Speaker 2: you know, we can be lifting productivity and that strengthens
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Speaker 2: all our rural communities? And, you know, we're always asked...
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Speaker 2: The article goes on to say that's a really good point,
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Speaker 2: you know. They're always asking us to adapt within the
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Speaker 2: farm gate while the structure around us can't keep up
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Speaker 2: with anything, whether it be, you know, culverts, rivers, bloody...
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Speaker 2: You name it. And I was just thinking... That's a
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Speaker 2: classic example, not just in Queenstown, but a lot of
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Speaker 2: other rural communities and cities within New Zealand, that infrastructure
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Speaker 2: has been kept up over the years, and there's all
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Speaker 2: different reasons for that, and they'll continue to be debated.
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Speaker 2: But I just look at our small place here, and
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Speaker 2: we've had to redo tracks and try and get creeks
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Speaker 2: back into where they were after just massive blowouts. Now,
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Speaker 2: We've spent $ 100, 000 on that over the last two years
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Speaker 2: to try and get that right. so it's not causing
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Speaker 2: more damage than it was before we started. Same within Queenstown.
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Speaker 2: These creeks had all come down and there's pine trees
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Speaker 2: around and there's houses and the creeks are rocky and
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Speaker 2: they used to put culverts in that weren't big enough.
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Speaker 2: They try and put the bigger the culvert they go,
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Speaker 2: That's great, but it's not actually helping when it does help,
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Speaker 2: but we're still left with these problems. So I think
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Speaker 2: his article is really worth a read. It's about getting
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Speaker 2: the money, and it's got to come from central government.
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Speaker 2: We can fundraise so much and get grants, which is
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Speaker 2: bugger all, but it's got to come from central government.
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Speaker 2: and it's about looking at what's happening here. We know
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Speaker 2: the climate's changing, but, look, let's deal with what we are...
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Speaker 2: Let's deal with what is facing us, as in what
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Speaker 2: I've just spoken about. And that's why I think we
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Speaker 2: need more partisan agreements, bipartisan in these governments when they're
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Speaker 2: formed or whatever. Otherwise, you know, it's all very well,
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Speaker 2: as the article says, going around and trying to meet
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Speaker 2: these targets that are bloody impossible anyway, and we shouldn't
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Speaker 2: be doing it, but that's another story. let's get in
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Speaker 2: and be proactive and do what we've done as Kiwis,
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Speaker 2: and especially farmers, get in and get it right and
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Speaker 2: try and prevent it. Try and prevent before the proverbial
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Speaker 2: hits the fan. We know it's going to happen, but
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Speaker 2: we need to try and deal with it.
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Speaker 1: Two things we'd love to see happen, less paper trails
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Speaker 1: and bipartisan agreement.
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Speaker 2: I don't see any other way. And, you know, everybody's
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Speaker 2: on the soapbox this time of the year and it's,
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Speaker 2: you know, it's a bit like Pinocchio. They've all got
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Speaker 2: a story to tell, but... We've got to get back
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Speaker 2: to the basics. We've got to look after our people
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Speaker 2: and our environment. And yes, the climate's changing, but let's
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Speaker 2: bloody look after what we can look after.
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Speaker 1: How would you have gone as an MP?
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Speaker 2: Oh, I wouldn't last very long, I would have thought.
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Speaker 1: Well, kicked out for swearing within three hours?
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I can handle the swearing, all right.
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Speaker 2: But it's good if you can put the old adjective in,
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Speaker 2: of course. But no, I don't know. I do, you know,
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Speaker 2: there's a lot of... There's a lot of people in
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Speaker 2: there doing a lot of back padding, and I just
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Speaker 2: don't think there's, you know, we just need to have
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Speaker 2: a few people in there that are doing the work
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Speaker 2: and let them get on with it. A bit like farming.
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Speaker 2: Let us handle our own bloody destiny and let us
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Speaker 2: do what we do well.
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Speaker 1: Words of wisdom as always, Grant. Enjoy the afternoon.
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Speaker 2: Well done, Andy. Take care.
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Speaker 1: Grant Disaster McMaster, brought to you weekly, brought to us
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Speaker 1: weekly by the team at rbrural.com. Cass Rauber's up next
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Speaker 1: from Southland Federated Farmers.
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Speaker 3: The muster on the farm with Southland District Council working
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Speaker 3: together for a better Southland.
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Speaker 1: Cass Rauber is Vice President of Southland Federated Farmers. Dairy
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Speaker 1: farming not far from Hedgehog catches up with us this afternoon.
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Speaker 1: G'day Cass, how's things?
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Speaker 4: Good afternoon, Andy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, good, good.
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Speaker 1: Everything drying out up your way?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's starting to dry out and grass is starting
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Speaker 4: to grow. So, yeah, it's just been another challenging spring
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Speaker 4: in Southland. Probably three from three now that have sort
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Speaker 4: of served us better than worse. Yeah, well, better than good. So, yeah,
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Speaker 4: obviously different parts of Southland are affected differently. But, yeah,
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Speaker 4: this is definitely another wet spring that we've had.
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Speaker 1: Well, hopefully we can get that sunshine down to where
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Speaker 1: it's needed. But it's another anniversary this week as well.
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Speaker 1: Notorious at that, the wind anniversary. I think it was
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Speaker 1: the 21st of October 2025. What do you remember about it?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was definitely something we try not to think about. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: obviously a lot of damage caused. I know ourselves, we
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Speaker 4: had about 50-odd trees down there. Like, look, the bulk
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Speaker 4: of Southland is probably cleaned up, but there is still
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Speaker 4: the odd stack of logs around from people that will
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Speaker 4: be saving the logs there to chip for wood chip
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Speaker 4: later on. There's probably still the odd tree with a
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Speaker 4: temporary fence around it somewhere in Southland. But, yeah, 99%, 95%,
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Speaker 4: I'd say, has been cleaned up in that sense. We're
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Speaker 4: probably all a little bit more prepared for something like
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Speaker 4: that now.
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Speaker 1: Do you think that event got the message through to
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Speaker 1: farmers as far as generators and having a Plan B?
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Speaker 1: Is that what it took?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think it's not just Plan B. I
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Speaker 4: think it's about Plan C, really. Like, a lot of
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Speaker 4: people used to have a Plan B where they owned
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Speaker 4: a generator with extended family or good friends or next-door
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Speaker 4: neighbour and might have been two or three people, and
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Speaker 4: that was Plan B. The problem was when it affects everyone,
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Speaker 4: you sort of have to start moving on to plan
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Speaker 4: C and people hadn't really thought of the next step. So, yeah, unfortunately,
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Speaker 4: it's a tough way of learning, but it's the way
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Speaker 4: we've had to learn from it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Hey, another thing as well that's been a hot topic
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Speaker 1: recently is regarding rural connectivity with 3G being switched off
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Speaker 1: nearly six months ago. Now, where are you based? What's
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Speaker 1: it like for cell coverage and that? Do you struggle?
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Speaker 4: Here in Hedgehog, we definitely seem to struggle with cell service.
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Speaker 4: Might be a little bit of an understatement, but yeah,
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Speaker 4: we definitely struggle. We had telemetry stuff on farm that
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Speaker 4: used the 3G network that no longer operates. We've chosen
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Speaker 4: not to upgrade that. Most people on subscription-based systems that
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Speaker 4: had systems that ran on 3G have all been sort
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Speaker 4: of updated, but there's definitely stuff that people... no longer
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Speaker 4: have connected because of that. I know ourselves, we've gone
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Speaker 4: to multiple Starlink units, despite I don't like pushing brand
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Speaker 4: names by any means, but their satellite internet seems to
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Speaker 4: work very well for us.
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Speaker 1: Do you think the telcos could have done a lot
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Speaker 1: more to work with rural New Zealand regarding the 3G situation?
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Speaker 4: I feel they can, but I believe it's probably a
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Speaker 4: cost issue. I believe, I don't know. I think we
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Speaker 4: have a bit of competition out there in the network.
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Speaker 4: It seems to be getting worse, not better.
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Speaker 1: A couple of things that have come out recently regarding
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Speaker 1: the Animal Welfare Code of Conduct and the Dairy Restructuring Act.
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Speaker 1: What can you tell us about these?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the Animal Welfare Code of Conduct came out. I
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Speaker 4: think for most people that's going to be sort of
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Speaker 4: status quo. There's not a lot. There is a couple
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Speaker 4: of little bits and pieces in there that will have
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Speaker 4: to change for some people. But all in all, it's
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Speaker 4: pretty straightforward. It's pretty common practice for most farms. So, yeah,
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Speaker 4: I don't think it will affect people that badly.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 4: There's obviously also the Dairy Restructuring Act. Fonterra's been going
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Speaker 4: for 25 years now, as of a couple of days
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Speaker 4: ago was its anniversary. So, yeah, Dairy Restructuring Act is...
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Speaker 4: They've released, like, an issue discussion document that came out
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Speaker 4: end of September, and consultations open to that tool with
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Speaker 4: submissions rather till the end of October.
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Speaker 2: So, yeah.
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Speaker 4: There'll be a few, but there's a few bits and
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Speaker 4: pieces going on with that right now. What else have
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Speaker 4: we got going on? We've also got the Dairy Industry Awards.
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Speaker 1: That's a good event, isn't it? Dairy Industry Awards. Tell
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Speaker 1: us more about it.
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Speaker 4: Tell us more. Well, entries are open at the moment
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Speaker 4: for the awards. They have early bird open until the
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Speaker 4: 26th of October. So there's a few prizes up for
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Speaker 4: grabs for those early bird people. and entries close on
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Speaker 4: the 6th of December, which will come around pretty quick.
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Speaker 4: So if people are looking at joining up or entering,
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Speaker 4: you might as well jump on the early bird and
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Speaker 4: get yourself available for that prize pool there as well.
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Speaker 1: It's about celebrating all the good in the industry, Cass. Hey,
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Speaker 1: thanks for your time. Enjoy the afternoon.
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Speaker 4: No problem. Cheers, Yarning.
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Speaker 1: Cass Rauber of South Confederated Farmers. Vice President, you're listening
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Speaker 1: to The Muster. From Hedge Oak, we're going over to
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Speaker 1: just the Fiordland Basin next with Harriet Bremner. Here she
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Speaker 1: comes again. When she's dead to me, destroy the shine.
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Speaker 1: Here she comes again.
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Speaker 4: I kind of like the way, like the way she's dead.
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Speaker 1: The cars, that's the music for a Tuesday afternoon. You're
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Speaker 1: listening to the muster on Hokonui as we head over
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Speaker 1: to Jericho Station, not far from Manapōuri, and we catch
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Speaker 1: up with Harriet Bremner once again. G'day, Harriet. How are you? G'day, Andy.
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Speaker 5: Not too bad, thank you. Enjoying the sunshine, digging hoggets today,
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Speaker 5: so it's nice that it's a nice day, but those
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Speaker 5: days are always a bit long and drawn out, aren't they?
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Speaker 1: It's just one of those repetitive jobs that needs done,
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Speaker 1: I suppose.
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Speaker 5: It is, and, you know, one of those jobs that
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Speaker 5: you just can't make go any faster, so it is
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Speaker 5: what it is.
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Speaker 1: So you're just pushing up?
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Speaker 5: Yep, just pushing up today. We've got a two-stand trailer there, so,
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Speaker 5: you know, it's better than doing them ourselves. But, yeah,
19:34
Speaker 5: not the most exciting job in the world, but that's OK.
19:36
Speaker 5: It has to be done.
19:37
Speaker 1: These portable dagging trailers, though, they've been a game-changer for
19:40
Speaker 1: handpiece work for a lot of people, it's fair to say.
19:44
Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, you'd like to think so. I mean, yeah,
19:47
Speaker 5: a bit easier on the body for those that are
19:48
Speaker 5: doing the dagging and stuff and definitely can get through
19:51
Speaker 5: some more numbers. So, no, it's great. And, yeah, we
19:54
Speaker 5: can't complain they're not too dirty. So, yeah, it's just
19:58
Speaker 5: another job ticking off the list this week amongst the
20:00
Speaker 5: tractor work and, you know, playing a bit of catch
20:03
Speaker 5: up since it's dried out a bit.
20:04
Speaker 2: Which is good.
20:05
Speaker 1: How are the hoggets looking?
20:06
Speaker 4: Good.
20:08
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, they're looking really good, Andy, actually. We didn't
20:10
Speaker 5: put ours in lamb this year, so that's been really nice. But, yeah,
20:16
Speaker 5: I'm actually excited to see how they grow out, having
20:18
Speaker 5: not had a lamb. So I think that'll be pretty
20:21
Speaker 5: cool to see. But, yeah, no, we're happy with them,
20:22
Speaker 5: so that's good.
20:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've talked about this before. A lot of people
20:25
Speaker 1: putting hoggets into lamb, but you guys going the other way.
20:28
Speaker 1: So it will be interesting to see what the difference
20:31
Speaker 1: is when they're tutu's.
20:33
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think so. I'm looking forward to a scanning
20:36
Speaker 5: result as a tutus. And then, you know, I suppose
20:39
Speaker 5: a lot of people talk about you get another year
20:42
Speaker 5: out of them at the other end. So everybody's got
20:44
Speaker 5: different opinions when it comes to hoggets and mating them,
20:47
Speaker 5: don't they? But it's the first year we haven't done it,
20:49
Speaker 5: but it's made my lambing bait a lot more pleasant.
20:53
Speaker 5: And I'm not missing them, that's for sure.
20:55
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and talking about a lot of people having opinion
20:58
Speaker 1: at the moment regarding Education Minister Erica Stamford proposing that agriculture,
21:03
Speaker 1: agribusiness and horticultural science be dropped from the Year 11
21:08
Speaker 1: as standalone subjects. This is not good thinking on her behalf.
21:13
Speaker 5: No, look, I agree with you. It's really disappointing. You know,
21:19
Speaker 5: we've talked before, I think you'd like to think that
21:22
Speaker 5: the education system has come further forward than that by now.
21:26
Speaker 5: From when we were at school, for me personally, it
21:29
Speaker 5: wasn't an option to do ag. And all my friends
21:32
Speaker 5: at school at the time, we all really wanted to
21:34
Speaker 5: do it. And we're all now in agriculture, whether we're
21:37
Speaker 5: on farm or working in the industry in some way,
21:40
Speaker 5: shape or form. So I think you like to think
21:43
Speaker 5: that those people that want to do it for their
21:45
Speaker 5: future will find a way. But If we want to
21:47
Speaker 5: get other people into our sector and expose them to ag,
21:51
Speaker 5: then it's got to start at school really, doesn't it?
21:53
Speaker 5: And yeah, I think this is just going to make
21:56
Speaker 5: some things harder, isn't it?
21:58
Speaker 1: I spoke to Mel Young from Southland Girls High School
22:00
Speaker 1: on the programme the other day, and she talked about
22:04
Speaker 1: the Young Farmers Movement, 120 of the ladies at school
22:08
Speaker 1: being involved with it, the students, and just going up
22:11
Speaker 1: and up, and they were just driving the ag programme
22:14
Speaker 1: as such. And I asked her why. She just said
22:17
Speaker 1: one thing, they've got a passion for the industry.
22:19
Speaker 5: Oh, and that's so cool to hear, isn't it? And
22:21
Speaker 5: I think that the people that have been immersed in
22:25
Speaker 5: it as a young child growing up, you know, on
22:28
Speaker 5: a farm or having been exposed to farms, they've already
22:32
Speaker 5: had the opportunity to have a look into the industry.
22:35
Speaker 5: But I'm also thinking about those kids that are growing
22:38
Speaker 5: up that, you know, maybe are watching from afar and wondering,
22:41
Speaker 5: how on earth would I get into that industry? And
22:43
Speaker 5: if they don't have the opportunity at school to do that,
22:46
Speaker 5: you know, what options are there? Obviously, if you've got
22:49
Speaker 5: university or going straight out and working on farms, or
22:53
Speaker 5: you're growing future farmers and, you know, avenues like that.
22:56
Speaker 5: But it would be really key, I think, to have
22:58
Speaker 5: the opportunity from 15 years old and then, you know,
23:02
Speaker 5: they can start the plan for their career from there,
23:06
Speaker 5: can't they?
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Speaker 1: And we're living in a society these days where, ironically enough,
23:11
Speaker 1: city children or people living in an urban environment in
23:14
Speaker 1: the big cities, especially around the world, still believe that
23:18
Speaker 1: milk just grows overnight in the supermarket.
23:22
Speaker 5: Yeah oh we were talking about this the other day
23:24
Speaker 5: and it's funny isn't it because i'm i'm sure a
23:27
Speaker 5: lot of people when they go to the supermarket you
23:30
Speaker 5: know they're looking for the best deals and things as
23:32
Speaker 5: we all tend to but are they really thinking about
23:36
Speaker 5: where has that mince come from or that lamb you
23:38
Speaker 5: know um so there is a big disconnect isn't there
23:42
Speaker 5: these days and you know friends of mine generation all
23:47
Speaker 5: had connections with farms you know cousins that had farms
23:49
Speaker 5: and they would spend school holidays on those farms and
23:51
Speaker 5: things but i talk to friends that are teaching in
23:54
Speaker 5: urban schools now and their kids in their classrooms don't
23:58
Speaker 5: have any of those opportunities even as primary school children
24:02
Speaker 5: to spend time on farms and school holidays and things
24:05
Speaker 5: so they're just not getting that initial connection with rural
24:08
Speaker 5: life which is a real shame It's.
24:10
Speaker 1: The same old story, and I like this saying, you
24:12
Speaker 1: walk into a supermarket an environmentalist, yet you leave an economist.
24:17
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, well, it's really interesting because I think we
24:21
Speaker 5: were spoken to by the supermarkets on my Xander McDonald tour,
24:24
Speaker 5: and they were saying that during the cost of living
24:29
Speaker 5: crisis that people were, the first thing that they dropped
24:33
Speaker 5: was the prices that they were spending on meat products,
24:36
Speaker 5: so they suddenly started buying the cheapest meat meats that
24:39
Speaker 5: they could for the whole week and then they were
24:42
Speaker 5: shouting themselves to like one really nice piece of meat
24:45
Speaker 5: you know on like a Saturday night because they was
24:48
Speaker 5: like their treat does that make sense so rather than
24:50
Speaker 5: eating middle yeah yeah middle range meat for the whole
24:54
Speaker 5: week they were dropping their standard for most of the
24:56
Speaker 5: week and then eating one more expensive cut just one
25:00
Speaker 5: night of the week so it's just interesting the psychology
25:03
Speaker 5: around that as well I think.
25:04
Speaker 1: Chicken and pork, especially the pork industry on social media recently, Harriet,
25:08
Speaker 1: they've been out there saying, what's the difference between the
25:11
Speaker 1: two dishes? They've got a beef mince and they've got
25:14
Speaker 1: pork mince, and they're just saying simply the price.
25:18
Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, well, you and I both know at the moment,
25:20
Speaker 5: you know, I've ordered my groceries to pick up today
25:22
Speaker 5: with a delivery, and every time I unpack them at
25:26
Speaker 5: the moment, there are no treats in there and there's
25:28
Speaker 5: no nice things, but it's very expensive, and that's, You know,
25:32
Speaker 5: the only meat that I buy is chicken. Obviously, we
25:35
Speaker 5: eat everything else off the farm. But, you know, if
25:39
Speaker 5: people are having to purchase all of their meat products
25:41
Speaker 5: from the supermarket as well, it must be seriously expensive, even,
25:47
Speaker 5: you know, if they are trying to buy the cheaper cuts.
25:49
Speaker 5: So I can understand why people are making those choices.
25:53
Speaker 1: You have got an interesting week ahead of you. Your
25:56
Speaker 1: collar wearables are turning up.
25:59
Speaker 5: Yeah, look, so excited. We've got 500 halter collars turning
26:02
Speaker 5: up hopefully Thursday for all the young stock and then
26:06
Speaker 5: another 350 of them turning up for the mixed-age cows
26:09
Speaker 5: in November at calf marking time. So, yeah, we've got
26:13
Speaker 5: tractors going, we're haltering all the young stock and, yeah,
26:18
Speaker 5: today dagging and, oh, yeah, she's pretty busy for this
26:25
Speaker 5: couple of weeks but super excited to see what we
26:28
Speaker 5: can do with halter moving forward. And, yeah, Neil and
26:31
Speaker 5: I just can't wait to get them on and get
26:34
Speaker 5: cranking into it. So, yeah, I think it's going to
26:36
Speaker 5: be a game changer, especially actually for us on the hill.
26:39
Speaker 5: You know, our flats are already like a dairy farm.
26:42
Speaker 5: So I think pasture growth will increase down there too,
26:46
Speaker 5: but what we'll be able to do with the cows
26:47
Speaker 5: on the hill too will be really cool to see.
26:50
Speaker 1: And your previous winner of the Xander MacDonald Award nominations
26:54
Speaker 1: or entries, I suppose, better terminology, they're open at the
26:57
Speaker 1: moment still?
26:59
Speaker 5: Yeah, the entries are open and I just wanted to
27:01
Speaker 5: have a shout out to the award and say that
27:03
Speaker 5: if anybody is curious or wondering whether they should apply,
27:08
Speaker 5: then please just do because it's a great process to
27:11
Speaker 5: go through to figure out where you're at for yourself.
27:15
Speaker 5: But also if you get the opportunity to move forward
27:17
Speaker 5: and be part of the alumni and part of the
27:19
Speaker 5: Zander family, then it is really a life changing thing
27:23
Speaker 5: that you can do. You know, I had to have
27:25
Speaker 5: a wee push to apply myself. But you've got nothing
27:28
Speaker 5: to lose and everything to gain. So go ahead and
27:31
Speaker 5: head and apply. And if you've got any questions about it,
27:34
Speaker 5: flick me a message on social media through Gert and
27:37
Speaker 5: Pops and I can answer any questions.
27:38
Speaker 1: Good on you, Harriet. All the best with that dagging trailer. Thanks, Andy.
27:43
Speaker 5: Hopefully it doesn't get too much hotter.
27:47
Speaker 1: Harriet Remner, based over at Jericho Station. And very busy
27:51
Speaker 1: at the moment, as a lot of people are, as
27:53
Speaker 1: we see sunshine just radiantly dancing over the main street
27:57
Speaker 1: of Gore. How's that for a description? Janine Easton's up next.
28:00
Speaker 1: You're listening to The Muster. Shake it up.
28:05
Speaker 6: Shake it.
28:08
Speaker 4: Up.
28:13
Speaker 1: This is the muster on Hokanui. We're away down to
28:15
Speaker 1: Aroa next. We are catching up with Janine Easton talking
28:19
Speaker 1: bioactive soils. Janine, good afternoon and welcome.
28:22
Speaker 7: Good afternoon.
28:24
Speaker 1: Now, Steve Allison, we get him on the show regularly
28:26
Speaker 1: talking about bioactive soils. You're based right down south. Firstly,
28:30
Speaker 1: tell us about your farming situation.
28:33
Speaker 7: Okay, so we milk 300 cows down in Aroa, quite
28:37
Speaker 7: a lot of peat soils, Our growth is reasonably slow,
28:43
Speaker 7: and we really felt that our organic matter was lacking. Basically,
28:48
Speaker 7: my husband's a truck driver, and he was driving around
28:51
Speaker 7: the place, and he could see a lot of really
28:54
Speaker 7: good soils, and he thought, why is their graft looking
28:57
Speaker 7: better than ours? So after a bit of investigation, my
29:00
Speaker 7: husband come home and said, right, Janine, we need to
29:03
Speaker 7: try this bioactive. Only the The problem was I are
29:11
Speaker 7: in business with two of my brothers, and one of
29:14
Speaker 7: them's quite a sceptic. Basically, he's been using your general
29:19
Speaker 7: fruits for some years. He's worked out the response rate
29:22
Speaker 7: he gets, and he sort of thought this bioactive was
29:26
Speaker 7: a bit airy-fairy, if that's the correct words to use.
29:31
Speaker 7: But after a bit of convincing, we tried it, and
29:34
Speaker 7: we've certainly seen a vast improvement in our grass quality
29:37
Speaker 7: and how it looked.
29:39
Speaker 1: Say her husband's a truckie, he's driving around the province,
29:42
Speaker 1: he knows the lay of the land, some grasses, not
29:45
Speaker 1: all grasses are created equal, I suppose.
29:48
Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly. And I guess the grass, since you've been
29:52
Speaker 7: using Bioactive, it just looks healthy. It's not as long-term
29:57
Speaker 7: but it's dense, you know. It's a real healthy, high
30:03
Speaker 7: dry matter at the base sort of, you know, just
30:05
Speaker 7: really solid grass.
30:08
Speaker 1: Okay, when you first started using the product, did you
30:10
Speaker 1: do like a trial period or how did you go
30:12
Speaker 1: about it?
30:14
Speaker 7: I didn't personally. I went all in and we just went, right,
30:18
Speaker 7: we're going to use it on everything. If we're going
30:19
Speaker 7: to do this, we're going to do it. But my brother,
30:22
Speaker 7: the skeptic, he decided to use half, on his farm
30:28
Speaker 7: and half conventional and had a cup of tea with
30:32
Speaker 7: him yesterday because obviously, you know, we debated about this
30:35
Speaker 7: for a bit and I was quite adamant and he
30:37
Speaker 7: was quite anti. But he certainly admitted yesterday that the
30:41
Speaker 7: area of his farm that he's put the bioactive on
30:44
Speaker 7: is by far healthier and greener looking and growing better
30:48
Speaker 7: grass than what his conventional fertilizer is.
30:52
Speaker 1: Were you just frustrated at the way your soil was
30:55
Speaker 1: looking over the last couple of seasons and such? Was
30:58
Speaker 1: that the catalyst?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, definitely frustrated. Just trying to keep the grass quality
31:06
Speaker 7: was difficult. My husband and I both work off-farm. We're
31:10
Speaker 7: really busy, and we've found the Bioactive really easy. It's
31:13
Speaker 7: an easy product to manage. It's an easy routine to follow.
31:18
Speaker 7: It's all the same. They've got a product for when
31:20
Speaker 7: we're putting in our new grass, a product for our crop.
31:24
Speaker 7: You know, they've got spring starts with a bit of
31:27
Speaker 7: nitrogen in. You know, they've got everything that we need,
31:30
Speaker 7: and it's just easy. And Steve is so easy to
31:34
Speaker 7: work with. It's just a quick phone call. Everything's ordered.
31:38
Speaker 7: I don't have to spend a whole lot of time
31:39
Speaker 7: on it.
31:39
Speaker 1: How long have you been using it for now?
31:43
Speaker 7: So a couple of seasons now, and definitely, definitely stoked
31:48
Speaker 7: with it.
31:49
Speaker 1: What about the cost of it? What's happened in that
31:51
Speaker 1: side of things, Janine?
31:53
Speaker 7: Well, actually it was interesting because when I did my
31:56
Speaker 7: bioactive budget compared to my standard FERP budget, it came
32:02
Speaker 7: in at $ 10, 000 cheaper. It's not just the price, it's
32:04
Speaker 7: also our nitrogen use is down. Now don't get me wrong,
32:07
Speaker 7: the bioactive has nitrogen in it, but it's a natural
32:11
Speaker 7: nitrogen and you just don't need as much. So my
32:15
Speaker 7: annual unit was down to about $ 80, 000. versus the usual 190.
32:20
Speaker 1: How is the season down there? From your situation, how's
32:25
Speaker 1: it been? How have you found it?
32:28
Speaker 7: Look, it's certainly been challenging. I guess from the mental
32:32
Speaker 7: side of things, the third season in a row like this,
32:36
Speaker 7: the first season you go, look, it'll be better next year.
32:41
Speaker 7: It's a one-off. The second season you start to be
32:44
Speaker 7: a wee bit less optimistic. But the third season you're thinking,
32:48
Speaker 7: Is this the way it is now? Are we going
32:51
Speaker 7: to be struggling every spring? What are we going to
32:53
Speaker 7: do to improve things?
32:55
Speaker 1: So are you looking at doing anything different on your
32:57
Speaker 1: system as a result of this or it is what
33:00
Speaker 1: it is? That's the season.
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Speaker 7: Yeah well look we've certainly made some changes in the
33:04
Speaker 7: way of we put grain feeding in a couple years
33:07
Speaker 7: ago we've got a barn that we carve in and
33:11
Speaker 7: we try and get the carvers out as soon as
33:14
Speaker 7: possible and put the milkers in overnight just try and
33:18
Speaker 7: keep ground conditions good. You know, I thought, are we
33:22
Speaker 7: calving too early? But I guess it's one of those
33:25
Speaker 7: things of we move calving back. I don't think it's
33:29
Speaker 7: going to be enough. I think we'd be calving right
33:31
Speaker 7: in the middle of it. You really need to move
33:33
Speaker 7: way back and then, you know, you don't suit the
33:37
Speaker 7: cycle of the milk tanker and the bobby calf truck
33:40
Speaker 7: and all that sort of, you know, every milker, every
33:43
Speaker 7: farmer has to move back.
33:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, interesting times, Janine. Hey, thanks for catching up this afternoon,
33:48
Speaker 1: and enjoy the afternoon down there at our beautiful Awarua.
33:52
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, it's lovely and sunny today, so I've certainly
33:54
Speaker 7: been enjoying it.
33:58
Speaker 1: Janine Easton, based down at Awarua, but talking about bioactive soils.
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Speaker 1: Steve Ellison and co. Up next, Richard Bull, talking Nightcaps
34:06
Speaker 1: Young Farmers. This is the muster. Welcome back to the muster.
34:19
Speaker 1: Richard Bell of Nightcaps Young Farmers joins us in our
34:22
Speaker 1: Young Farmers chat for a Tuesday. G'day Richard, how's things?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, good thanks Andy, how are you getting on?
34:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty good. Now you're based on a block not
34:30
Speaker 1: far out of Lake Hiroko, how have things been? Yeah, good, good.
34:34
Speaker 6: We've sort of had a bit of a wet start
34:36
Speaker 6: coming out of the winter, but it's definitely turned around now.
34:40
Speaker 6: The sun's out today, we'll be growing a bit of
34:42
Speaker 6: grass I'd say.
34:43
Speaker 1: Give people a bit of an understanding of the farming
34:45
Speaker 1: operation there Richard, what are you doing?
34:48
Speaker 6: Yeah, so we're just on a dairy support block.
34:53
Speaker 8: Down here. We're changing it up a little bit this
34:55
Speaker 8: year coming.
34:56
Speaker 6: We're sort of only taking half the number of dairy
34:59
Speaker 6: calves we normally take in December and just getting into
35:02
Speaker 6: a little bit of our own beef this year. So
35:04
Speaker 6: we've just been buying up some store cattle the last
35:07
Speaker 6: couple of months.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, we'll sort of.
35:08
Speaker 8: Be split 50-50 between that. dairy grazing for others and
35:12
Speaker 8: doing a bit of our own beef there, yeah.
35:14
Speaker 1: It's a great time to be involved with beef, albeit
35:17
Speaker 1: a wee bit pricey at times, but it's looking pretty
35:19
Speaker 1: good for the industry on a whole.
35:21
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, no, it's looking quite rosy at the moment,
35:24
Speaker 6: so yeah, long let that continue.
35:26
Speaker 1: You were saying before as well, you've only moved down
35:29
Speaker 1: to the South Island in the last year or so,
35:31
Speaker 1: you're from up the Manawatu.
35:33
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, no, I grew up just out of Palmerston North,
35:37
Speaker 6: went to school up there, and I Yeah, I only
35:40
Speaker 6: moved down south about a year ago. So, yeah, she's
35:44
Speaker 6: all new to me down here, but not loving the change.
35:47
Speaker 8: It's, yeah, a good part of the country down.
35:49
Speaker 2: Here, isn't it?
35:50
Speaker 1: Apart from the climate, we'll leave that to the side,
35:53
Speaker 1: what are the biggest changes between the regions that you've noticed?
35:57
Speaker 8: Oh, it's quite a good.
35:58
Speaker 6: I think coming down here, it's quite a good sort
36:03
Speaker 6: of community feel down here, I think.
36:05
Speaker 8: Sort of small community rallies together and.
36:09
Speaker 6: Had some pretty cool stuff going on, local squash and
36:12
Speaker 6: rugby club and young farmers and bits like that.
36:15
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think the small community feels.
36:17
Speaker 2: Awesome, eh?
36:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks a way our rugby team won Richard
36:21
Speaker 1: Templeton as your coach. G'day, Hoff, if you're listening. You're
36:24
Speaker 1: involved with Nightcaps Young Farmers. Were you involved with Young
36:27
Speaker 1: Farmers before you come down south?
36:29
Speaker 8: No, I hadn't been involved with Young Farmers up in
36:32
Speaker 8: the North Island.
36:32
Speaker 6: I sort of joined up with them when I came
36:34
Speaker 6: down here just to get out of it and meet
36:37
Speaker 6: a few new people, yeah.
36:38
Speaker 1: Obviously, you're enjoying it. You're still there?
36:41
Speaker 8: Yeah, love it.
36:42
Speaker 6: It's a good crew down at Nightcaps. And, yeah, we
36:46
Speaker 6: sort of get quite a good turnout down there. We
36:49
Speaker 6: meet up at the Winton.
36:51
Speaker 8: Top Pub the first Wednesday of every month. And, yeah,
36:54
Speaker 8: we get quite a good turnout. And it's a great
36:58
Speaker 8: group of people down there.
36:59
Speaker 6: And, yeah, if anyone's on the fence out there thinking
37:01
Speaker 6: about coming down, I'd definitely recommend it.
37:03
Speaker 8: Give it a go, yeah.
37:05
Speaker 1: Does that seem to be the consensus of the younger
37:08
Speaker 1: farming generation these days? If you want to get involved
37:10
Speaker 1: and meet people, then the Young Farmers is the avenue
37:13
Speaker 1: to do it?
37:14
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'd say so.
37:17
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a great way to just get out there
37:19
Speaker 6: and meet people if you're, yeah, sort of ticking away
37:23
Speaker 6: on farm and think you need to get off a
37:25
Speaker 6: bit and see a few other people and just catch
37:27
Speaker 6: up for a beer and a yarn and see what's
37:29
Speaker 6: been going on. It's just quite good every now and
37:32
Speaker 6: then to get off and.
37:35
Speaker 6: See people outside of the farm and just get off
37:39
Speaker 6: and just catch up for a bit of a beer
37:41
Speaker 6: and see what's been going on. Yeah, so enjoy that.
37:46
Speaker 6: We've got quite a few events coming up, organised. We've
37:51
Speaker 6: got a Halloween bus trip on the 31st of this month,
37:56
Speaker 6: which we've got some tickets on our Instagram page if
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Speaker 6: anyone out there is keen to join. I think we've
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Speaker 6: got about 10 tickets left, so Got a bit of
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Speaker 6: a pub crawl going on at the end of the month.
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Speaker 8: Should be quite good.
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Speaker 1: Whereabouts is it going? Or is it a mystery trip?
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Speaker 6: Oh, I think it started off as a mystery trip,
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Speaker 6: but we're not so much a mystery anymore. We're going
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Speaker 6: to meet at the Winton Top Pub at 6pm on
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Speaker 6: the 31st, and I think we're going Drummond, Taurau, and
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Speaker 6: the Cargill, and then back to Winton about midnight, I think.
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Speaker 1: Nothing wrong with that, mate. Now, as far as fundraising efforts,
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Speaker 1: anything on the horizon, or has that been and gone?
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Speaker 6: Fundraising on the horizon what have we got coming up
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Speaker 6: I think we've got some wood splitting to do in
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Speaker 6: the next couple of months can't think of anything else
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Speaker 6: off the top of my head but I'm sure we'll
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Speaker 6: have a few other fundraising events pop up in the
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Speaker 6: next little while as the weather gets better if we
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Speaker 6: get out and do some things.
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Speaker 1: Another events podcast as you get closer towards Christmas getting
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Speaker 1: together with Thornberry or Tiana or anybody having a shindig
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Speaker 1: what's on the horizon you reckon?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, we've got Districts competition for the Young Farmers competition
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Speaker 6: coming up.
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Speaker 8: I think that's on the 21st of next month.
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Speaker 6: So yeah, got that.
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Speaker 1: That's at Riverton, isn't it?
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Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, Riverton I think it is, yeah, for Districts.
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Speaker 6: So yeah, got that next month and then come December
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Speaker 6: I think we're booked in to go to the races
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Speaker 6: in Invercargill.
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Speaker 8: So yeah, it'll be another good day out there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, fair enough, mate. So you guys, what's again, if
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Speaker 1: you want to know about Nightcaps Young Farmers, go onto
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Speaker 1: your social channels, and the meeting is the first Wednesday
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Speaker 1: of the month at the Top Pub. Is that right?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's correct. Yeah, at the Top Pub in Blinton,
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Speaker 8: first Wednesday of every month.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Hey, good on you, Richard. Enjoy the afternoon in Lake Heroko.
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Speaker 1: Great to chat.
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Speaker 4: Awesome.
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Speaker 8: Cheers, Andy. Have a good one.
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Speaker 4: On the line.
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Speaker 1: Fresh from watching half marathons across the ditch. G'day Slammer.
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Speaker 1: No half marathons in Invercargill today but some hot prices hopefully?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, hot prices today in there. No, no half
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Speaker 3: marathons for me today and I was definitely just watching
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Speaker 3: it to be fair.
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Speaker 1: I'll take your word for it.
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Speaker 3: It's quite enjoyable watching other people go through pain and suffering.
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Speaker 3: of running around streets.
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Speaker 1: Fair cop, mate. How did we go?
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Speaker 3: Those lambs today, the best of those were $ 450. The
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Speaker 3: medium's $ 300 and the lighter end, $ 200. So there you go.
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Speaker 3: There's a range.
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Speaker 2: There of $ 250 between.
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Speaker 3: the light and the heavies. The ewes, the best of
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Speaker 3: those are $ 3. 20, mediums $ 2. 50 and the lighter end $ 1.
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Speaker 1: 80.
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Speaker 3: And the shorn ewes, $ 3. 60 on those and $ 2. 80 on
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Speaker 3: the mediums of those as well. Local trade rams, the
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Speaker 3: best of those are $ 160. The handful of ewes and
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Speaker 3: lambs all counted, they range from $ 1.
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Speaker 8: 50 to $ 1.
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Speaker 5: 70.
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Speaker 2: Into the.
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Speaker 3: Prime cattle, very small yarding of prime cattle, 700 kilo
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Speaker 3: bull at $ 4.
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Speaker 2: 70, and some.
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Speaker 3: Beef heifers at 580 kgs, they were $ 5.
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Speaker 2: 20.
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Speaker 3: And of the store cattle, just a very small yarding
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Speaker 3: of store cattle as well, two-year-old beef cross heifers at
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Speaker 3: 428 kilos, $ 2, 220, and some yearling heifer bulls at 241
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Speaker 3: kgs at $ 1, 200. Not a lot in the section at
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Speaker 3: all at Longville, but prices are still holding up. So
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Speaker 3: that wraps up Longville. We do have a cattle sale
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Speaker 3: tomorrow at Charlton. So their first spring cattle sale there.
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Speaker 3: There's about 450 two-year-old and yearling cattle coming through to that.
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Speaker 2: So it's a little company.
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Speaker 3: That starts at 10.30 tomorrow. So anyone looking for cattle
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Speaker 3: out Galway, come to Charlton tomorrow. That wraps it up, mate.