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

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  Speaker 1: Claire Teutemberg of Beef and Lamb New.
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  Speaker 2: Zealand joins us, Southern Extension Manager. G'day Claire, how are
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  Speaker 2: you today?
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  Speaker 3: Hi Andy, good thanks. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Pretty good. It's a nice spell of weather, which is
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  Speaker 2: being appreciated, even getting into the 20s.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's an absolute cracker today. Really, really enjoying it. So, No,
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  Speaker 3: we're lucky. We'll take it while we can.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. It's been pretty busy with Beef and
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  Speaker 2: Lamb recently, though. A couple of seminars and webinars. All
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  Speaker 2: the nars are covered.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, the event calendar is certainly heating up and definitely
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  Speaker 3: part of it is bringing in different delivery methods and
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  Speaker 3: one of them being a webinar. And for us, well, nationwide,
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  Speaker 3: we've got a ram buying webinar next week. So that's
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  Speaker 3: focusing on being able to make informed decisions when you're
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  Speaker 3: selecting both your breeder and your ram size.
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  Speaker 2: Looks of a ram buying seminar. How long does it
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  Speaker 2: go on for realistically? What can people expect? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: with all due respect.
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  Speaker 3: So it goes for an hour. So what we're looking
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  Speaker 3: at is it's really breaking down what does the data
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  Speaker 3: mean because there's a huge amount of data out there.
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  Speaker 3: There's also a massive option or huge number of options
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  Speaker 3: that you have when selecting your breeder. And so what
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  Speaker 3: we want to ensure is that when our farmers are
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  Speaker 3: looking at data, one, they know what they're looking at
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  Speaker 3: and how to break it down. And then secondly, how
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  Speaker 3: they can actually apply that to their own farming business.
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  Speaker 3: So we looked right back into ensuring that you understand
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  Speaker 3: what your breeding objectives are, because everyone should actually understand that.
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  Speaker 3: what rams they're getting, but why they're getting them. So
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  Speaker 3: if they see opportunity in growth, if they see opportunity
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  Speaker 3: in increasing production, our part to play there is ensuring
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  Speaker 3: that they know how to do that. So it's really applicable, practical,
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  Speaker 3: and we hope that people go along being able to
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  Speaker 3: use the tools that they've learned on the webinar. It's
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  Speaker 3: also looking at a couple of tools that Beef and
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  Speaker 3: Lamb have, which is Improve, which is the data platform.
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  Speaker 3: and the other one being improved tracker, which is a
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  Speaker 3: tool that's just been released or developed for our commercial
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  Speaker 3: farmers to actually understand what their genetic progress is in
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  Speaker 3: their commercial flock. So it's all great stuff.
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  Speaker 2: When you walk into the supermarket at the moment, it's
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  Speaker 2: disturbing the amount of Christmas stuff that's in there already,
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  Speaker 2: but one thing about Christmas is the sampler box, all
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  Speaker 2: the different biscuits. And I suppose a correlation, Claire, is
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  Speaker 2: when you're going for a ram, looking for that pick
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  Speaker 2: and mix that is going to work for your operation.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. And, I mean, marketing, don't be fooled
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  Speaker 3: by marketing. And that's what we probably always say is
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  Speaker 3: don't be fooled by marketing. Look at actually what's on offer.
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  Speaker 3: Break that down and really pinpoint breeders that are forward-thinking,
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  Speaker 3: that are utilizing the technology that's available. Because the important
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  Speaker 3: thing is that the genetics that you're purchasing are actually proven.
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  Speaker 3: and breeders have every capability of being able to do that.
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  Speaker 3: So it is. There's a huge number of selections out
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  Speaker 3: there with breed, but when it comes down to it, really,
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  Speaker 3: it's just understanding exactly what you're trying to achieve from
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  Speaker 3: your purchase.
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  Speaker 2: The virtual day is coming up next week too. It
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  Speaker 2: looks as though a lot of people are keen on this.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about this last week on the show and
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  Speaker 2: certainly looks at technology to the fore.
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  Speaker 3: It is. It's a really exciting day over at West
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  Speaker 3: Range Station and we've got huge support from Gallagher PGG
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  Speaker 3: Wrightsons as well as obviously the Chamberlain family. This is
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  Speaker 3: an awesome day and I really do encourage anyone that
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  Speaker 3: has or is looking at implementing virtual fencing into a
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  Speaker 3: beef system to come along and have a look. We're
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  Speaker 3: going to be breaking it right down from supplier, you know,
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  Speaker 3: how do you choose what's best for your business and
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  Speaker 3: looking at the ways in which you can increase efficiencies
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  Speaker 3: on your farm in terms of your labour and pasture
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  Speaker 3: management and then also really breaking it down into understanding what,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the finance side of it, the profitability of
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  Speaker 3: it because ultimately at the end of the day when
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  Speaker 3: you're investing in things there needs to be a return
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  Speaker 3: on it. So we'll be diving into the figures as well.
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  Speaker 3: The day includes a really hefty part of a farm
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  Speaker 3: tour around West Crone Station. So the idea is that
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  Speaker 3: we go out and actually see the animals, see what's
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  Speaker 3: happening on farm, see pasture, and get some really robust
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  Speaker 3: discussions in place.
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  Speaker 2: And the other thing coming up is drenching for a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people. We talked about it with Pete Gardine previously,
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  Speaker 2: but this all relates back to the parasite workshop. You
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  Speaker 2: can't get enough of these at the moment. Trying to
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  Speaker 2: sort out a decent drenching programme.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a.
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  Speaker 3: Looming, I call it a looming thing to tackle. It
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  Speaker 3: happens every year and the best thing you can do
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  Speaker 3: is actually be prepared for it. So we have a
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  Speaker 3: workshop on the 24th over at the Mossburn Rugby Club.
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  Speaker 3: It's focusing on young stocks. Obviously that's where it all starts,
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  Speaker 3: getting that drenching, a really effective drench programme in place.
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  Speaker 3: The most important thing is that we want farmers to
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  Speaker 3: understand when to actually start pulling that trigger on the gun,
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  Speaker 3: you know, knowing when that trigger point is and then
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  Speaker 3: how to actually manage the drenching intervals. And so there's
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  Speaker 3: a huge number of practical takeaways from the workshop there.
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  Speaker 3: So they'll be focusing on both lambs and calves because
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  Speaker 3: we do want to keep putting emphasis on the integration
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  Speaker 3: of different species to manage parasites.
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  Speaker 2: So all of these will be on the Beef and
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  Speaker 2: Lamb website, I imagine, Claire, or in the e-diary?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, both, Andy. As with every week, it'll come out
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  Speaker 3: tomorrow morning with all of the information on there, and
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  Speaker 3: also included if there's farmers out there interested. We've also
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  Speaker 3: got on the events page the four farmers events, which
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  Speaker 3: is the surfing and the rural riders. So really encourage
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  Speaker 3: people to make time to belong to one of those.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. There's some really cool stuff going on there, Claire.
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  Speaker 2: Always good to catch up. You enjoy the afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: Fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Andy. Claire Tudenberg of Beef and Lamb New Zealand.
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  Speaker 2: Talking about supermarkets, if you enjoy Christmas music, good news,
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  Speaker 2: they've started playing it already. Brenton Howden's up next.
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