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The Muster Full Show: 14/10/26 · The Muster on Hokonui

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon and welcome to the muster on Hokonui. Andy
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  Speaker 1: Mewi here. The show is brought to you by Petersonetics.
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  Speaker 1: And it's hump day and it's overcast. Looking out over
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  Speaker 1: the main street of Gore.
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  Speaker 2: We're currently at 13 degrees. Opened the window before.
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  Speaker 1: It looks warm out there but a little bit deceiving.
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  Speaker 1: There's a correction in the weather happening tomorrow. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about that shortly. But it is looking better into next
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  Speaker 1: week again. So, yeah, get that grass growing. Same old story, right?
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  Speaker 1: Straight into it.
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  Speaker 2: Music today. Paul McCartney, the great Paul McCartney. And wings.
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  Speaker 2: This afternoon, it is rain with.
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  Speaker 1: Breezy South Westerlies and a high of 14, so that's
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  Speaker 1: due to move in a bit later on.
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  Speaker 2: Thursday, it is cold. Well, it's cooler.
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  Speaker 1: Rain with breezy South Westerlies, 3 and 9. Friday, a
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  Speaker 1: little bit better. Cloudy with South Westerlies, 3 and 10. Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: partly cloudy with Westerlies, 3 and 14. And on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: sunshine with Westerlies, 6 and 17. So towards the end
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  Speaker 1: of the weekend, we are getting a correction. So temperatures,
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  Speaker 1: Clinton 11.2, Harriot 11.5, Northern Southland 12.5, Riverton 12.7, Te
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  Speaker 1: Anau 11.7, Titiroa 13, Winton 12.1 and Woodlands 11.6. Simon
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  Speaker 1: Quilty of Global Agritrends gets us underway this afternoon on
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  Speaker 1: the muster. Now a lot of people have heard Simon speak.
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  Speaker 1: He's been on the muster before and he's almost like
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  Speaker 1: the guru of red meat pricing and forecasting what's ahead
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  Speaker 1: for the season. So he gives us an understanding of
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  Speaker 1: what to predict for red meat prices for the next
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  Speaker 1: six months or so.
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  Speaker 2: James Edgar of Moa Flat.
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  Speaker 1: Last time we spoke to James, it was hovercraft season
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  Speaker 1: in September, but he just wants to go on and
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  Speaker 1: talk about and elaborate about how the season's changed, and
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  Speaker 1: September's been in the rearview mirror now. Julie Edwards of
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  Speaker 1: Shewell UK. We catch up for our regular chinwag. Nicola
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  Speaker 1: Blair of Derry NZ is on the show, and our
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  Speaker 1: resident sporting guru Nathan Burden, the MPC semi-finals, remembering Northland
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  Speaker 1: against Otago, and Tara Nackey is going to Christchurch to
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  Speaker 1: play Canterbury.
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  Speaker 2: So we look at.
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  Speaker 1: That, getting towards the pointy end of the season. Team
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  Speaker 1: Northland here just saying. Mark Calder of PGG writes in,
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  Speaker 1: gives a rundown on the Barclay for Stock Sale report,
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  Speaker 1: and as.
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  Speaker 2: Well as shout out Andrew Taylor at Wyndham.
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  Speaker 1: He came in this morning, he won a prize from Chitty,
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  Speaker 1: a book about stations, I think, and talked to Andrew
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  Speaker 1: for a moment. Good to have you listening in, mate.
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  Speaker 1: Hope that hog at Lambie's going well this afternoon. Right,
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  Speaker 1: straight on to it next with Simon Quilty.
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  Speaker 2: Band on the run.
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  Speaker 3: Band on the.
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  Speaker 1: Run Simon Quilty of Global Ag Trends gets us underway
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  Speaker 1: this afternoon on the muster. A few of you were
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  Speaker 1: up at the Beef and Lamb Out the Gate conference recently.
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  Speaker 1: Simon spoke there. We've spoken to him previously on the show,
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  Speaker 1: just trying to get an indication of what the red
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  Speaker 1: meat pricing is going to do for the season.
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  Speaker 2: Simon, good afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of buoyancy around pricing in the red meat
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  Speaker 1: sector at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: What's your take?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Andy, I think the momentum continues from when we
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  Speaker 4: caught up earlier in this year, March, April, but also
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  Speaker 4: when I was in New Zealand the week before last
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  Speaker 4: and the message is that this continues. If I was
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  Speaker 4: to best describe where we're heading on lamb, the word
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  Speaker 4: rinse or the words rinse and repeat, Andy, is what
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  Speaker 4: I like to say. is that next year is going
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  Speaker 4: to be very, very similar to this year in terms
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  Speaker 4: of how buoyant prices are.
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  Speaker 1: Is this due to the global situation and people wanting
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  Speaker 1: red meat?
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  Speaker 4: I think it's a combination of supply and demand that
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  Speaker 4: supply out of Australia, Andy, next year is going to
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  Speaker 4: be very, very tight. I see the lamb kill going
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  Speaker 4: below $ 20 million for the first time in probably a
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  Speaker 4: decade or more. And also, you know, there's no real
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  Speaker 4: signs of rebuild within New Zealand. You know, your breeding
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  Speaker 4: new numbers are down 1.9%. The mutton kill is down
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  Speaker 4: a fraction of 0.8% for the season. But overall, there's
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  Speaker 4: no clear message that numbers are building. And with tight
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  Speaker 4: Australian suppliers, tight New Zealand suppliers, it points to higher
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  Speaker 4: prices with good demand.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Simon, based on that, what can we expect for
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  Speaker 1: a kilo of lamb this season?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think, Andy, the highs at $ 12. 50 may have
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  Speaker 4: come in, but I've got the trading range going between
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  Speaker 4: really $ 10. 90 to $ 11 to $ 12.
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  Speaker 5: 50.
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  Speaker 4: The thing I'm watching closely, Andy.
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  Speaker 4: Is the findings that are to be handed down in
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  Speaker 4: November on this inquiry into tariffs on lamb in North America.
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  Speaker 4: So they're looking at whether damage has been done to
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  Speaker 4: the US domestic industry. This has been done by the USTR,
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  Speaker 4: which is the US trade representative, and they've put together
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  Speaker 4: a recommendation to the U.S. International Trade Commission. If that's
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  Speaker 4: not a mouthful, I don't know what is. And Andy,
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  Speaker 4: those findings, they're doing a study at the moment. They're
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  Speaker 4: getting interested parties to give testimony to that to prove
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  Speaker 4: whether there's been serious injury or not to the U.S.
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  Speaker 4: domestic lamb industry over the last two to three years. Andy,
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  Speaker 4: the clear answer is no. Imported has not damaged it.
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  Speaker 4: But in this current environment under the Trump administration, you
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  Speaker 4: and I can't guarantee anything. So they are pushing hard,
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  Speaker 4: the American Sheep Industry Association and ARCAF, for a 30% tariff.
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  Speaker 4: So we'll find out in a month's time whether that
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  Speaker 4: comes to fruition or I hope not. If it does,
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  Speaker 4: it may dampen some of the pricing we're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Will we be able to absorb this tariff from the US?
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  Speaker 4: So here's my experience of these type of things in
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  Speaker 4: the past. And Andy, I'm a meat trader of 35 years. So,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's probably based on experience that I speak here.
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  Speaker 4: But what happens normally is that when supply is tight...
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  Speaker 4: as it is, we tend to be able to pass
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  Speaker 4: these costs forward to the importer and consumer in America.
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  Speaker 4: But once numbers start to appear in Australia and New Zealand,
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  Speaker 4: these costs get passed back. And so the producer eventually
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  Speaker 4: wears it. So I think in 2027, the numbers will
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  Speaker 4: still be tight. I'm probably concerned about 2028, 29, when
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  Speaker 4: the numbers start to eventually pick up in supply from
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  Speaker 4: both countries. And that's when, if this tariff is in place,
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  Speaker 4: it starts to have an impact on pricing.
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  Speaker 2: Let's look at cattle.
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  Speaker 1: Now, over in the US at the moment, the screwworm
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  Speaker 1: situation is occurring in Texas. Tariff-free quotas have been introduced
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  Speaker 1: by President Trump. How is this going to affect New
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  Speaker 1: Zealand beef?
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  Speaker 4: Sure, so let's start with the New World Screwworm. So
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  Speaker 4: the border has been opened between Mexico and the US
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  Speaker 4: at Douglas, is the port of entry, and it's pretty small.
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  Speaker 4: They've got one, you might say, port open. The amount
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  Speaker 4: coming through is about 0.3% of production influencing in America.
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  Speaker 4: When the borders are normally open, Mexico supplies about 5%
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  Speaker 4: of U.S. production overall. Best case scenario that some of
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  Speaker 4: the borders open this year and next, it's about 2%
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  Speaker 4: we're estimating at global agri-trends. Andy, I'm not worried about 2%.
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  Speaker 4: I think that it's very manageable and the influence on
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  Speaker 4: pricing for imported beef will be minimal. So on the
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  Speaker 4: screwworm front, I think the concern about the given access
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  Speaker 4: of 300,000 tons by President Trump for a 90-day window
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  Speaker 4: is probably.
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  Speaker 5: A bigger deal.
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  Speaker 4: So just for what it's worth, let's reiterate, this was
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  Speaker 4: put in place in August in which Donald Trump announced
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  Speaker 4: 300,000 tons of of out-of-quota tariff would be enabled to
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  Speaker 4: come in. So that would be for September, October, November.
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  Speaker 4: In his wording, Andy, if I could just repeat it,
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  Speaker 4: this beef will be sold at 25% below current prices.
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  Speaker 4: This deal will reduce prices for Americans while giving space
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  Speaker 4: for our great American beef herd to grow again. So, Andy,
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  Speaker 4: on so many levels, this is wrong. It will not
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  Speaker 4: enable the beef herd to grow. This actually saw prices
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  Speaker 4: for both cattle and boxed beef in America fall dramatically.
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  Speaker 4: not enough to the 25%, but if you're going to
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  Speaker 4: grow that herd again in America, Andy, you need higher
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  Speaker 4: cattle prices, not lower cattle prices. And the ability to
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  Speaker 4: measure that this will be 25% below market current market
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  Speaker 4: price as well. That just, that just doesn't exist. The
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  Speaker 4: ability to do that. So Andy, I think that the
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  Speaker 4: president introduced this, um, as a knee-jerk reaction. I don't
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  Speaker 4: think it works. But for what's going to happen is
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  Speaker 4: during that three-month period, there will be an increase of
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  Speaker 4: Brazilian beef because they're the only ones that had the
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  Speaker 4: ability to respond to this. Paraguay, to a lesser extent.
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  Speaker 4: But our estimates are that we'll probably see an additional
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  Speaker 4: 130,000 tonnes of come into America from Brazil over that
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  Speaker 4: three-month window. So that has lowered imported prices, but not
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  Speaker 4: by 25%, nowhere near it. And we've now seen those
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  Speaker 4: prices stabilize, and I'm expecting that we'll start to see
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  Speaker 4: prices actually improve moving forward. So, Andy, there is a concern.
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  Speaker 4: I think the worst is over. I think that it's
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  Speaker 4: a short-term fix. I think there'll be some pushback, particularly
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  Speaker 4: if the mid-term November elections don't go Donald Trump's way.
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  Speaker 2: So where do you see the price of beef in
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand going to?
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  Speaker 4: Andy, I like where it's heading. And to be honest,
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  Speaker 4: I see steer prices moving higher. So if we go
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  Speaker 4: back to our forecast... that we started our chat on,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I was at 9.50 and my forecast had
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  Speaker 4: for the middle of next year to go to 10.50. Andy,
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  Speaker 4: I think New Zealand will do that. So I see
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  Speaker 4: prices peaking in May, June next year at about 10.50
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  Speaker 4: in New Zealand. That, I think, will be the high.
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  Speaker 4: Over the next few years, we start to pull back
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  Speaker 4: from there. Nothing too dramatic. But, Andy, no, there's still,
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  Speaker 4: I think, a little bit more upside to be had
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  Speaker 4: in this market.
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  Speaker 1: Good on you, Simon. Thanks for your time. And interesting,
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  Speaker 1: as always, you enjoy the afternoon over there.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, Andy.
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  Speaker 5: You too.
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  Speaker 1: Simon Quilty of Global Agritrends. Good news story there too,
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  Speaker 1: especially regarding beef. Going over $ 10. So we'll await and
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  Speaker 1: see how this all pans out. Always good to catch
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  Speaker 1: up with Simon. James Edgar's up next. We'll get a
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  Speaker 1: bit of reaction to this. You're listening to The Muster.
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  Speaker 2: James Edgar is based in Mower Flat and joins us.
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  Speaker 2: Good afternoon. Last time we spoke to.
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  Speaker 1: You, you were, well, you had a hovercraft to get
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  Speaker 1: around pretty much. A lot of people were saying that
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  Speaker 1: the situation has corrected itself given a seven or eight
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  Speaker 1: day grace of fine weather.
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  Speaker 2: What are you saying?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, no, we are in a completely different situation. It's
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  Speaker 6: To quote the Justin Marshall, we'll go south on there
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  Speaker 6: as the grass has gone boomfah. It's seriously taken off.
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  Speaker 6: It's fantastic. Yeah, no, we're looking real good. And just
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  Speaker 6: white clover, just a whole mat of it.
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  Speaker 5: It's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 6: Pasture quality, I don't know what the ME is, but
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  Speaker 6: it can't get any higher. It's just electric green up here. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: it's just seriously changed. And yeah, to be fair, a
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  Speaker 6: wee bit of rain in the next couple of days
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  Speaker 6: and then being hot again, like, yeah, we're seriously going
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  Speaker 6: to sit up here for a season. So, yeah, fingers crossed. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I'm just going to forget about the six weeks before that.
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  Speaker 6: I think, Andy, I'm just going to take it out
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  Speaker 6: of my mind and, you know, just have amnesia about it,
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  Speaker 6: I think.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations for bringing bumfart into the muster vocabulary.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, it's still a fantastic word, though, isn't it? One
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  Speaker 6: of my other favourite ones is buffhead. I think buffhead
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  Speaker 6: is a very descriptive term for... certain animals or maybe
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  Speaker 6: people at certain times, Andy, without going into too much
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  Speaker 6: detail on boofhead.
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  Speaker 1: Well, boofhead Romney was a thing not that many years ago.
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  Speaker 1: You had to eye-wig them when you were crutching.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, no, there's no boofhead Romneys on my place, Andy. No,
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  Speaker 6: we like the Perindales. I like a bit more speed
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  Speaker 6: than that, which comes with its pluses and minuses, I
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  Speaker 6: might add.
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  Speaker 1: OK, so you've got through lambing. When you look back,
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  Speaker 1: how did the situation end up for you, I suppose?
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  Speaker 6: It's going to be hard to know until we tail.
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  Speaker 6: It actually looks not too bad. Well, yeah, it's not
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  Speaker 6: going to be any worse than the last two years
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  Speaker 6: because it's sort of been a bit of a battle.
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  Speaker 6: I think it could be slightly better, but it's hard
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  Speaker 6: to know. We're a bit the same down in Tapanui.
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  Speaker 6: We would have had a lot of wet dries, but
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  Speaker 6: just through sheer hard work and mothering on, we still
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  Speaker 6: had too many wet dries. But I wouldn't have liked
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  Speaker 6: to have seen that if we didn't mother on, we
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  Speaker 6: would have had a lot.
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  Speaker 5: And then, yeah, we.
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  Speaker 6: Sort of had enough grass. I don't know, we've managed
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  Speaker 6: to get through the skin of our teeth, Andy, one
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  Speaker 6: way or another. To be fair, we had been slightly
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  Speaker 6: changing our farming system for the last two years because
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  Speaker 6: I was getting sick of those springs. And I sort
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  Speaker 6: of thought to myself in the back of my mind,
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  Speaker 6: at some stage we're going to end up with a
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  Speaker 6: heap of grass. But, yeah, not this year anyway, but
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  Speaker 6: we'll see. So, no, reasonably pleased around the place, I think.
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  Speaker 6: the lambs are definitely going to do quite well from now.
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  Speaker 6: There's nice, as I say, the pasture quality is really good.
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  Speaker 2: When are you tailing?
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  Speaker 6: We've tailed some down in Tapanui, and yeah, we're just looking,
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  Speaker 6: oh no, we're still probably a good 10 days away
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  Speaker 6: up at Marflat. We sort of tail, you don't tail
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  Speaker 6: to the oldest lambs, you've got to tail to the
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  Speaker 6: youngest ones. You just don't want those few wee jiggers
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  Speaker 6: that you get going into the tailing pen too small,
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  Speaker 6: but we've changed how we tail too, which probably slowed
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  Speaker 6: down and then so now with those great big lambs
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  Speaker 6: that get old and they'll you know they're all wrinkly
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  Speaker 6: and look a million dollars we're only um jabbing and
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  Speaker 6: so we give them a five and one and we've
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  Speaker 6: given them a scratch in the ear mark up here
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  Speaker 6: but we're not even tailing them we're just leaving the
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  Speaker 6: tail and the balls on and then we uh the
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  Speaker 6: medium lambs have just been um flipping them and then
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  Speaker 6: you know tailing them obviously and giving them five and
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  Speaker 6: one and stuff And then all the smaller lambs and
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  Speaker 6: triplets or, you know, things that just aren't doing quite
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  Speaker 6: so well have been weathering. So it takes a bit
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  Speaker 6: more time on the tailing shoot. But last lamb fattening season,
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  Speaker 6: that was a bit of a game changer because we
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  Speaker 6: sort of got through to February and we just didn't
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  Speaker 6: have very many crips left. We had a lot of weathers.
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  Speaker 6: And to be fair, we were still sending them to
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  Speaker 6: the works. And the way through, they were just fat
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  Speaker 6: little buggers and.
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  Speaker 6: But as soon as we got into April and stuff,
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  Speaker 6: we just didn't have all those crypt lambs running around. Like,
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  Speaker 6: you still have a handful, but a handful's a lot
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  Speaker 6: easier to handle than, you know, having thousands of them. So, no,
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  Speaker 6: that's worked really well. So that's how we now tail. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: as I say, it takes longer at tailing time and
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  Speaker 6: it's a bit more work. But we've just found for
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  Speaker 6: the whole rest of the lamb fattening season, it just
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  Speaker 6: makes things so much easier.
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  Speaker 2: So you're leaving the tails on?
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  Speaker 6: Some of the big ones, yeah, especially... Oh, just.
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  Speaker 2: The bigger ones. I thought you were talking generically that
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  Speaker 2: everything had the tails on.
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  Speaker 6: No, no. Well, you always get those big ones, you know,
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  Speaker 6: that are one of the... Oh, you do, yeah. Or
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  Speaker 6: a few, especially on the Tapanui farm down that good country, because, like,
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  Speaker 6: we'll start, you know, some of those will get a
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  Speaker 6: draft right at the start of December, end of November. So,
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  Speaker 6: you know, they don't cause you any trouble. I don't
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  Speaker 6: know if it's better or worse, but it makes me
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  Speaker 6: feel better when they've still got their stuff and we just...
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  Speaker 6: give them their five and one in their scratch and
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  Speaker 6: then let them go. Yeah, and they're doing really well,
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  Speaker 6: which is good.
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  Speaker 2: The staff will be relieved that September's finished?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yep, yep. We're about halfway through our hoggart lambing,
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  Speaker 6: so I think that's always one of the jobs you
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  Speaker 6: really like to see the end of.
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  Speaker 5: It's very rewarding and the.
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  Speaker 6: Hoggart's looking good, but there's always more work than you
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  Speaker 6: think in hoggart lambing from what I've seen, but... We
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  Speaker 6: did change our ram breed this year along the lines
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  Speaker 6: of the Hoggart 150 group and used some Dorpers. And
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  Speaker 6: my gut feeling early doors is that's made a difference.
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  Speaker 6: So I have been reasonably impressed with them. They're very
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  Speaker 6: small coming out. They're very light in the bone. Probably
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  Speaker 6: not the sort of animals you'd want to breed without
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  Speaker 6: offending anyone. But yeah, I think for Hoggart lambing, they
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: look like they're definitely going to be a bit of
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: a game changer.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Simon Quilty was on the show previously talking about prices
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: for this season, trading lamb going between $ 10. 90 and $ 12. 50,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: but the steer price in the beef side of life
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: going up to around $ 10. 50 next May and June. So
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: the prices touch wood, and Simon's normally on the button
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: and looking pretty good.
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah, no, it's fantastic, isn't it, Andy? It's a real
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: joy for our industry having that positivity out there. One
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: of the great things when you're, you know, being profitable
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: again after, you know, we had four times as well noted,
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: but you can just reinvest in your farm. And I
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: know I just talked to the sheep and beef boys
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: at the moment, but we're all very proud of our
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: farms and it's really good for the environment because it
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: means we can keep fencing bits off and we can keep...
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: upgrading our genetics and it just goes right the way through.
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: We can spin through the saw mills, we can spin
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: through the bike shops and the tractor outfits and it
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: just makes the business a lot more enjoyable and I
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: think it's a lot better for the country and a
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: lot better for the environment and there's really no losers
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: in the whole thing. It's genuinely exciting to see and
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: from a country point of view I'm strong and we
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: need a diversity of things we sell to the rest
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: of the world. We can't just be your one trick
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: pony and, you know, sell forestry, you know, logs and,
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: and basically, um, dairy farming, you know, milk products to
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: the rest of the world.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: We really need, you know, sheep and beef.
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: We need deer and we need those other things as well.
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: You know, Kiwi fruit and all of the above. So no,
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: it's just fantastic to, fantastic to be a sheep farmer
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: at the moment, actually, Andy, which is a great, great
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: joy for the guys that hung in there and stayed,
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: stayed with it. You know, we've, saw all the land
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: use change. We saw how many trees were planted and
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: there's still a lot of land going out into dairy
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: support and all of the other things. But yeah, it's
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: really nice to see us competing and pushing those other
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: industries to keep getting better as well. You know, it's
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: just a really exciting time to be a sheep and
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: beef farmer.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Good news all around, James. Thanks for your time.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: Cheers, Andy.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: James Edgar of Moa Flat. You're listening to The Muster.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: We're away overseas next for the second time today. Julie
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Edwards of Shewell UK.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: She's up next.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Muster as we head over to
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: the UK. Catch up with Julie Edwards of Sharewell UK.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Now we catch up with Ella McCleary, monthly here on
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: the muster. Well, Julie's based on the other side of
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: the world.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: The parent company of Sharewell. Good afternoon. Great to catch
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: up once again.
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: Good afternoon, Andy. Nice to talk to you.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Last time we spoke to you, it was a very
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: un-English problem having to deal with heat waves.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Have you settled into autumn weather yet?
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: Yes, we're getting there, although it's still above average, I think,
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: in terms of temperature. We've had a little bit of rain,
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: but our local reservoir is.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Still very low.
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: We are only 21% full this time of year, and
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: normally we're a lot higher than that. So we're going
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: to need an awful lot of rain to get it
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: to where it needs to be to sustain us. And
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: we really haven't had any significant grass growth since we
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: last spoke, actually. So, yeah, it's certainly had an impact. And,
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: you know, I was reading something yesterday and it said
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: that we had the driest summer since 1884. So, you know,
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: it's significant in terms of the impact that it's had
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: on the landscape.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: So how's the rural sector coped with the conditions?
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think, obviously, I think all the animals are
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: performing a lot better now. It's cooler now. You know,
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: and I think at the moment, you know, farmers are
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: pretty optimistic. Prices are good for livestock. The challenge obviously
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: comes in the form of input costs. So things like
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: fertilizer and fuel are escalating on a daily basis, which is,
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: you know, very hard for farmers to then plan because,
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: you know, it doesn't seem to settle at all. And
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: while the ongoing conflicts can continue, it's going to have
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: an impact on farming and The government has just had
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: an open letter sent to it. 180 organisations have signed
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: a letter to the government saying that food security has
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: to be a key consideration in light of what's going
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: on currently around the world and the impact that it's
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: having on the food supply chain, particularly with things like
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: fertiliser and fuel costs for farmers. So, yeah, it's significant.
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: We're just coming to the end of political party conference season. So,
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: you know, everybody's making lots of promises and pledges. And,
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: you know, and certainly the rural sector has had quite
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: a lot of mentions in terms of, you know, if
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: the Conservatives get back into power, they're going to cut
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: things like inheritance tax, which is great news. And they're
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: going to cut red tape and they're going to get
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: rid of some of these other government quangos. But it's
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: easy words. We need to see that put into action
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: if it's going to happen.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Government quangos.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: Interesting.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: What does that mean?
• 25:13
  Speaker 7: So organizations like the Environment Agency, Natural England, all of
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: the organizations that maybe have some legislative inputs or impacts
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: on particularly for things like farming. So the Environment Agency
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: and Natural England have an impact on how food is
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: produced and how farms are managed over here in the U.K.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: It sounds as though you've got the same issues as
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: New Zealand farmers, fuel issues. Fertiliser comes under the equation
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: How are you faring?
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: Well, I think the challenge obviously is just the extremely
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: high prices that a farmer's having to pay for fertiliser
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: and just the instability in the market and whether or
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: not it's actually going to be available. The key ingredients
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: that go into different types of fertilisers, are we going
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: to be able to source them at the right time?
• 26:03
  Speaker 7: and obviously be able to apply them to the ground
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: to actually be able to grow crops is the challenge
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: at the moment because of the uncertain times that we
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: are facing with what's going on in the Straits of Hormuz,
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: with Russia and Ukraine. It all has huge impacts and
• 26:22
  Speaker 7: obviously has a financial impact on farming businesses, but also
• 26:26
  Speaker 7: the supply chain sector as well.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Your fuel price is over $ 4 New Zealand a litre.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Even equated back, it's still pretty dear for what.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: You're used to.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: But I mean, are farmers able to get a supply
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: of fuel going forward, perhaps like America? They're allowing red
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: dye fuel to go on the roads.
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: It hasn't been sanctioned yet. But I think if things
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: continue the way they are, we may see that happen.
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: But no, not at the moment. But certainly people are
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: having to plan ahead. But I think, you know, they
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: are getting quite a shock when they're phoning out to
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: get quotes for their fuel. It's quite a challenge.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: The mood of the sector after a dry summer, though,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: is there a bit of fear heading into the winter months?
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, it sounds very similar to New Zealand six
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: months ago.
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think.
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: You know, given everything that's going on, there is, I
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: would say, a mood of confidence. You know, things like
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: prices for cattle and for sheep are very good, so.
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: With store cattle, steers and heifers, anything between 12 and
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: 24 months, you know, the really good stuff is making
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: sort of over £ 2, 000 a head. That's 12 to 24-month
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: steers and heifers. Anything from £ 1, 500 to £ 2, 400 a head.
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: Stuckled calves between 8 and 11 months, you know, they're
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: up around £ 1, 800. And prime steers, you know, they're... they're
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: well over 360 pence a kilo. So, you know, good prices.
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: Prime lambs are 331 pence plus a kilo. Coal ewes
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: are still selling well. And breeding stock, you know, there's
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: still a keen interest in them and actually even stronger
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: than last year in terms of price and people wanting
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: to buy them. So the breeding sales this autumn have
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: gone really well for people.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Is there such a thing as a wool market in
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: the UK?
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we do have a wool market, yeah. Yeah, the
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: wool board. I think there are a number of other
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: buyers as well now, but the British Wool Marketing Board
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: is still here.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: It's pretty much a by-product for a lot of people.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: I was over there, jeez, 25 years ago now, and
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I more or less just got dumped in the hole.
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's certainly there hasn't really been any value attached
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: to wool, which is shameful, really, given, you know, all
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: of the properties that wool provides. I don't think people
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: have really valued it in the way that it should
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: have been valued. You know, I can always remember my
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: dad saying that, you know, the wool check paid for
• 29:00
  Speaker 7: the shearing plus a bit more, whereas now it's rising again,
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: but it still doesn't cover, you know, it's minimal amount
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: of money that we get for our wool. But, you know,
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: they are, the World Marketing Board are raising their game
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: in terms of the marketing and promotion that they're doing with,
• 29:21
  Speaker 7: you know, products, things like clothing, working with fashion designers,
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: you know, it's going into making duvets and carpets and
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: stuff like that. So, you know, it's, I think there's
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: a big push because people do recognize the benefits of
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: the fact that it's a natural product and, you know,
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: it's much better than a synthetic product, but I think
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: it's still got a lot of work to do to
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: build its provenance and prominence back in the market.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: And how's everything going with Shearwell over there?
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: Yeah, very good. Yeah, in terms of sales in the UK,
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: obviously it's been a busy time with the slaughter tax
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: for lambs and also with calving now we're selling a
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: lot of tags for the cows and the calves that
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: are coming through um the guys in new zealand so
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: ray ben and al are doing a phenomenal job as
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: always so it would be remiss of me not to
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: mention them um you know they they're having a cracking
• 30:16
  Speaker 7: time that obviously have had with the sale of sheep
• 30:19
  Speaker 7: tags but obviously as well with the cattle tags that
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: we sell so the one piece s tags um they
• 30:25
  Speaker 7: they seem to be um increasing in popularity, but also
• 30:28
  Speaker 7: our boss tags, the two-piece tag for cattle. The guys
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: are selling an increasing amount of those. So, yeah, they're
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: doing a great job and working hard as always. So, yeah,
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: a big thanks to them and to everybody that's buying them, really.
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: So thank you.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: The cattle tags have been a welcome addition.
• 30:45
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: Yeah, definitely. And I think, you know, Shewell, I guess,
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: has been known for its sheep tags, probably not so
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: much for its cattle tags. But, you know, we have
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: a good product. And very much like the sheep tags,
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: you know, they are a good quality product and we
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: do them in a range of colours. And I think
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: they're well positioned in terms of price. So, yes, if
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: people do want more information, then don't hesitate to get
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: in contact with the guys and they'll be able to
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: help you.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Good on you, Julie. Always good to catch up.
• 31:15
  Speaker 7: Yeah, likewise, Andy. Lovely talking to you.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Julie Edwards of Shewell UK. Great to catch up with
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: the team.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: And Alan McCleary and Ray Enco doing a great job
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: over here too.
• 31:27
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• 31:56
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• 32:00
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're not wrong, Andy. It's hard to think that
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: we're just being through what we've been through, really, isn't it? Gosh,
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: this past week.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Well, how's the province coping? We've had all this moisture.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Certain parts, especially down south and coastal, have experienced it
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: worse than others.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: What's it like down there?
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Because I'll be honest, parts of northern Southland seem to
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: have recovered OK.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and, like, to be honest, Andy, it just depends
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: who you're talking to and what area you're in, you know. Yeah,
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: I was up in northern Southland area yesterday, and, yeah, like, there,
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: a wee bit of rain's really welcomed, so... So, yeah,
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: it depends who you're talking to. Obviously, naturally, different areas
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: got nailed more than others. So, yeah, but things are
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: definitely looking up. Like, I drove past some baleage getting
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: baled up and cut yesterday just on the Cargill side
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: of Matera, which was really nice to see. And, yeah, so.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just spring's certainly thrown plenty at our farmers
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: again this year, that's for sure.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Mating time's coming up as well, so it's not really
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: ideal the weather that we've had in the lead-in, let's
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: be perfectly honest. So negating the situation, what do you do?
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, yeah, you're not wrong. Like a lot
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: of farmers, they'll be dealing with cows that probably haven't
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: quite reached their target body condition score yet or you know,
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: their feed situations will be a lot tighter than expected.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: So I guess the key message we're giving is just
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: to really assess where your herd is and your farm
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: is at right now. You know, look at the body
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: condition score of your cows. And if you've got the
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: option to always, it's always really good practice to actually
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: body condition score your whole herd before mating starts, you know, Yeah,
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: don't just rely on a herd average. You know, actually
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: identify your lighter cows or cows that are just below
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: target and act early with them. You know, drafting them out,
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: getting them into their own herd and just taking all
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: that competition away from them. You know, and then you
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: can really prioritize pumping more feed or supplement and some
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: or just whatever it is that they need. And also
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: pay particular attention to your younger cows, you know, your
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: first and second carvers. They're still growing and, yeah, they're
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: a lot more vulnerable to losing condition, you know, even
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: delayed cycling. And, yeah, it just all adds to poor
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: reproductive performance, which is not what any farmer wants. And
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: if you can score... score your mob consistently as well
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: and actually monitor the change. It's really good if you
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: can get the same trained person to do this, whether
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: it's yourself or a certified assessor. Dearendi's actually got some
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: really cool body condition scoring tools as well, so you
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: can track your cows over time and not just use
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: it as a one-off exercise. And also for your mating time,
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: like it's always a really good time to review your
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: heat detection practices with your team. Just, yeah, just to
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: make sure that everyone knows the signs. It doesn't always
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: pay to presume. You know, obviously you're standing to be
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: mounted is one of your strongest signs. But, you know,
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: if your staff can also be watching for increased activity
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: or whether it's mounting other cows, you rub tail paint
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: or mucus discharge, just changes in behaviour, really, just to
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: be alert to those. It all helps if everyone's eyes
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: are on the prize. And also make sure that your
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: team knows what everyone's doing at making time, you know,
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: and that there's clear responsibilities in place for what's helped. Yeah,
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: agree who's checking the cows and who's recording heat and
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: who actually makes that final decision about insemination as well.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: even if you just have a simple written process. Yeah,
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: you know, it just helps everyone know what they're doing
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: and everyone's on the same page. No one's walking around
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: scratching their head. You can keep your accurate timing records
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: as well. It's always really good. Don't just rely on
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: your memory. Some people are amazing and can do that. But, yeah,
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: farmers are juggling a lot of balls in the air
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: at the moment, so... Yeah, if you can record your
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: heaps immediately rather than just relying on your memory, you'll
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: save yourself some dramas there. Yeah, and just I guess
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: another one, this is a real simple one, but it'll
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: save you time. Just make your life easier by making
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: cow identification easier, like check your ear tags and your
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: numbers and that they're actually present. They're clean and they're
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: easy to read. You'll be amazed at how much time
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: this will save you and frustration.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Events coming up next week. What's on the horizon?
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. So we've got really, really awesome pasture for
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: profit events coming up. There's actually one tomorrow and next week. So, yeah,
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: the one tomorrow is up in Oamaru. Yeah, and these events,
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: they're such a great opportunity to get your team off
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: farm for a couple of hours, you know, and go
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: and connect with other farmers and hear some practical ideas
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: for growing and using more homegrown seed. Yeah, really, really,
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: really cool days. We'll have Ron Pallow as Senior Farm
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: System Specialist from Dairy NZ. He's coming along to share
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: all his tips and tricks and knowledge. Yeah, around the
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: subjects on the day as well. So, yeah, there's a really,
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: really valuable event. And if you can get along to them,
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: they're well worth your time. Yeah, like I said earlier,
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: there's one up in Oamaru tomorrow. And then next week
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: we've got, on Tuesday the 20th, is at Hayden and
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: Kirsty Games. It's just on the outskirts of Riversdale. And
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: then the following day, on Wednesday the 21st, is at
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: Henny and Fair Antics, just out at Seawood Downs. So, yeah, like,
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: these are really top operators, so it's not to be missed. And, yeah,
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: if you can register online through our Dairy NZ website, that's, yeah,
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: ideal just for catering purposes, but always welcome just to
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: turn up, if you decide on the day that you
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  Speaker 3: want to come along, definitely do that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Good on you, Nicola. Enjoy the afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: You too, Andy. Thanks so much.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Nicola Blair of Dairy NZ. Every Wednesday here on the muster.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Nathan Bird and our resident sporting guru. Let's catch up next.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: Our resident sporting guru is Nathan Bird and joining up
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: with us a day earlier this week.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: For a particular reason. Nathan, good afternoon. How's everything?
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, very good mate. Yourself?
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, very well, thanks.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Speaking to people, the mood's changed a little bit because
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: the weather's been on the improve. And yeah, talk about
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: the weather improving, talk about summer sports. I've actually got
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Jacob Duffy on the show tomorrow, so I've had a
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: bit of a move around. Look, cricket season's already here,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: or pretty much here.
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that'll be great to have Jake and catch up
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: on his thoughts. Obviously he's had somewhat of a break
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: after just a huge sort of 18 months, maybe even
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: longer of cricket and found some of the best cricket
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: form of his life, hasn't he, during that time. So
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: that'll be a great catch-up. Actually, I was in Christchurch
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: yesterday and had an Indian taxi driver who was very
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: excited about the Indians coming here. He's not so confident
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: about how they'll go on the test, but very confident
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: about the line-up that they've got for the white ball stuff.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Well, the depth they've got, there's a 15-year-old who lit
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: up the IPL. Tell me more about this individual.
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's very excited about it.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: What's his name?
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: I think we.
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: I was going to leave this one to you, actually, mate.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: I'll try it. Vaibhav, Sharan Banshee.
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think we're all going to know it
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: if things work out, because this kid, we did see
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: him on debut sending some of the best bowlers in
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: the IPL back over their heads, so obviously a special talent,
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: and from the conversations I was having with this guy,
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: he reckons if If it works out, this guy is Tendulkar, Saywag, Dravid,
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: et cetera, all sort of rolled up into one batsman,
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: which is a bit of a scary prospect.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: All these cricketers like coming to New Zealand from the continent,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Indians especially, because they can walk down the street, buy
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: an ice cream, and they're not accosted. And back home,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: they've got to go out at night to do their shopping.
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a different situation, isn't it? And I always
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: sort of hark back to... to one of my former
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: bosses who had a great story about going up to
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: Queenstown to cover a warm-up game involving India. Two big
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: 40-seater buses parked outside the Queenstown airport and Tendulkar and
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: his family getting off at the front and hopping in
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: one 40-seater on their own and then the other 40-seater
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: for the rest of the team. So it sort of
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: goes to show it's operating at a different level.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: The MPC, the semifinals are here. Northland against Otago and
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Canterbury against Taranaki. Northland, let's be honest, this is a
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: team a lot of people want to go through and
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: win just because of the feel-good factor.
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, how good would that be? I mean, I think
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: of those four teams, you'd potentially, and maybe it's just
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: a bit of that sort of underdog mentality, but they've
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: just had such a great season and there's no reason
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: that they can't carry on. obviously they've got a lot
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: of belief and they've done a huge job to be
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: able to sort of keep things, keep that momentum going
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: even though they had a good Ranfurly Shield tenure but
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: even when they lost it they've been able to sort
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: of keep that momentum so the Taniwha have just been
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: absolutely huge it'd be a real sort of a Cinderella
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: story for them to do it but if I was
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: a betting man it'd probably go potentially as a Sinatago
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: Canterbury final.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: Tour of Southland, when does this crank into gear? Because
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: this is a special edition.
• 43:02
  Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, it is a special year. Even aside from
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: the fact that we're hosting two of these races in
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: the same year, which is a unique situation. But yeah,
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: it is the 70th year of the SBS Bank Tour
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: of Southland, the first week of November. And yes, as
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: we all know, this is part of the DNA of
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: the Southland sporting landscape. And I guess for any event
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: to get to its 70th year, especially something that's as
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: big an undertaking as a seven-day bike race, it's pretty
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: special to get to this point. And there's a number
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: of past winners who are going to be back down
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: in Southland to help celebrate that as well, which is
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: pretty cool.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Even though it's the second edition for the year due
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: to the weather events of 12 months ago, it'll still
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: be a popular event, are you thinking?
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it'll be huge. And, you know, it's a massive
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: undertaking in terms of, I guess, the volunteer involvement. So
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: to have those guys fronting up, you know, right down
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: to the marshals who stand on those corners with a flag,
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: you know, for hours in all sorts of weather, to
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: have those people sort of putting their time aside twice
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: in one year. I know the people that run this
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: race are very grateful to have that ongoing support. So, yeah,
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: it'll be just as good. And, you know, just I
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: guess that 70th does add something a wee bit more special.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: And just quickly to wrap up, the Wallabies head tails
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: are between their legs. What do the All Blacks need
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: to do to preserve that winning record over the Wallabies?
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: I think it's like 12 games now.
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm possibly a wee bit sheepish about that. I
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: think I was talking up the Wallabies' chances this time
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: last week and obviously the All Blacks went out and
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: did a number. You could tell, I think, the preparation
• 44:54
  Speaker 5: and I guess the fire that the All Blacks went
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: through over in South Africa. They were probably relishing playing
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: a team that wasn't in a green jersey and wasn't
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: absolutely whacking them. So once they got on top, they
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: stayed on top. It is hard to see probably the
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: Wallabies bouncing back from that situation. But, you know, they
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: have beaten South Africa this year. So, you know, if anything,
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: the All Blacks can't be complacent.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. No, thanks for your time as always. And we'll
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: catch up next week.
• 45:24
  Speaker 8: Lovely.
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: Thanks, mate.
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• 46:01
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• 46:08
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• 46:14
  Speaker 2: G'day, Mark. How do we go?
• 46:15
  Speaker 8: Yeah, g'day everyone. No, very good hearing about Clutha today.
• 46:18
  Speaker 8: Very small yarding again today in all departments, but everything
• 46:21
  Speaker 8: still seems to be selling very well for strong demand
• 46:24
  Speaker 8: from the works price. Getting into the prime lambs. Prime lambs,
• 46:28
  Speaker 8: speaking of your prime lambs, anywhere from $ 280 to $ 330.
• 46:31
  Speaker 8: Good mediums, $ 240 to $ 270. And your smaller end primes
• 46:35
  Speaker 8: are $ 180 to $ 220. Store lambs, there wasn't much of
• 46:38
  Speaker 8: a yarding on them today, so anywhere from $ 100 to
• 46:40
  Speaker 8: $ 175 for the store lambs. Into the Prime News, some
• 46:44
  Speaker 8: big heavy Prime News continue to come through and selling
• 46:47
  Speaker 8: very well at $ 250 to $ 310. Medium still selling very
• 46:52
  Speaker 8: well there at $ 320 to $ 250. And your lottery news
• 46:55
  Speaker 8: there anywhere from $ 110 to $ 180. A handful of Rams
• 46:59
  Speaker 8: in today, they were at $ 70 to $ 130. That was
• 47:02
  Speaker 8: us here at Balclotha and hope to see you next week.
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: See you.