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The Muster- Richard Bell: Nightcaps YFC · The Muster on Hokonui

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the muster.
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  Speaker 2: Richard Bell of Nightcaps Young Farmers joins us in our
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  Speaker 2: Young Farmers chat for a Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: G'day Richard, how's things?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, good thanks Andy, how are you getting on?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Now you're based on a block not far out of
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  Speaker 2: Lake Hiroko, how have things been?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, good, good.
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  Speaker 4: We've sort of had a bit of a wet start
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  Speaker 4: coming out of the winter, but it's definitely turned around now.
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  Speaker 4: The sun's out today, we'll be growing a bit of
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  Speaker 4: grass I'd say.
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  Speaker 2: Give people a bit of an understanding of the farming
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  Speaker 2: operation there Richard, what are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so we're just on a dairy support block.
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  Speaker 3: Down here. We're changing it up a little bit this
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  Speaker 3: year coming.
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  Speaker 4: We're sort of only taking half the number of dairy
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  Speaker 4: calves we normally take in December and just getting into
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of our own beef this year. So
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  Speaker 4: we've just been buying up some store cattle the last
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  Speaker 4: couple of months.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, we'll sort of.
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  Speaker 4: Be split 50-50 between that.
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  Speaker 3: Dairy grazing for others and doing a bit of our
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  Speaker 3: own beef there, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great time to be involved with beef, albeit
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  Speaker 2: a wee bit pricey at times, but it's looking pretty
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  Speaker 2: good for the industry on a whole.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, it's looking quite rosy at the moment,
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  Speaker 4: so yeah, long.
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  Speaker 3: Let that continue.
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  Speaker 2: You were saying before as well, you've only moved down
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  Speaker 2: to the South Island in the last year or so,
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  Speaker 2: you're from up the Manawatu.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, I grew up just out of Palmerston North,
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  Speaker 4: went to school up there, and yeah, Yeah, I only
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  Speaker 4: moved down south about a year ago. So, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 4: all new to me down here. But loving the change,
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  Speaker 4: it's a good part of the country down here, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Apart from the climate, we'll leave that to the side,
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  Speaker 2: what are the biggest changes between the regions that you've noticed?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's quite a good.
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  Speaker 4: I think coming down here, it's quite a good sort
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  Speaker 4: of community feel down here, I think.
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  Speaker 3: Sort of small.
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  Speaker 4: Community rallies together and... Had some pretty cool stuff going on,
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  Speaker 4: local squash and rugby club and young farmers and bits
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  Speaker 4: like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the small community feels awesome, eh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks a way our rugby team won Richard
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  Speaker 2: Templeton as your coach.
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  Speaker 1: G'day, Hoff, if you're listening. You're involved with.
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  Speaker 2: Nightcaps Young Farmers. Were you involved with Young Farmers before
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  Speaker 2: you come down south?
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  Speaker 3: No, I hadn't been involved with Young Farmers up in
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  Speaker 3: the North Island.
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  Speaker 4: I sort of joined up with them when I came
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  Speaker 4: down here just to get out of it and meet
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  Speaker 4: a few new people, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, you're enjoying it. You're still there?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, love it.
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  Speaker 4: It's a good crew down at Nightcaps. And, yeah, we
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  Speaker 4: sort of get quite a good turnout down there.
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  Speaker 3: We meet up at the Winton.
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  Speaker 4: Top Pub the first Wednesday of every month.
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  Speaker 3: And, yeah, we get quite a good turnout. And it's
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  Speaker 3: a great group of people down there.
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  Speaker 4: And, yeah, if anyone's on the fence out there thinking
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  Speaker 4: about coming down, I'd definitely recommend it.
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  Speaker 3: Give it a go, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Does that seem to be the consensus of the younger
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  Speaker 2: farming generation these days? If you want to get involved
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  Speaker 2: and meet people, then the Young Farmers is the avenue
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  Speaker 2: to do it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd say so.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a great way to just get out there
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  Speaker 4: and meet people if you're, yeah, sort of ticking away
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  Speaker 4: on farm and think you need to get off a
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  Speaker 4: bit and see a few other people and just catch
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  Speaker 4: up for a beer and a yarn and see what's
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  Speaker 4: been going on. It's just quite good every now and
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  Speaker 4: then to get off and.
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  Speaker 4: See people outside of the farm and just get off
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  Speaker 4: and yeah, just catch up for a bit of a
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  Speaker 4: beer and see what's been going on. Yeah, so enjoy that.
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  Speaker 4: We've got quite a few events coming up, organised. We've
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  Speaker 4: got a Halloween bus trip on the 31st of this
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  Speaker 4: month which we've got some tickets on our Instagram page
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  Speaker 4: if anyone out there is keen to join. I think
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  Speaker 4: we've got about 10 tickets left so Got a bit
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  Speaker 4: of a pub crawl going on at the.
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  Speaker 3: End of the month, which 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 4: Oh, I think it started off as a mystery trip,
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  Speaker 4: but we're not so much a mystery anymore. We're going
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  Speaker 4: to meet at the Winton Top Pub at 6pm on
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  Speaker 4: the 31st, and I think we're going Drummond, a tower,
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  Speaker 4: have a cargo, and then back to Winton about midnight.
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing wrong with that, mate.
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  Speaker 2: Now, as far as fundraising efforts, anything on the horizon,
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  Speaker 2: or has that been and gone?
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  Speaker 4: Fundraising on the horizon what have we got coming up
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  Speaker 4: I think we've got some wood splitting to do in
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  Speaker 4: the next couple of months can't think of anything else
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  Speaker 4: off the top of my head but I'm sure we'll
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  Speaker 4: have a few other fundraising events pop up in the
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  Speaker 4: next little while as the weather gets better if we
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  Speaker 4: get out and do some things.
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  Speaker 2: Another events podcast as you get closer towards Christmas getting
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  Speaker 2: together with Thornberry or Tiana or anybody having a shindig
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  Speaker 2: what's on the horizon you reckon?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we've got district competition for the Young Farmers competition
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  Speaker 4: coming up.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's on the 21st of next month. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: got that.
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  Speaker 1: That's for Riverton, isn't it?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, Riverton, I think it is, yeah, for district. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: got that next month.
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  Speaker 4: And then come December, I think we're booked in to
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  Speaker 4: go to the races in Invercargill.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah, it'll be another good day out there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, fair enough, mate.
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  Speaker 2: So you guys, once again, if you want to know
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  Speaker 2: about Nightcaps Young Farmers, go onto your social channels, and
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  Speaker 2: the meeting is the first Wednesday of the month at
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  Speaker 2: the Top Pub.
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  Speaker 1: Is that right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's correct. Yeah, at the Top Pub in Blinton,
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  Speaker 3: first Wednesday of every month.
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  Speaker 4: 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. Awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Cheers, Andy.
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  Speaker 3: Have a good one.
• 5:41
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  Speaker 2: the afternoon. Not looking too bad in the forecast.
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