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The Muster Full Show: 05/11/26 · The Muster on Hokonui

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon and welcome to the muster on Hokonui. I'm
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Speaker 1: Andy Muir, the show's brought to you by Peter Genetics.
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Speaker 1: Welcome along to a beautiful afternoon here on the main
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Speaker 1: street of Gore. Blue sky in abundance and an absolute
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Speaker 1: peril for the afternoon. Not really the kind of weather
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Speaker 1: you associate for the week of the Tour of the Southland,
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Speaker 1: but nonetheless... We'll catch up with Nathan Burton later on
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Speaker 1: in the hour to see how things are all going
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Speaker 1: in that department. But the music theme for today is
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Speaker 1: something a bit different. It's called Yacht Rock. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: you imagine your dad cruising around in his jeans and sneakers,
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Speaker 1: which is actually pretty trendy these days. And this is
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Speaker 1: the music they come up with. Now, this is Escape,
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Speaker 1: the Pina Colada song by Rupert Holmes. It is actually
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Speaker 1: the story of somebody who writes to a lady in
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Speaker 1: the classifieds. saying that he wants to meet up with her.
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Speaker 1: He's not happy with his relationship. She replies, he meets
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Speaker 1: up with this individual, and guess what? It's actually his
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Speaker 1: girlfriend at the time that is the person at the
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Speaker 1: other end in the paper. So it's one of the
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Speaker 1: coolest stories in the song. This afternoon, later on, showers
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Speaker 1: starting up. At some stage, we've come variable winds in 23. Tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: thunderstorms later on with breezy northern east 10 and 24. Saturday,
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Speaker 1: cloudy with light southwesterlies 8 and 20. Sunday, cloudy with
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Speaker 1: breezy southwesterlies 9 and 18. And Monday, cloudy yet again
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Speaker 1: with breezy easterlies 9 and 17. So temperatures to hand,
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Speaker 1: Clinton 13.2, Herriot 13.1, Southland 13.8, Riverton 13.9, Te Anau 13.3,
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Speaker 1: Tararoa 14.4, Winton 12.8 of Woodlands. 13.3, Peter Gardine farms
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Speaker 1: in Natdale and joins, starts us off this afternoon. Followed
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Speaker 1: up by Claire Tunenberg of Beefalab New Zealand, then Brenton
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Speaker 1: Howden farming over at Benmore. Talking about rotations, sheep rotations
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Speaker 1: or grazing rotations heading into December, like mob stopping, mob stocking,
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Speaker 1: I should say, or your set stocking. Brenton tells me
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Speaker 1: about his theory over there. Mick Withers is on the show. Now,
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Speaker 1: Mick is one of the organisers of the Young Auctioneer
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Speaker 1: of the Year, which happened earlier this week in Christchurch,
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Speaker 1: and just tells us about the auctioneering scene in general.
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Speaker 1: Quite a bit to go along with it, to be honest.
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Speaker 1: And like I say, Nathan Burden following the Tour of
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Speaker 1: Southland has a chinwag before the end of the hour.
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Speaker 1: Andrew Martin of PDG writes in, gives a rundown on
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Speaker 1: the Charlton sale results that occurred this morning. Then we'll
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Speaker 1: start the hour off after that with Peter Gardai. And
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Speaker 1: this is the muster. and it's brought to you by
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Speaker 1: Peter's Genetics.
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Speaker 2: This interview is brought to you by AgriCenter South, your
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Speaker 2: strength on the land.
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Speaker 1: For farm machinery sales, service, parts, and advice, see them
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Speaker 1: in Gore, Cromwell, Lawnville, or Milton. Peter Gardine farms in
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Speaker 1: Napdale and joins us once again on this beautiful afternoon
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Speaker 1: in the Deep South. G'day, Pete.
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Speaker 3: It's another cracker down here, isn't it? After the September,
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Speaker 3: it's all been long forgot by now.
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Speaker 4: I reckon.
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Speaker 1: So how are you coping out there? You'll have pretty
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Speaker 1: good feed levels, I'd imagine.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the stock are doing really well. It was a
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Speaker 3: bit lean in September, but I've bounced back and I've
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Speaker 3: bred to do that. And all our oats are up
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Speaker 3: out of the ground, barley's up out of the ground,
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Speaker 3: summer crop's up out of the ground, and peas and
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Speaker 3: beet are going in, hopefully before the weekend is the plan.
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Speaker 1: Like drenching on ewes for lambs and the likes. Is
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Speaker 1: that coming up shortly for you guys? Do you do that?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's an interesting one. We've actually stopped that on
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Speaker 3: some of our country. Where we get less rainfall and
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Speaker 3: because of the breeding we've been doing, we've actually been
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Speaker 3: able to stop drenching on mum for some of our stock.
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Speaker 3: And it's actually led to an increase in weaning weights,
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Speaker 3: which I don't know if that's a coincidence or not,
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Speaker 3: but I do wonder whether not bringing them in and
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Speaker 3: out and mismothering them is actually a good thing. um
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Speaker 3: but on the least ground um where it's heavier country
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Speaker 3: we do drench on mum down there so yeah it
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Speaker 3: is the only thing if you don't drench on mum
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Speaker 3: you're going to mouth another at weaning which is a
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Speaker 3: um a busy job on a busy day but it's
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Speaker 3: man it's great not doing that anymore on some of
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Speaker 3: our country.
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Speaker 1: Drench resistance is that something to consider.
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Speaker 3: Um drench resistance something to consider but for us it's
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Speaker 3: actually just fecal egg counts and if we don't have
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Speaker 3: a need to do it we just don't do it
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Speaker 3: and um Yeah, it's great because you reduce potential drench
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Speaker 3: resistance and you also reduce cost and you reduce what
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Speaker 3: everybody knows is a lot of work.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's a massive issue, and by the sounds of it,
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Speaker 1: it's just getting worse too. So people trying to formulate
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Speaker 1: a plan, if they found out last season that it
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Speaker 1: was something to contemplate and trying to work with the
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Speaker 1: drench families as good as you can, it can get
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Speaker 1: rather complicated, I suppose.
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Speaker 3: And I know this is like, I'm going to sound
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Speaker 3: like a silly stud breeder, But genetics is a big
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Speaker 3: part to play on it, and even for us commercially,
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Speaker 3: I started on this 20 years ago, becoming less drenched dependent,
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Speaker 3: and I just strongly recommend everybody looks at that as
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Speaker 3: an avenue in their system if they want to keep
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Speaker 3: farming sheep into the future.
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Speaker 1: Well, not that many years ago. You drenched every three weeks,
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Speaker 1: every 21 days regardless.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a wee bit before my time, and
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Speaker 3: I'm lucky that when I came home, we're on 28 days,
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Speaker 3: four weeks, and I'm lucky I was brought up in
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Speaker 3: a family that was pretty responsible around their drenching. And
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Speaker 3: I just, I really took to it pretty hard when
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Speaker 3: I started 20 years ago to drenching less and not
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Speaker 3: using out long-acting products. And man, we've seen a huge,
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Speaker 3: huge benefit from what we've done. But, you know, 20
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Speaker 3: years doesn't happen overnight.
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Speaker 1: That's right. I remember you classify me as an old farmer.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no judgment, no judgment here, but yeah, that's, yeah.
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Speaker 3: And I think there's a lot of things people can
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Speaker 3: do on that front. If they've got light tutus, just
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Speaker 3: black tag the lightest ones in the autumn because that'll
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Speaker 3: be a drench issue, and just put them to a
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Speaker 3: terminal ram. And same sort of thing, don't use long-acting drenches,
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Speaker 3: you don't need them. They're just a scam, yeah.
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Speaker 1: You reckon there's no truth behind what they're trying to achieve?
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Speaker 3: Well, they can work in certain situations, but if you're
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Speaker 3: in a situation where you need them, I'd actually say
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Speaker 3: that your system's wrong. Part of an organisation I'm part of,
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Speaker 3: we've dropped long-acting drenches on that farm this year because
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Speaker 3: a farm has just taken over, and so far we've
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Speaker 3: saved the property about $ 20, 000, and the results look pretty
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Speaker 3: good so far.
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Speaker 1: So as we get into November proper, you'd say the
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Speaker 1: positives are there. A lot of the positivity's returned after September.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I had a certain stock agent that you know
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Speaker 3: quite well talking to me a couple of weeks ago,
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Speaker 3: and he had a farmer complaining to him that it
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Speaker 3: was already starting to get dry. And my response to
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Speaker 3: him was, if the farmer's like that, man, I'd hate
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Speaker 3: to be his wife. Like, there's a lot of positivity
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Speaker 3: out there, and if you focus on the positive, it's
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Speaker 3: pretty blimmin' awesome. Like I said, I've been in this
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Speaker 3: career for 20 years, and this is probably the most
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Speaker 3: fun that it's been for me so far.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's a fair assessment, though. A lot
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Speaker 1: of people get nervous mid-October onwards regarding rainfall, and especially
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Speaker 1: from now on, Pete, any moisture they get, they take,
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Speaker 1: because summer is an unknown quantity.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I know, but I'm in that, and we're in
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Speaker 3: that boat ourselves. If anybody knows where the Pyramid Hill
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Speaker 3: is on the east side of Riversdale, I mean, there's
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Speaker 3: not too much drier than that around, and that's us.
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Speaker 1: But.
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Speaker 3: You know, we've just had a wet September, and if
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Speaker 3: you're always focusing on the negatives, it's not good for
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Speaker 3: your mindset, and it's not good for your, I suppose
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Speaker 3: you'd call it, your mental well-being these days. And, yeah,
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Speaker 3: I think there's so many positives out there that you've
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Speaker 3: just got to focus on the positives and what you
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Speaker 3: can control. And I hate saying that, but it's just
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Speaker 3: so true. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's a saying that is controlling the controllables, and
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Speaker 1: it sounds like a lot of rhetoric bollocks for what's
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Speaker 1: of another saying, but it's pretty relevant.
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Speaker 3: It is, and that's one of the things I'd say
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Speaker 3: to people is, like, at the moment I'm at that
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Speaker 3: clearing sale at Riversdale, and I don't have anything here
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Speaker 3: I'm particularly worried about buying, but it's actually just good
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Speaker 3: to get off the tractor and go and see some
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Speaker 3: people and have some yarns and have a sausage on
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Speaker 3: the barbecue and all that sort of thing. And, yeah,
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Speaker 3: I started the tractor at 5 o'clock this morning and
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Speaker 3: I'll be sowing peas late into the night. So, like,
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Speaker 3: I'm still getting work done, but I'm prioritising going and
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Speaker 3: having a yarn with people I know and all that
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Speaker 3: sort of thing. And I think that's important, especially if
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Speaker 3: you're working on your own.
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Speaker 1: Are you not tempted to buy another bit of kit,
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Speaker 1: just take it home on a whim? That's what clearing
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Speaker 1: sales do.
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Speaker 3: I think that's the wrong colour for me here, actually.
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Speaker 3: Wrong colour for me here, but, no, we'll see what happens. But, yeah, no, we're...
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Speaker 3: We'll see what happens, but no, just, I don't know,
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Speaker 3: clearing sales, I'm not a, I don't go to every one,
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Speaker 3: but if they're local and there hasn't been one for
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Speaker 3: a while, I'm keen to go along and see some
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Speaker 3: people and, yeah, have a change of scenery, eh?
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Speaker 1: The greatest thing about the clearing sale, the most disturbing,
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Speaker 1: is you go and spend $ 35 on a big bag
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Speaker 1: of tools or a big box of bolts and that
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Speaker 1: just for one bolt that you might use, say, in 2035.
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Speaker 3: So our neighbour, who we've mentioned before on this one
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Speaker 3: as well, he's a clearing sale classic. And when the
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Speaker 3: McNab sale was on, he used to tell me that
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Speaker 3: he'd buy the box with the thing he wanted and
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Speaker 3: then repackage the rest of it and take it back
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Speaker 3: to the McNab sale and then get rid of it again. And, yeah,
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Speaker 3: so that is. I enjoy the theatre and the spectacle
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Speaker 3: of a clearing sale too. Like, it is a fun occasion.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. It's like the auctioneers. I mean, I'm speaking... to
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Speaker 1: Mick Withers shortly, who was involved with one of the
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Speaker 1: organisers of the Young Auctioneer of the Year. And that's
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Speaker 1: certainly an art form as well, and just watching them
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Speaker 1: go about their work. It's one thing for these stockies,
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Speaker 1: you know. You've got to be able to sell a product.
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Speaker 3: And a good auctioneer can really sell stock for more
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Speaker 3: and they can really get the most out of the crowd.
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Speaker 3: And it is very much an art form. And the
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Speaker 3: good ones are just great to watch, eh?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. Good on you, Pete. We'll let you carry
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Speaker 1: on to our kicking. Don't go and buy an extra
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Speaker 1: plough or anything. No, no.
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Speaker 3: I'll try and just stick to the sausage in the
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Speaker 3: paddy at lunchtime, eh?
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Speaker 1: Peter Gardine of Napdale. Always good to catch up. Beautiful
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Speaker 1: afternoon outside as well. Long may this weather continue. just
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Speaker 1: with the right amount of moisture. It's all we want
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Speaker 1: in Southland, right? Claire Thutenberg's up next from Beef and
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Speaker 1: Lamb New Zealand. You are listening to The Muster. Claire
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Speaker 1: Thutenberg of Beef and Lamb New Zealand joins us, Southern
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Speaker 1: Extension Manager. G'day Claire, how are you today?
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Speaker 4: Hi, Andy.
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Speaker 1: Good, thanks.
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Speaker 5: How are you?
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Speaker 1: Pretty good. It's a nice spell of weather, which is
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Speaker 1: being appreciated, even getting into the 20s.
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Speaker 5: Oh, it's an absolute cracker today. Really, really enjoying it. So, no,
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Speaker 5: we're lucky. We'll take it while we can.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. It's been pretty busy with Beef and
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Speaker 1: Lamb recently, though. A couple of seminars and webinars. All
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Speaker 1: the nars are covered.
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Speaker 5: Yes, the event calendar is certainly heating up and definitely
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Speaker 5: part of it is bringing in different delivery methods and
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Speaker 5: one of them being a webinar. And for us, well, nationwide,
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Speaker 5: we've got a ram buying webinar next week. So that's
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Speaker 5: focusing on being able to make informed decisions when you're
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Speaker 5: selecting customers. both your breeder and your ram size.
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Speaker 1: Lots of a ram buying seminar. How long does it
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Speaker 1: go on for realistically? What can people expect? I mean,
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Speaker 1: with all due respect.
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Speaker 5: So it goes for an hour. So what we're looking
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Speaker 5: at is it's really breaking down what does the data
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Speaker 5: mean because there's a huge amount of data out there.
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Speaker 5: There's also a massive option or huge number of options
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Speaker 5: that you have when selecting your breeder. And so what
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Speaker 5: we want to ensure is that when our farmers are
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Speaker 5: looking at data, one, they know what they're looking at
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Speaker 5: and how to break it down. And then secondly, how
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Speaker 5: they can actually apply that to their own farming business.
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Speaker 5: So we looked right back into ensuring that you understand
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Speaker 5: what your breeding objectives are, because everyone should actually understand that.
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Speaker 5: what rams they're getting, but why they're getting them. So
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Speaker 5: if they see opportunity in growth, if they see opportunity
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Speaker 5: in increasing.
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Speaker 2: Production, our.
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Speaker 5: Part to play there is ensuring that they know how
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Speaker 5: to do that. So it's really applicable, practical, and we
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Speaker 5: hope that people go along being able to use the
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Speaker 5: tools that I've learned on the webinar. It's also looking
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Speaker 5: at a couple of tools that Beef and Lamb have,
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Speaker 5: which is Improve, which is the data platform. and the
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Speaker 5: other one being improved tracker, which is a tool that's
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Speaker 5: just been released or developed for our commercial farmers to
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Speaker 5: actually understand what their genetic progress is in their commercial flock.
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Speaker 5: So it's all great stuff.
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Speaker 1: When you walk into the supermarket at the moment, it's
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Speaker 1: disturbing the amount of Christmas stuff that's in there already.
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Speaker 1: But one thing about Christmas is the sampler box, all
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Speaker 1: the different biscuits. And I suppose a correlation, Claire, is
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Speaker 1: when you're going for a ram, looking for that pick
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Speaker 1: and mix that is going to work for your operation. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it is.
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Speaker 5: And I mean, marketing, don't be fooled by marketing. And
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Speaker 5: that's what we probably always say is don't be fooled
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Speaker 5: by marketing. Look at actually what's on offer. Break that
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Speaker 5: down and really pinpoint breeders that are forward thinking, that
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Speaker 5: are utilizing the technology that's available. Because the important thing
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Speaker 5: is that the genetics that you're purchasing are actually proven.
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Speaker 5: and breeders have every capability of being able to do that.
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Speaker 5: So it is. There's a huge number of selections out
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Speaker 5: there with breed, but when it comes down to it, really,
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Speaker 5: it's just understanding exactly what you're trying to achieve from
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Speaker 5: your purchase.
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Speaker 1: The virtual day is coming up next week too. It
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Speaker 1: looks as though a lot of people are keen on this.
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Speaker 1: We talked about this last week on the show and
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Speaker 1: certainly looks at technology to the fore.
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Speaker 4: It is.
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Speaker 5: It's a really exciting day over at West Range Station
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Speaker 5: and we've got huge support from Gallagher PGG Wrightsons as
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Speaker 5: well as obviously the Chamberlain family. This is an awesome
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Speaker 5: day and I really do encourage anyone that has or
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Speaker 5: is looking at implementing virtual fencing into a beef system
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Speaker 5: to come along and have a look. We're going to
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Speaker 5: be breaking it right down from supplier, you know, how
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Speaker 5: do you choose what's best for your business, looking at
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Speaker 5: the ways in which you can increase efficiencies on your
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Speaker 5: farm in terms of your labour and pasture management and
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Speaker 5: then also really breaking it down into understanding what, you know,
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Speaker 5: the finance side of it, the profitability of it because
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Speaker 5: ultimately at the end of the day when you're investing
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Speaker 5: in things there needs to be a return on it.
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Speaker 5: So we'll be diving into the figures as well. The
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Speaker 5: day includes a really hefty part of a farm tour
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Speaker 5: around West Crone Station. So the idea is that we
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Speaker 5: go out and actually see the animals, see what's happening
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Speaker 5: on farm, see pasture, and, yeah, get some really robust
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Speaker 5: discussions in place.
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Speaker 1: And the other thing coming up is drenching for a
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Speaker 1: lot of people. We talked about it with Pete Gardine previously,
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Speaker 1: but this all relates back to the parasite workshop. You
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Speaker 1: can't get enough of these at the moment. Trying to
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Speaker 1: sort out a decent drenching programme.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a looming, I call it a looming thing
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Speaker 5: to tackle. It happens every year, and the best thing
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Speaker 5: you can do is actually be prepared for it. So
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Speaker 5: we have a workshop on the 24th over at the
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Speaker 5: Mossburn Rugby Club. It's focusing on young stocks. Obviously, that's
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Speaker 5: where it all starts, getting that drenching, a really effective
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Speaker 5: drench program in place. The most important thing is that
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Speaker 5: we want farmers to understand is when to actually start
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Speaker 5: pulling that trigger on the gun, you know, knowing when
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Speaker 5: that trigger point is and then how to actually manage
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Speaker 5: the drenching intervals. And so there's a huge number of
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Speaker 5: practical takeaways from the workshop there. So they'll be focusing
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Speaker 5: on both lambs and calves because we do want to
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Speaker 5: keep putting emphasis on the integration of different species to
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Speaker 5: manage parasites.
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Speaker 1: So all of these will be on the Beef and
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Speaker 1: Lamb website, I imagine, Claire, or in the e-diary? Yes, both, Andy.
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Speaker 5: As with every week, it'll come out tomorrow morning with
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Speaker 5: all of the information on there, and also included if
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Speaker 5: there's farmers out there interested. We've also got on the
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Speaker 5: events page the four farmers' events, which is the surfing
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Speaker 5: and the rural riders, so really encourage people to make
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Speaker 5: time to belong to one of those.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. There's some really cool stuff going on there, Claire.
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Speaker 1: Always good to catch up. You enjoy the afternoon.
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Speaker 4: Fantastic.
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Speaker 1: Thanks, Andy. Claire Tudenberg of Beef and Lamb New Zealand.
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Speaker 1: Talking about supermarkets, if you enjoy Christmas music, good news,
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Speaker 1: they've started playing it already. Brenton Howden's up next. This
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Speaker 1: is The Muster.
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Speaker 6: The Muster.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the muster. The musical theme today is
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Speaker 1: yacht rock. Yes, that is a category. You all know
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Speaker 1: that song there, of course, Toto by Africa. As we
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Speaker 1: head over to Benmore to catch up with Brenton Howden,
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Speaker 1: farming over that way. Just off the main drag there
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Speaker 1: as you're heading between Lumsden and Winton. G'day, Howdy.
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Speaker 4: How you going, Andy?
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Speaker 1: Pretty good. Last time we spoke to you, it was
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Speaker 1: the transitioning from the wet to the dry. How are
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Speaker 1: things going?
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Speaker 4: Oh, September's a distant memory now, isn't it? It's certainly changed,
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Speaker 4: hasn't it?
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Speaker 1: So October's played ball, more or less, I think it's
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Speaker 1: fair to say.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. October was very kind to us. It fixed
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Speaker 4: all the problems that September created, well, most of them anyway.
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Speaker 1: So everything's corrected itself in the work sense? You're coping
18:46
Speaker 1: all right?
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Speaker 6: Not too bad.
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Speaker 4: We're a wee bit behind where we should be with
18:50
Speaker 4: getting stuff in. I've got, hopefully, quite a bit going
18:53
Speaker 4: in tonight or tomorrow, and that's probably about three weeks
18:55
Speaker 4: behind there, and Haven't got any barley in the ground yet,
18:58
Speaker 4: so I'm quite well behind that, but that's probably next
19:01
Speaker 4: week's job. But I've got a wee bit in the
19:03
Speaker 4: ground and going to do some grass seed after I've
19:06
Speaker 4: finished talking to you, and then got a bit of
19:08
Speaker 4: leafy turnip in and a bit more to do tomorrow,
19:10
Speaker 4: so we'll get there.
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Speaker 1: You normally have your bait in probably in the middle
19:14
Speaker 1: of October?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, normally about, I think, 20th of October. Yeah, well,
19:19
Speaker 4: two years ago in 2024, we didn't get it into
19:22
Speaker 4: about now, and it's still a good enough crop. So, yeah,
19:24
Speaker 4: I don't think there's a huge panic to get it in.
19:26
Speaker 4: I just sort of normally get it in once it's ready,
19:28
Speaker 4: and if it's middle of October or if it's, yeah, now, it's, yeah,
19:32
Speaker 4: I don't think there's a huge difference in it.
19:34
Speaker 1: So how did the tailing go, the hoggets and the likes?
19:36
Speaker 1: Everything all sorted up now? That's just a distant memory too?
19:40
Speaker 4: I'll still tail the hoggets. I might imagine Grant will
19:43
Speaker 4: be here in another week or two, but, yeah, ewes
19:46
Speaker 4: are all tidied up But, yeah, it worked out not
19:50
Speaker 4: too bad. We weren't too far behind. I think it
19:51
Speaker 4: was about 3% or 4% back. So I was pretty
19:54
Speaker 4: happy to be only that far back, yeah.
19:56
Speaker 1: That's pretty good going, though, if you're only that far
19:59
Speaker 1: behind considering the conditions.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it just pays credit for the work the lambing
20:05
Speaker 4: shepherd and myself, we put in. Yeah, we put a
20:07
Speaker 4: lot of hard work in there to keep stuff alive
20:09
Speaker 4: in it. Seems to have paid off so far. Still
20:12
Speaker 4: the odd thing, falling off now, but it's probably no
20:16
Speaker 4: worse than other years. You know, we'd get those shoe
20:17
Speaker 4: drop-offs after tailing, but yeah, I'm pretty stoked with how
20:22
Speaker 4: we managed to make it through.
20:24
Speaker 1: So the likes of your triplets, are you noticing a
20:25
Speaker 1: drop-off in them at all as the season gets through,
20:28
Speaker 1: or are they starting to wean themselves off mum a bit?
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Speaker 4: Well, I take everything. I take one off all the triplets.
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Speaker 4: I think I only left one of them the first
20:36
Speaker 4: two or three on, so everything else came off, and
20:38
Speaker 4: they're on a on a feeder so yeah the triplets
20:41
Speaker 4: now are pretty much twins and they're as big as
20:44
Speaker 4: everything else so it seems to work pretty well here
20:47
Speaker 4: to put them on a feeder because you always have
20:49
Speaker 4: one drop off or two drop off so yeah it
20:52
Speaker 4: makes sense I think.
20:54
Speaker 1: So how many pets did you end up with?
20:57
Speaker 4: I think there's still 20 or 30 to tail but
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Speaker 4: I think it'll be about 150, 160. That's a few.
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Speaker 1: To feed as well though mind you but the money's
21:06
Speaker 1: there so if you put the effort in you get
21:07
Speaker 1: the reward, same old story right?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, my mother puts a lot of hard work in
21:13
Speaker 4: getting them up and going and getting them onto a
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Speaker 4: deal of our feeder. There's quite a lot of work.
21:19
Speaker 4: It's not as simple as throwing them in a pen
21:21
Speaker 4: and there you go. It takes a bit of work,
21:24
Speaker 4: but I think it is well worth it. I think
21:26
Speaker 4: my costings are right at around $ 140 to rear them.
21:30
Speaker 4: If we're going to get $ 200 lambs, it's better than
21:33
Speaker 4: store lambs, isn't it?
21:34
Speaker 1: And wet dryers are going for good money as well.
21:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, they were all gone. That was real good money. Yeah,
21:40
Speaker 4: you don't hesitate to get them away, get them away
21:41
Speaker 4: and put the grass into something else.
21:44
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know, what was the types the other day?
21:46
Speaker 1: About $ 300 or something for use?
21:48
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think we were just a wee bit
21:51
Speaker 4: off that. But yeah, it's real good money and it's
21:54
Speaker 4: good because it needs.
21:55
Speaker 7: To be like that.
21:56
Speaker 1: Now, an important part of your workforce there as such,
21:59
Speaker 1: or technology-wise, you had the drone out just at the
22:02
Speaker 1: start of lambing. Do you get to the stage now
22:04
Speaker 1: that you get the drone out and about and use
22:07
Speaker 1: it a wee bit to save yourself a bit of time,
22:09
Speaker 1: or it's got its place where you need to use it?
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Speaker 4: It's where you need to use it. I had it
22:13
Speaker 4: out a week ago. I just wanted to count hoggets
22:17
Speaker 4: in each paddock to sort of get my balance right
22:19
Speaker 4: now that they're finished, so I used it that day
22:21
Speaker 4: to count what was in each paddock, so it was
22:23
Speaker 4: quite handy for that. Someone had suggested taking a photo
22:26
Speaker 4: and getting AI to count them all for me, but
22:28
Speaker 4: I chipped away and counted them, and it worked quite
22:31
Speaker 4: good for that. But other than that, I haven't had
22:33
Speaker 4: out for anything just yet. I'm sure there'll be some
22:35
Speaker 4: jobs pop up that'll be handy for.
22:37
Speaker 1: It sounds ridiculous and obscene, but that's pretty much the
22:40
Speaker 1: way that we're looking now, is using AI for doing
22:42
Speaker 1: things like that. So I suppose if it's to your benefit,
22:45
Speaker 1: all power.
22:46
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, at the end of the day, that's all
22:48
Speaker 4: just tools, and it's how you use them. They're no
22:50
Speaker 4: different to a hammer or a saw or... You know,
22:52
Speaker 4: it's how you use it. It's all, you know, if
22:54
Speaker 4: you can find a way for it to benefit your system,
22:56
Speaker 4: it's well worth using.
22:58
Speaker 1: And you're a fan of mob stocking as well with
23:01
Speaker 1: the ewes and lambs. Yep.
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Speaker 4: So, yeah, I bang three or four mobs together for
23:07
Speaker 4: tailing and then on they just stay in their mobs and, yeah,
23:11
Speaker 4: they move around those few paddocks. Yeah, moved on every three, four,
23:16
Speaker 4: five days, been outside the paddock and, yeah, I think
23:20
Speaker 4: everything's got around an 18-day lapse. So, yeah, it gets
23:23
Speaker 4: that grass growing back up and you've got your chicories
23:25
Speaker 4: and your plantains in there. It gives them all a
23:28
Speaker 4: chance to sprout back up and, yeah, works out well.
23:32
Speaker 4: The lambs seem to get used to getting moved then,
23:34
Speaker 4: so come weaning time they're a lot easier to move
23:37
Speaker 4: through gateways and whatnot.
23:39
Speaker 1: Is that the main reason for doing it, just to
23:41
Speaker 1: control the feed?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so, I think. I know I get
23:46
Speaker 4: a lot more away off mum just from getting that
23:49
Speaker 4: fresh tucker every few days and getting a fresh new pick.
23:53
Speaker 4: I think it really benefits their growth rates.
23:56
Speaker 1: So when are you hoping to wean?
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Speaker 4: Normally around that second week of December. Get in there,
24:02
Speaker 4: do it over two days and it's pretty simple. I
24:05
Speaker 4: normally work it out to the drench the week after.
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Speaker 4: Just drafting and then wean and she's all done.
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Speaker 1: No drenching on mum beforehand? Well, you'll be doing that shortly,
24:15
Speaker 1: if you were, I suppose.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll probably look at that. Maybe not next week,
24:19
Speaker 4: week after. Get into that. It normally takes about two
24:23
Speaker 4: or three days, yeah.
24:24
Speaker 1: Hey, the ABs over there, they've got Scotland. The irony
24:28
Speaker 1: of playing at Murrayfield is it's New Zealand rugby's home
24:31
Speaker 1: away from home. We've never lost to them. We've drawn
24:33
Speaker 1: a couple of times. But, yeah, they're looking not too bad.
24:37
Speaker 1: They're starting to come together a bit better, I reckon.
24:40
Speaker 4: Yeah, they are, aren't they? Those tests against Australia just
24:43
Speaker 4: showed how good we are. Yeah, we might have lost
24:46
Speaker 4: that series in South Africa, but I think we've learned
24:49
Speaker 4: a lot from it and we'll grow a lot from it.
24:51
Speaker 4: You look at the guys we've got out injured and
24:52
Speaker 4: we've got the second or third-ranked guys in there now
24:56
Speaker 4: and they're performing as good as those top guys. They're
24:59
Speaker 4: going to have a bit of a headache next year
25:00
Speaker 4: when they've got to select the 33-man squad for the
25:02
Speaker 4: World Cup. There's going to be some top blokes missing out,
25:06
Speaker 4: aren't they?
25:07
Speaker 1: Well, you think back to Scott Robertson, he always talked
25:10
Speaker 1: about a three-deep philosophy, three players to go into each position.
25:13
Speaker 1: And like Sir Ethan DeGroote incumbent Lou said at the moment,
25:17
Speaker 1: he might have a bit of a battle on his
25:18
Speaker 1: hands by the sounds of it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I've still got Tamati Williams to come back yet. Yeah.
25:23
Speaker 4: They're definitely going to be nipping at Ethan's heels, so
25:26
Speaker 4: he's going to have to keep performing, isn't he?
25:29
Speaker 1: Let's be honest, as long as we beat the Poms,
25:31
Speaker 1: we'll be happy.
25:32
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
25:34
Speaker 1: Hey, good on you, Howdy. We'll let you crank the
25:35
Speaker 1: iron horse back out and let you get back into it, mate.
25:38
Speaker 1: Always good to catch up.
25:39
Speaker 4: Cheers, Andy. Thank you.
25:43
Speaker 1: Brendan Howden over at Benmore. You're listening to The Muster.
25:46
Speaker 1: Before the end of the hour, our resident sporting guru,
25:48
Speaker 1: Nathan Burden, following the Tour of Southland, but up next,
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Speaker 1: Mick Withers, talking about the young auctioneer of the year competition.
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Speaker 5: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: This is the muster on Hakanui. Mick Withers is one
26:16
Speaker 1: of the organisers of the New Zealand Young Auctioneer of
26:20
Speaker 1: the Year competition, which happened on Tuesday in Christchurch. Now,
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Speaker 1: we had Elliot Wanderer on the programme last week. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Mick's going to give us a bit of a rundown
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Speaker 1: on the competition and just the life of an auctioneer
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Speaker 1: as such. Good afternoon, Mick, and welcome to the muster.
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Speaker 6: Good afternoon. It's really good, thank you.
26:40
Speaker 1: Firstly, is there a congratulations being made a life member
26:44
Speaker 1: for New Zealand Young Auctioneer Society? That's quite an accolade.
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Speaker 6: Oh, it was out of the blue really. I had no, yeah,
26:51
Speaker 6: absolutely no idea that was going to happen, the buggers.
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Speaker 6: But no, I'm very proud and humbled.
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Speaker 1: You work for Rural Livestock based up there in Canterbury,
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Speaker 1: but in being involved with the auctioneering scene as such,
27:03
Speaker 1: what's your back story, mate?
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Speaker 6: Oh, I started with auctioneering with with rural livestock back
27:08
Speaker 6: in the 90s. That's a long time ago, isn't it?
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Speaker 6: So I've been auctioning for them for 30-odd years and
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Speaker 6: set up the Young Auctioneers competition 15 years ago.
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Speaker 1: Did you find there was a real niche out there
27:23
Speaker 1: for people to come and put their skills to the test?
27:25
Speaker 1: Was there the appetite as such?
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Speaker 6: Oh, 100%. I think that first year, we had 13
27:30
Speaker 6: competitors in our first year, which really surprised me. But
27:36
Speaker 6: it's really morphed into something quite significant now over the years.
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Speaker 1: So how do you become an auctioneer? You're a young
27:43
Speaker 1: person getting into the stock selling game or just anything
27:47
Speaker 1: in general that involves live bidding. What makes a good auctioneer?
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Speaker 6: It's a $ 100, 000 question, really. Well, getting into it, you've
27:57
Speaker 6: really got to show this interest for a start. There's
28:00
Speaker 6: no point in having a go if you're not really...
28:03
Speaker 6: wholeheartedly believe in yourself, really. So, you know, you're on
28:08
Speaker 6: stage as a thing and you're at the front of
28:10
Speaker 6: your company. So I guess you go along and you
28:13
Speaker 6: watch other auctioneers and you pick up what they're saying
28:16
Speaker 6: and why they're saying it. And then you get in
28:20
Speaker 6: your car and you practice and you practice in front
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Speaker 6: of a mirror and there's a lot of work that
28:24
Speaker 6: goes into it. It's the most frightening thing you'll ever
28:26
Speaker 6: do is your first auction.
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Speaker 1: But they're encouraged to get up there straight away when
28:32
Speaker 1: they get into the role, or it's like a mentorship programme?
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Speaker 6: In the day, it was just thrown in the deep end,
28:38
Speaker 6: but I think these days we try to do a
28:41
Speaker 6: bit more mentoring around it. You really let loose and
28:45
Speaker 6: then decide whether you have an aptitude for it or not.
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Speaker 1: And I suppose being, well, when you got into the
28:51
Speaker 1: game back in the 90s, being a stock agent, it
28:53
Speaker 1: was a ruthless game. You had no cell phones. You
28:56
Speaker 1: went home and lived on the landline for about two
28:58
Speaker 1: or three hours a night.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, certainly, that's the interesting thing, is your deals were
29:03
Speaker 6: done at night and what have you, and so, you know,
29:06
Speaker 6: organising transport and getting space and all those sort of things,
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Speaker 6: it was a lot to the phone, for sure.
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Speaker 1: Now, Dylan Ford, he won the prize proper on Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: It was his fifth attempt.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I thought it was his fifth.
29:24
Speaker 1: That's all about perseverance, I suppose.
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Speaker 6: Oh, absolutely, and I think, yeah, Dylan's won it and
29:29
Speaker 6: he's a totally different auctioneer to what he was even
29:33
Speaker 6: three years ago. He's worked really hard. He's really given
29:36
Speaker 6: it a lot. And he's the sort of fellow who's
29:38
Speaker 6: always asked for feedback and takes constructive criticism well. And
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Speaker 6: the thing about it is there's sort of two different
29:48
Speaker 6: dynamics to the auctioneering competition. It's the physical auctioneering itself,
29:53
Speaker 6: but they also put through an interview process with the
29:56
Speaker 6: judges which covers all theory and what have you. And
29:59
Speaker 6: that's often what trips young auctioneers up. They don't understand
30:03
Speaker 6: fully the terms and conditions of the sale. So, yeah,
30:08
Speaker 6: it's associational.
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Speaker 1: So it's not just getting up there and rattling off
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Speaker 1: the numbers and closing a deal. It's the whole thing.
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Speaker 2: No, no.
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Speaker 6: So they've got to go through and understand where you
30:18
Speaker 6: stand legally as an auctioneer, how to settle disputes and
30:22
Speaker 6: how to... and what is expected of you as an auctioneer.
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Speaker 1: Now, they had training on Monday, voice coaching, which is
30:29
Speaker 1: something I'm aware of, if the days can pass. Like, manalathabaza, manalithivizi,
30:34
Speaker 1: and all these stupid things to loosen up the tones. Yeah, exactly.
30:38
Speaker 1: How did they find that? That can be intimidating.
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Speaker 6: Oh, absolutely. And I was really concerned as to how
30:44
Speaker 6: it was going to go, because it's quite a daunting thing.
30:47
Speaker 6: And you sort of open yourself up to all your colleagues.
30:50
Speaker 6: And so they happened to do that. I wasn't there,
30:54
Speaker 6: so I don't know exactly what they did, but that
30:56
Speaker 6: went off really well, and every guy I spoke to
30:59
Speaker 6: just thought it was so enlightening and informative. So, yeah,
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Speaker 6: we really hit the nail on the head on that one.
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Speaker 1: Now, Mick, there was a change this year with the
31:09
Speaker 1: running of the competition now being structured as an incorporated society,
31:13
Speaker 1: and you've got a committee of young people involved as well.
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Speaker 1: So what does this mean for the competition going forward?
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Speaker 6: I think just.
31:23
Speaker 6: It's really interesting when you bring that up because I
31:25
Speaker 6: think it's given it a real professional edge that it
31:28
Speaker 6: hasn't had in the past. And I've got these young
31:30
Speaker 6: guys who are full of enthusiasm and just want to
31:33
Speaker 6: see it succeed. And they've come to me on their
31:36
Speaker 6: own back sort of thing. I haven't asked them to
31:38
Speaker 6: do it. They've said, look, we want to be part
31:40
Speaker 6: of this going forward. So which is really heartening for me.
31:43
Speaker 6: That means I can step back a bit now. But
31:46
Speaker 6: it's just really added a lot of professionalism to the show.
31:49
Speaker 1: But you've got to be pretty chuffed at the way
31:51
Speaker 1: the competition's evolved, though, when you sit back and just
31:53
Speaker 1: have a bit of an afterglow.
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Speaker 6: Well, I look back when we started, we had mock
31:57
Speaker 6: auctions and two days of wondering what the hell's going
32:01
Speaker 6: to happen next sort of thing, and now it's just
32:03
Speaker 6: got this sort of, this happens, this happens, this happens,
32:06
Speaker 6: and it's not by accident anymore. It's pretty smart, pretty operative,
32:13
Speaker 6: but it's quite a structured event now.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's got to the stage now. There is now
32:17
Speaker 1: the North Island versus South Island, the grey-hatted shield on
32:20
Speaker 1: the line, which you're calling the Ramfriley Shield of Young Auctioneering.
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Speaker 6: That's right, yeah, cheeky beggars. Yeah, no, I think it's
32:27
Speaker 6: a really nice take because it's come about going to
32:31
Speaker 6: Australia where at their Young Auctioneers they have an interstate
32:36
Speaker 6: competition as well. And so these boys have been over
32:40
Speaker 6: there and seen that and thought, well, this will be
32:42
Speaker 6: quite fun to bring back to our competition, so... Yeah,
32:45
Speaker 6: for them it was bloody good.
32:46
Speaker 1: Because I've seen online as well, over in the States,
32:49
Speaker 1: they have actual auctioneering schools.
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Speaker 6: Yes, so in Australia they've been doing that for years
32:57
Speaker 6: and to compete in their competition you actually have to
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Speaker 6: attend two schools a year, I think it is. So
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Speaker 6: we are in the throes of doing that here in
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Speaker 6: New Zealand. So we have a school in the north
33:09
Speaker 6: and a school in the south. It's a proposition we're
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Speaker 6: putting to the New Zealand Stock and Station Agents Association.
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Speaker 6: I might let the cat out of the bag, but
33:16
Speaker 6: we want to be able to replicate what we've done
33:19
Speaker 6: for the young guys here to the guys out in
33:22
Speaker 6: the field who are not competitors. They might be too
33:26
Speaker 6: old to be in our competition, but we feel we've
33:29
Speaker 6: still got something to offer them, and I think the
33:31
Speaker 6: voice coaching is one of them, and the other is
33:34
Speaker 6: help from senior auctioneers.
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Speaker 2: Good on you, Mick.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for your time this afternoon. Congratulations on the accolade
33:40
Speaker 1: this week, too. I've enjoyed the chat.
33:41
Speaker 6: Thanks very much. And I appreciate the interest in our
33:44
Speaker 6: competition that means a lot.
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Speaker 1: Mick Withers, recently made a life member of the New
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Speaker 1: Zealand Young Auctioneer Society about the Young Auctioneer of the Year,
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Speaker 1: which happened in Christchurch this week. Nathan Burden's up next.
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Speaker 1: If you'd like.
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Speaker 7: Making love at midnight....
34:16
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the muster. Our resident sporting guru is
34:19
Speaker 1: Nathan Burden. He's keenly following the SBS Bank Tour of
34:22
Speaker 1: Southland this week in its 70th edition. Good afternoon, Nathan.
34:26
Speaker 1: How's it all going?
34:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, very good, mate. Yeah, it's been a good week
34:29
Speaker 2: so far. Some hard and fast racing around the roads
34:33
Speaker 2: of Southland, including obviously yesterday with the the big queen
34:37
Speaker 2: stage up with the Remarkables hill climb, which Matthew Wilson
34:41
Speaker 2: sort of took control of the race with an amazing
34:44
Speaker 2: climb up that 6k climb. So yeah, pretty good week.
34:47
Speaker 1: I don't want to jinx the weather, but they've had
34:49
Speaker 1: it too easy with all this blue sky and not
34:51
Speaker 1: really many wind, not much wind.
34:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, kind of gnarly the first couple of days.
34:55
Speaker 2: But then, yeah, you're right, mate, it has sort of
34:58
Speaker 2: evened out a bit. And especially today, there's really not
35:00
Speaker 2: enough wind to sort of break that peloton up and
35:03
Speaker 2: I'm not exactly sure what the average speed was for
35:06
Speaker 2: the first hour or so of this stage, but it
35:08
Speaker 2: would have been pretty quick. It would have been close
35:10
Speaker 2: to 50k an hour, I'm guessing. And, you know, that's
35:13
Speaker 2: sort of knocked out a fair bit of this 180k
35:16
Speaker 2: stage to Lumsden.
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Speaker 1: Is it fair to say that this tour will be
35:20
Speaker 1: one of the quicker ones?
35:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it would be fair to say. Actually,
35:24
Speaker 2: it would be interesting to look at those average speeds
35:27
Speaker 2: by the end of the week, and especially it is
35:29
Speaker 2: probably one of the younger tours that we've had a
35:31
Speaker 2: lot of under-23 riders on. and a lot of riders
35:34
Speaker 2: having their first go at an SPS Bank Tour of
35:35
Speaker 2: Southland this week, so yeah, it will definitely be one
35:39
Speaker 2: of the quicker ones.
35:40
Speaker 1: So what's the feedback from the riders so far?
35:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've been enjoying it. I'm not sure, I'm currently
35:48
Speaker 2: sitting on a, actually just watching, as we speak, I'll
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Speaker 2: take you live into the tour, we've got a group
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Speaker 2: of four riders who have managed to break away, which is,
35:56
Speaker 2: they will have been, you know, there's been numerous breaks
35:58
Speaker 2: that have been trying to get away without this win,
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Speaker 2: but they've just headed away, we're sitting on a A
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Speaker 2: little bit of road work, about one and a half
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Speaker 2: K of gravel between Ojai and Nightcaps. And so some
36:10
Speaker 2: of these riders who actually ride gravel professionally in the
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Speaker 2: States and that sort of thing, they'll be loving it.
36:15
Speaker 2: But some of the guys in the peloton won't be
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Speaker 2: loving it so much. And as we speak, I can
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Speaker 2: just see the peloton in the distance. So that breakaway
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Speaker 2: probably opened up a lead of about 30 to 40 seconds.
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Speaker 1: So what's your role with the tour as such? Because
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Speaker 1: we talked about this last week but it's interesting and
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Speaker 1: full credit to you guys, there's been a lot of
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Speaker 1: coverage in the mainstream media regarding the event.
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Speaker 2: Yeah and I think a big part of this week
36:37
Speaker 2: is about maximising that exposure for Southland and the various sponsors.
36:41
Speaker 2: It takes a lot of money to make this race
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Speaker 2: happen so it's all about getting the name of the
36:48
Speaker 2: tour out there and the various sponsors that support it
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Speaker 2: and giving them as much reach as possible so It's
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Speaker 2: all about the radio. It's all about the TV, the newspaper.
36:59
Speaker 2: We get kinetic media come along and do a great
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Speaker 2: job of putting together a 30-minute show each night. So
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Speaker 2: that's on Tour of Southland's YouTube channel and also on
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Speaker 2: TVNZ +. Yeah, and social media is obviously a big
37:12
Speaker 2: part of it. These days, when I look at the
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Speaker 2: reach that this event gets on social media across Instagram
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Speaker 2: and Facebook, and it's huge. There's people all over the
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Speaker 2: world that like to tune in and see the images
37:23
Speaker 2: that come from this event.
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Speaker 1: There's a real camaraderie amongst the press and everybody who's following?
37:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a real team effort. It's a big job to...
37:34
Speaker 2: Jumping back in the car. It's a big job to
37:38
Speaker 2: get safely. You know, it's all about safety, and everyone's
37:41
Speaker 2: sort of got to look after themselves and look after
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Speaker 2: each other to make sure that we all get to
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Speaker 2: the finish line in Gala Street on Saturday afternoon in
37:48
Speaker 2: one piece. So, yeah, everyone works together really well.
37:52
Speaker 1: And on the Saturday or Sunday when the event finishes,
37:55
Speaker 1: I remember in years gone past, former cameraman Jamie Burrett,
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Speaker 1: they used to turn up at his place for a bonfire.
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Speaker 1: What do they do these days?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there is talk of the unofficial stage nine. I
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Speaker 2: think as a media person, it's good to sort of
38:12
Speaker 2: stay awake. So some things it's better to know a
38:14
Speaker 2: little bit less about, to be fair.
38:16
Speaker 1: What's it like with the cyclists? I mean, a lot
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Speaker 1: of them coming to Southland for the first time. You
38:21
Speaker 1: get to meet some real characters.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that's one of the things that
38:25
Speaker 2: I've always enjoyed about covering cycling as a sport. You know,
38:30
Speaker 2: it is one of those sports that either, I don't
38:31
Speaker 2: know if it sort of attracts people with special character
38:35
Speaker 2: or it brings the best in character out of these guys.
38:39
Speaker 2: But yeah, you definitely get some interesting individuals that come
38:41
Speaker 2: down and it's just such a hard and demanding thing
38:46
Speaker 2: sort of sport, it requires a huge amount of resilience
38:50
Speaker 2: and you end up with some great stories.
38:53
Speaker 1: Are we starting to see a couple of clear names
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Speaker 1: break away at the top?
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Speaker 2: I think Matthew Wilson's ride up to up the remarks yesterday,
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Speaker 2: that was such a dominant performance. If you get a
39:05
Speaker 2: chance to have a look at the TV coverage of
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Speaker 2: that and you see him jump away at the base
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Speaker 2: of that climb was just an absolute legend sort of
39:12
Speaker 2: an effort and he showed a real clean pair of
39:14
Speaker 2: heels And I'd say, you know, touch wood, if he
39:19
Speaker 2: can stay nice and safe today, he won't be doing
39:22
Speaker 2: much work, if anything, on today's stage. And he'll be
39:25
Speaker 2: trying to leave himself pretty fresh. If people think back
39:27
Speaker 2: to January, he actually lost the blood. stage to Josh
39:32
Speaker 2: Burnett in a photo finish, which was probably one of
39:35
Speaker 2: the best finishes we've ever seen on this race. And
39:39
Speaker 2: so Matthew, he'll be hoping for a bit of a
39:42
Speaker 2: redemption from what happened in January. And I'd say if
39:46
Speaker 2: he can get that done, then he probably, he'll be
39:47
Speaker 2: steering down the barrel of his first Tour of Southland victory.
39:51
Speaker 1: How's the community buy-in been for the week?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I think one of the things from January
39:57
Speaker 2: we really missed was having the schools out. And so
40:01
Speaker 2: that's been awesome to have the schools back involved. And
40:05
Speaker 2: the riders absolutely love it. You know, they've spent a
40:07
Speaker 2: lot of time training in the middle of nowhere. Lots
40:12
Speaker 2: of lonely hours. So they love coming down to Southland
40:14
Speaker 2: and getting cheered as they go through all the little
40:16
Speaker 2: towns past the little farms and that sort of thing.
40:19
Speaker 2: We did stop at Gropers Bush, the community there. They
40:22
Speaker 2: do a great job of coming out and putting a
40:24
Speaker 2: morning tee shout on and cheering on the riders. So
40:28
Speaker 2: that's something that they absolutely love.
40:31
Speaker 1: And, of course, the vehicle you're in and the same
40:35
Speaker 1: people that you catch up with every year, normally it's
40:37
Speaker 1: either biscuits or cheese that you're salivating over for the week.
40:41
Speaker 1: What is it this time?
40:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, we get very well hosted by SBS Bank
40:46
Speaker 2: Partnership Manager Andrew Morton, and, yeah, there's been possibly a
40:50
Speaker 2: little bit too much cheese consumed during the week so far. But, yeah,
40:55
Speaker 2: it's a lovely... I think we've got a bit of
40:57
Speaker 2: cumin and some crackers to... to get through this afternoon
41:01
Speaker 2: before we get to the stage finish in Lumsden. So
41:03
Speaker 2: looking forward to that.
41:04
Speaker 1: The life and times of Nathan Burrett are not for
41:06
Speaker 1: the weak-hearted. Good on you, Nathan. This tour is something
41:08
Speaker 1: that continues to be part of Southern Fabric. Keep up
41:11
Speaker 1: the great work. Lovely.
41:12
Speaker 2: Thanks, mate.
41:16
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41:21
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41:27
Speaker 1: Father Richards offers an altar call inviting anyone who needs
41:30
Speaker 1: prayer to come forward. Last week he was surprised to
41:33
Speaker 1: see Lee come up for a local service. Brother Lee,
41:37
Speaker 1: what do you need a prayer for today, he asked.
41:39
Speaker 1: My hearing, Lee answered quietly. Father Richers placed his hands
41:43
Speaker 1: on either side of Lee's head and prayed a prayer,
41:45
Speaker 1: so beautiful that surely the angels in heaven must have
41:48
Speaker 1: been crying. It was so profound that there were only
41:51
Speaker 1: a few dry tears left in the congregation. When he finished,
41:54
Speaker 1: Father Richers removed his hands from Lee's ears and bellowed. So,
41:57
Speaker 1: Brother Lee, tell the congregation how your hearing is now.
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Speaker 1: Lee answered, I don't know, Father. It's not till next Tuesday.
42:03
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42:08
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42:20
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42:22
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42:32
Speaker 4: Hey, well, all right, sir, here we go there, and
42:33
Speaker 4: what are they going to give for?
42:35
Speaker 1: Stock selling action comes courtesy of PGG Rights, and Andrew
42:38
Speaker 1: Martin's on the line to give us a rundown on
42:40
Speaker 1: the Charlton sale, which occurred this morning. Good afternoon, sir.
42:43
Speaker 1: How do we go? Afternoon, Andy.
42:46
Speaker 7: Yeah, just pretty much par for the course with previous weeks.
42:53
Speaker 7: Moderate sale, medium-sized sale, not big, not small. No ewes
42:59
Speaker 7: and lambs all counted in this week. continuing to get in, uh,
43:03
Speaker 7: last season's lambs and, and some wet dry ewes. I'll
43:07
Speaker 7: run through those old season lamb prices. The, um, the
43:11
Speaker 7: bottom cuts of those are making $ 180 through to $ 200.
43:15
Speaker 7: Second drafting's at $ 220 through to $ 270. Third cut drafting's
43:20
Speaker 7: at $ 280 through to $ 300. And anything north of $ 300
43:24
Speaker 7: is a.
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Speaker 4: Very big lamb.
43:26
Speaker 7: And, um, Those heavy, heavy lambs are ranging from $ 300
43:30
Speaker 7: plus through to $ 450 today. Anything that's cut its two
43:37
Speaker 7: adult teeth is discounted a bit, and the range on
43:41
Speaker 7: those is $ 180 through to about $ 240. Into those wet-dry ewes,
43:44
Speaker 7: bottom draughtings of those are at $ 170 through to $ 220.
43:47
Speaker 7: Medium draughtings at $ 240 through to $ 280. with the better
43:57
Speaker 7: end of the wet-dry ewes at $ 290 through to a
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Speaker 7: high of $ 340. Not much in the way of sales
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Speaker 7: coming up in the interim, but there will be a
44:09
Speaker 7: few spring cattle sales towards the end of the month
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Speaker 7: at both Lawville and Charlton. I think our weaner calf
44:16
Speaker 7: sales will start at Lawville towards the end of the
44:18
Speaker 7: month also, and a couple of... A couple of clearing
44:23
Speaker 7: sails throughout the month, and I believe our ramp sails
44:26
Speaker 7: start towards the end of the month of November as well.
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Speaker 7: Reporting for Pitchergear, I'm Tom Andrew.